Ben Bernanke said...

All we can try to do is try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand.

I think everything in the bill is basically fine except for getting rid of this exemption for monetary policy deliberati...

Broadly speaking, fiscal policy both at the Federal and the State and local level is now contractionary.

Dodd-Frank has a pretty comprehensive strategy for addressing too-big-to-fail.