Extended unemployment insurance benefits provided during the economic downturn have fostered economic stability.
I would urge Congress to take every step possible to avoid defaulting on the debt or creating even any significant probability of defaulting...
I think it would be a calamitous outcome. It would create a very severe financial shock that would have effects not only to the U.S. economy...
It would be a self-inflicted wound, I would say.
Well, my first best is that the debt limit gets increased promptly and that we have a real solution for our longer-term fiscal problems.
This would be very bad for jobs.
I think it would, but as Senator Corker pointed out, or Senator Vitter, the other part of this is we also want to make substantial progress ...
I think they view this whole situation... as being a political issue and not an economic issue.
We need to do something big, strong.
The Federal Reserve together with other agencies has imposed an order on the servicers to fix up their act and to go back and look at every ...
I think it is really a political issue as much as an economic issue.