Scott Garrett: “It is absolutely critical that we address our data and regulatory framework around capital formation.”

First, do no harm.

Accurate and transparent financial statements are absolutely critical to maintaining investor confidence in our markets.

So, if your policies, as Ben Bernanke indicated it does and you are nodding your head as well, benefits the stock market, raises asset prices, who are you benefiting? The rich. Who are you hurting? The poor.

In June of this year, after 81 years of doling out taxpayer-funded welfare for mega-corporations, the American people said enough and Congress let the Export-Import Bank expire. Yet today, through a little-known and little-used legislative…