On Tuesday, he said the Fed would consider extending its direct lending window to Wall Street companies (aka, primary dealers typically not allowed to borrow directly from the Fed) beyond a mid-September deadline to promote stability, as long as short-term debt markets continue to be severely constrained by the credit crisis.
Hopefully, voters got it right in the mid-term elections, that we are now in one of those long benign periods of financial stability when gridlock is preferable, when government will not need the ability to make quick and decisive responses to unexpected developments.