Chris Dodd: “I think, frankly, that the Syrians share that objective. I don't think their interest, as they perceive it, is the same.”

The truth is that the catastrophe was years in the making caused by regulatory negligence and Wall Street gambling.

There's nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest.

In fact, it was the uncertainty inherent in a nontransparent and reckless financial system that made Dodd-Frank necessary in the first place.

Maybe we ought to be spending a little more time looking at the relationships at that level.