Ben Bernanke actually said...

if we are going to have a strong recovery, it has to be on the back of a stabilization of the financial system

as we look at regulatory reform, we need to ask the question, are all the sectors of the economy that need oversight, are they being watched...

We got involved in them, frankly, because there is no clear resolution authority, in the United States for dealing with systemically critica...

So the purpose of the test is to try to ensure that even in a bad scenario, banks will have enough capital.