Robert Menendez actually said...

this is a huge issue, and it again goes to the integrity of our financial system, and the lack of faith, I think, increasingly that the Amer...

banks like Barclays were trying to profit from the LIBOR manipulation, but that profit came not at, you know--actually, it came at the expen...

we are talking about billions in effect, if not trillions in effect.

FIRPTA is an idea whose time has come and gone, and, were it fiscally feasible, should be abandoned in its entirety.