Secretary Geithner wrote a nice little article in The Wall Street Journal a couple of months ago that talked about the amnesia of people who forget how we got to where we are.
Michael Capuano
The Public Record
I don't think anyone would suggest that Dodd-Frank was a perfect bill, certainly not by my measure, but perfection is really never the measure of anything.
I can't help myself. You do realize that your company is named after a place where one of the most--not devastating--broad-based regulations in history came out of.
I have all of my family's personal, business, and campaign funds in small banks. I don't have any--not one penny that I have control over is in a large bank.
If this law prevents a similar financial crisis from occurring it would actually save American households approximately $22.4 billion per page.
I am always struck by the ability of my Republican colleagues to engage in a kind of duality of the mind with regard to Federal spending.
It does appear that when Mr. Bush had an important economic appointment to make, he said, get me the usual suspect, which was Chairman Bernanke.
I am proud of those. While we can make them more efficient, I am not prepared to maintain more and more military spending at their expense.
The most important, according to the way it is presented here, is what is going on in Europe.
thank you for not giving up, thank you for not withering under this. We still need you and the Fed to be actively involved, even if there are things you do with which I disagree.





