The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess in the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled semiannual testimony on the Federal Reserve supervision and regulation of Financial System. I now recognize myself for three minutes to give an opening statement. As we all know the dodd frank act vastly increased the powers of the fed way beyond has traditional Monetary Policy responsibilities. The act has made the fed omnipotent but cannot make it omniscient. No act can. Through the exercise of socalled heightened prudential standards the fed can control the largest Financial Institutions in our economy. Former fed governor kevin warsh recently wrote Central Bank Power is permissible in a democracy only when its scope limited, its track record strong and accountable assured. None of that do we observe today. Where his feds omnipotents has taken us . The big banks are bigger, Economic Growth lags and theres scant evidence our economy i
Accountable. This hearing is about three hours. [ room noise ]. The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess in the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled semiannual testimony on the Federal Reserve supervision and regulation of Financial System. I now recognize myself for three minutes to give an opening statement. As we all know the dodd frank act vastly increased the powers of the fed way beyond has traditional Monetary Policy responsibilities. The act has made the fed omnipotent but cannot make it omniscient. No act can. Through the exercise of socalled heightened prudential standards the fed can control the largest Financial Institutions in our economy. Former fed governor kevin warsh recently wrote Central Bank Power is permissible in a democracy only when its scope limited, its track record strong and accountable assured. None of that do we observe today. Where his feds omnipotents has taken us . The big banks are bigg
That demand is waning in Many Industries just when the fed wants to tighten. Hence while we ultimately drifted lower again today, dow dipping 22 points, nasdaq advancing just 0. 36 . Thank you, apple, for that. But if demand is just fine, thank you, not falling off a cliff, then we can tough this market out together. Not everyone agrees. For example, at the alpha conference yesterday, the vast majority of speakers seemed to write off the prospect of any robust growth in demand either here or worldwide. If you had to boil down the barest thesis, it will go like this. Central bankers are out of bullets. Nothings working. Demands declining. So were headed into the unknown, and lurking in the unknown is a terrible abyss of losses for anyone who owns anything. Stocks, bonds, you name it. While i have a macroworld view, im whats known as a bottoms up guy, a person who looks at demand company by company and makes an aggregate case based on what i can put together. Now, i admit that the demand
Dipping 22 points, nasdaq advancing just 0. 36 . Thank you, apple, for that. But if demand is just fine, thank you, not falling off a cliff, then we can tough this market out together. Not everyone agrees. For example, at the alpha conference yesterday, the vast majority of speakers seemed to write off the prospect of any robust growth in demand either here or worldwide. If you had to boil down the barest thesis, it will go like this. Central bankers are out of bullets. Nothings working. Demands declining. So were headed into the unknown, and lurking in the unknown is a terrible abyss of losses for anyone who owns anything. Stocks, bonds, you name it. Up guy, a person who looks at demand company by company and makes an aggregate case based on what i can put together. Now, i admit that the demand side worldwide is worry some, not dangerous, but worrisome. What we saw in 2007, that was dangerous when Central Banks generated Systemic Risk by tightening into an economic collapse. We dont s
The meeting is coming to order and were going to declare the recess at any time and its called sem annual system on the sup super vision and i recognize myself for three minutes to give an opening statement. As we know the act decreased way beyond the monetary responsibilities. The act is made the fed omnipotent. Through the exercise of the heightened standards the fed can control the largest Financial Institutions in our economy. Former fed governor kevin warsh wrote that Central Bank Power is premisable when the scope is limited and the track record strong and the aaccount blt assured. None of that do we observe today where as the feds has taken us and the big banks are now bigger and the small banks are fewer and the Economic Growth lags and theres evidence that the economy is more stable. Two mu fed authorities granted under dod dx frank have been problematic. The see kra si make it impossible to measure the over sight or the integrity of the test findings. As columbia has testifie