Bill Foster: “It's rare that Congress can do something that will cost negative money and save thousands of lives, but this is…”

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

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

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.

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----