John C. Coffee: “We believe that leapfrogging rulemakings whose deadlines are months away ahead of rulemakings whose deadlines are months…”

Second, we must strengthen what I will call the financial infrastructure--the systems, rules, and conventions that govern trading, payment, clearing, and settlement in financial markets--to ensure that it will perform well under stress.

We must not let history repeat itself by creating more regulatory black holes and exposing investors to unacceptable levels of risk and outright fraud.

First, I believe the greatest enemy of job creation today is not overregulation, but the loss of investor confidence.

The biggest problems in our financial economy are the problems associated with systemic risk.