Ben Bernanke actually said...

the unemployment rate right now is not a very good measure by itself of the economy.

You have to have long-term structural changes in the entitlement programs.

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

The crisis was an enormous waste of resources, and unsafe practices by large financial institutions pose a risk not just to themselves but t...