Quote of the Day

"We have been through more tests and thorough exams than any college student over the past four years"
-- Richard Hunt, CEO of Consumer Bankers Association, on Sen. Elizabeth Warren's tough questioning

While many Wall Street witnesses today were complaining (the polite term for "whining") about their experience at the Senate hearing dealing with banking expert Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), it's important that a perspective be kept for dismissive comments like Mr. Hunt's --

When a college student doesn't do well on all those exams, he could get a D.  When banks do poorly, tens of thousands of families lose their homes and the U.S. economy collapses.