09/22/2009
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"This hearing is not about assigning cause. We don't have the slightest idea. Nobody could possibly know."
"Even if we give Mr. Rogoff the kind of perhaps authority he ought to have, I can tell you without fear of contradiction--leave aside the recession we are in, let's suppose we are in the false boom eco..."
"What Federal law prohibits you from acting?"
"Well, I mean, you would maintain it. Do you have any staff?"