During the question-and-answer session following his prepared remarks to the International Monetary Conference in Atlanta, Ben Bernanke was asked by Jamie Dimon (yes, that Jamie Dimon) about whether the central bank and other regulators have considered how the litany of rules being drawn up as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill interact with each other.

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And yet, if we are to make progress in this area, we must feel comfortable enough with one another, and tolerant enough of each other, to have frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us.

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