Bill Foster: “I believe that we have a good tool to prevent identity fraud there in the form of the REAL ID-compliant ID card.”

If you made it anonymous, you would allow Members to sort of probe support for centrist legislation.

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----

I think we should consider adopting this in the coming session of Congress, at least on a temporary basis.

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.