Ted Kaufman: “We are going to stay here as long as it takes to get this information before the public.”

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

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

I do not want a single innocent person to go to jail or be criminally indicted for any reason.

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