Thank you for the invitation to join you this morning. I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you, and I look forward to our discussion. I will spend most of my time speaking about the Fed’s role as a supervisor and regulator of the nation’s banking system, but with the recent Federal Open Market Committee meeting attracting much attention, I will first offer a few words on last week’s monetary policy decision and my thoughts on the outlook for policy going forward. As I am sure you are all aware, the FOMC lowered its target policy rate by 25 basis points last week. I supported this decision. Let me explain my ... (full story)