Kent Conrad: “This credit crunch is real and it is having a ripple effect way beyond what we had seen in the 1982 downturn.”

If you had to reduce it to a word, I would reduce it to 'globalization.'

I am eager to hear from our panelists to get a better sense of all the options they considered and how they reached consensus on the final report.

We owe it to these men and women to strengthen our retirement system.

I would say personally I would not go to a company advising me on wealth management that did not have it because I think whoever is advising me ought to have as their highest responsibility to be giving me advice that is in my interest.