Ben Bernanke said...

Our mission as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability; to foster maximum sustainable g...

We are working hard with our colleagues to put the Volcker rule into place, and that will restrict proprietary trading.

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

Congress, I hope, has the foresight to see that interest rates will not be this low forever.