Thank you so much, Chairman Dorgan, for chairing this, and to our witnesses.
Just to define this, the CSI effect, for everyone, is that juries expect this and, if they do not have it, they may thin...
American households now stand at owing 130 percent of their annual income in total debt.
I have always believed that we need to restore stability in our financial markets, and you have been a leader with that.
And to do that, we have to get the best possible results for the American taxpayers at the lowest cost, and, to me, this...
We are trying to get here, instead of a short-term view of our economy and our business markets, we are trying to get a ...
We want to do it in a prudent way, and we want to do it quickly.
So we are at a 9.4 percent unemployment rate.
When you include the discouraged workers, what is the unemployment rate then?
I think it is a big concern that we keep having that happen.
the companies seem to be--not in every sector, but some of these companies seem to be evening out, or actually seeing so...