Ben Bernanke actually said...

The economy needed help from Congress, if not from additional spending on roads and bridges, for example, then at least in areas such as ret...

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.