KEITH J. ROTHFUS: “The Dodd-Frank Act, which was sold as a way to end too-big-to-fail and product consumers when it ends up enshrining is…”

Given this distinction, how will the Fed be tailoring regulations for banks above the $250 billion threshold?

Our financial sector has undergone significant changes in the past few years. We have witnessed a distressing trend of consolidation and closures, driven, in part, by overregulation.

Last year, Congress passed a multi-trillion dollar tax cut for--as you are well aware--and I think the theory behind it is as reported in the press and by some of my colleagues was that it would spur investment and thereby increase hiring…

But some of the data has really come in, and according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wages for most workers, by 80 percent, are actually down since the tax cut passed.