Ben Bernanke said...

forcing these activities out of insured depository institutions would weaken both financial stability and strong prudent...

It was not evident that Section 716 makes the company as a whole safer, and what we do see is that it will likely increa...

As I have mentioned, it is a cost of these policies and it is one that we take very seriously.

I have--you know, it is easy to criticize, but the politics is very difficult.