Ted Kaufman: “As we only begin to climb out of this deep, dark hole, we must not lose sight of the lessons.”

In the words of Ben Bernanke, America was on a course for 'a cataclysm that could have rivaled or surpassed the Great Depression.'

We have developed a cooperation program at the SEC where we can now offer reduced sanctions in exchange for insiders who come forward and provide us with information.

The panic of 2008 has subsided, but it has been replaced by the gnawing pain of countless men and women who can't find work, who can't keep their homes, and who don't know whether their economic story will ever end in recovery.

I think disclosure is really the root of a lot of these problems.