Chris Dodd: “Bernie Madoff stole $50 billion, and maybe more. He stole from individuals, he stole from pensions funds, he stole from…”

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

I'll tell you, one of the things I feel very good about is that there are people like Bob Menendez, who care about these issues.

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.