Ted Kaufman: “Democracy and free markets are the two things that make America.”

It's only fitting that, at a crisis past, a government should set aside its crisis authorities.

A paper tiger that will fall apart the minute it is tested in a real life financial crisis

We have got to get away from this too-big-to-fail. It is bad in so many different ways in terms of the concept.

Widespread cheating and fraud of the sort that drove the speculative housing and derivatives securities bubbles are anathema to public confidence in the markets.