Ben Bernanke: “I would argue that it is not responsible to focus all of the restraint on the very near term and do nothing about the…”

GSE-type organizations are not essential to successful mortgage financing. Indeed, many other industrial countries without GSEs have achieved homeownership rates comparable to that of the United States. One device that has been widely used…

We are working hard with our colleagues to put the Volcker rule into place, and that will restrict proprietary trading.

The economy needed help from Congress--if not from additional spending (on roads and bridges for example), then at least in areas such as retraining unemployed workers.

Congress did not intend for the Federal regulators to discard the State risk-based capital system in favor of a banking capital regime.