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Consent the reading of the names not be necessary. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask consent the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i now prove move to proceed to legislative session. The presiding officer the question is on the motion. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed say noah. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes have it. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Reid i now move to proceed to executive session and calendar number 569. The presiding officer the question is on the motion. All those in favor say aye....

Measures of asset prices and whether or not they appear to be diverging from historical norms. Namely its hard but trying to spot any asset price bubbles that might be emerging. Were looking at leverage, which build up in leverage can be very dangerous to the Financial System and pose stability risks. Were looking at trends in leverage. Were looking at credit growth to see whether or not that has potentially worrisome trends. In addition to that were looking the particularly through the stress tests at Financial Institutions and a low Interest Rate environment. We have to worry about whether o...

Emphasized, and i agree, there is no need to bring down the size of our portfolio in order to tighten Monetary Policy. We have a range of tools that we can use to raise the level of shortterm Interest Rates at the time that the committee deems it appropriate to begin to tighten Monetary Policy conditions. Thats a way off. But we continue to develop tools to make sure that we have an arsenal of tools to be able to, as appropriate, tighten conditions, and not have to do asset sales or manage our portfolio in any way that would be disruptive to financial markets. If i can shift now to the regulat...