Chris Dodd: “Well, it is huge. You go from something that was $100 and it moves to $5 or $10 more, that is value.”

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

There's nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest.

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

I frankly don't see the sovereignty issue as playing a role as an impediment as much as the sheer ability of the cartels to corrupt.