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...mortgages created and peddled and pushed together by Wall Street - the soundness of the underlying loans will prove difficult to ascertain. Many members of Congress want to make sure the government pays fire-sale prices for the assets to protect taxpayers from a big loss, but Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has said that too low a price could hamper the plan's effectiveness at stabilizing the markets...
That obviously impacts the market, and the markets are watching what's going on, and this is a situation where as Ben [Bernanke], Tim [Geithner] and I had talked for months about, there might be a need to do something like this. We discussed the various plans. We've never seen anything like it. There's no model for anything that's been done in the past that would work here...
...just at the New York Fed. He was president of the New York Fed for at least a year, maybe two years, when I was at Goldman Sachs. And he's a very, very, unusually talented young man. And so he understands government and understands markets. And Ben is, although he's got an academic background, very pragmatic, intellectually curious, a courageous guy. And he has-these steps we've taken have been with the Fed authorities, we don't have the authorities here to do some of the things we've done...
...situation before we got into last week and mortgage rates have remained calm. Yeah, I and everyone else placed Fannie and Freddie debt. We didn't create this system and this was a mess that had to be cleaned up. And that is something that I'm proud of, Ben Bernanke's proud of, Jim Lockhardt, the regulator - not proud that the situation happened, but proud that we were able to move quickly enough to use the powers given to us by Congress to stabilize the system...
...Give a Democrat a pen ...," grumbled one Republican Senate staffer Monday as he compared Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's three-page plan to rescue the American financial system to the 40-plus-page proposal they got in response from the Democrats. And by that page ratio alone, it might look to the untrained eye as if Paulson's bailout package was headed for failure, an outcome that spooked markets to another day of stomach-churning 4% and 5% drops on Monday...