Ben Bernanke said...

GSE-type organizations are not essential to successful mortgage financing. Indeed, many other industrial countries witho...

Let me just say that we are quite aware of these portfolios, and we are addressing them in at least two ways.

It is also important, of course, for community banks to be well-capitalized so that they can continue to lend during dif...

The political challenge is to figure out how to do that.