Ben Bernanke: “An increasing share of losses have arisen from prime mortgages that were originally fully documented with significant…”

I do think is very important on both humanitarian and also economic basis.

Making derivatives safer is very important, part of solving Too Big to Fail and preventing another financial crisis.

Lower paid workers, as well as women and minorities, are over-represented in the most affected sectors, and, thus, have borne a disproportionate share of the job and income losses.

Undesirable boom-bust cycles that ultimately lead to both a less stable economy and higher inflation