Bill Foster: “I just want to thank you and, I guess, apologize for the attention deficit disorder of Congress on this sort of issue.”

I guess when things are going well, as they currently are, it is all of our duties to look around the curve and see the risks that keep you up at night.

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

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.

This made the discharge petition much more effective at its intended purpose, which is sort of to operate as a safety valve against, you know, the Speaker's rather dictatorial power.