Emanuel Cleaver actually said...

If we get public-private partnership we don't have to go out and issue bonds or otherwise go into municipal debt.

My experience has been that the public sector has been less than enthusiastic about becoming involved in affordable housing.

there is seemingly always, at least since I have been here, the bubbling up of interest in somehow reinstating the Glass-Steagall provisions...

the fact that we had the 2008 collapse was due in no small part to the failure to separate commercial banking from investment banking.