Chris Dodd: “Well, good. That is very helpful. I live, by the way--you mentioned Nathan Hale. I live in the town of East Haddam, CT…”

It's far more complicated than a common language.

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

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

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