Bill Foster: “If you treat capital poorly, it is going to leave. Right now the Europeans are treating capital poorly.”

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

If you conclude, as you are actively studying it, that you need more visibility into certain areas of, particularly nonbank things that may be parts of the chain of contagion, please let us know, because it is our job to avoid the next…

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