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How big when it comes. The dow sold off nearly a quarter of its value, wiped out in a single day. That would be the equivalent of the dow umbling more than 3000 points today. Still back in 1987 every major blip and bump since we always heard the same stock song and dance, didnt we. Cant happen again. Wont happen again. Too many protections now. The Circuit Breakers that were supposed to arrest panic but did not. The curbs that were meant to ease us into a freefall and ease us out of a freefall that could not. Try as we might new gremlins keep testing our might. That is one thing we learn from ...

To like . It is about protecting consumers. Just up here across the street from the Old Executive Office building and i predict it will outgrow its space in a few years. Consumer Protection Bureau is a sovereign entity unlike any bureaucracy that existed before. Not under the control of congress but the fed chairman and board dont have a lot of control over it. The president appoints a single director to overlap the president ial term and they have wide discretion interpreting and enforcing various financial regulations and basically have jurisdiction over everything in the Financial Sector fr...

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] im sorry. If i can ask you all to please stand. Its customary to give the oath before this committee. If you please raise your right hand. View from the testimony youre about to give before the committee will be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god . Let the record reflect that the witnesses all witnesses on the second panel answered in the affirmative. Each witness will begin five minutes for an Opening Statement and of course in a written statement they would like to submit for the record will be admitted with...

I appreciate this conference so much. Marc and joanne formed a long time ago. Ive been helping out since 2002. I find this is one of the greatest meetings of the mind ever conceived when you go from a session on confucius versus saint Thomas Aquinas to a debate between gold and bitcoins in l. A. Debate on minimum wage. We are covering the waterfront in this conference. The debate before is now one of i believe seven to 10 debates of oneonone debates. I kind of think of these in terms of the old william f. Buckleys firing line. Does anybody remember those on tv . Somebody cue the trumpet fanfar...

His time during the war, he said i would lie down on my cot at night and i had a 45 automatic under each side of my pillow in case the japanese called in at night to attack us. And then finally, one marine grunt on one of the islands told this story. He said im a roman catholic, ive been to Holy Communion and all kinds of environments and places in this war but he said i was in the most singular one ive ever seen. He said, i heard that over in the clearing there was going to be a mass said and we could receive communion and he said i went over and he said the priest had his communion set out o...