Bill Foster: “We in a bipartisan way on this Committee have been doing everything we can to try to drag that across the finish line.”

The good news is that macroeconomic policy is working as designed.

Do you remember with AIG, the real problem with AIG falling into bankruptcy is that it would immediately put a bazillion of the European banks into violation of their capital requirements, which was major contagion that----

While the Presidency is often the focus of political pronouncements about macroeconomic conditions, there is no question that it undersells the importance and the independence of the work of the Federal Reserve Board.

I think it is my personal goal to die before we have another financial crisis, and then I will be doing my job well.