Secretary Geithner told the House Financial Services Committee Thursday that it has become clear there is a need for better and tougher regulation in a complex and flawed financial system.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Indications are there will be no agreement on more stimulus packages, general agreement on free trade and against protectionism, agreement on more money for the International Monetary Fund, and there is likely to be some agreement on greater regulation.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

But I think he should have seen it coming,". In congressional testimony, Bernanke has placed much of the blame for the 2008 financial meltdown on lax governmental regulation of banks and other entities as authorized by Congress, rather than the monetary policy he oversaw.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24