"We've been jumping from program to program, and if there is an infinite number of things we can do with money, there is a need for an infinite amount of money," said Ellen Seidman, director of the New America Foundation's Financial Services and Education Project and a former director of the Office of Thrift Supervision. "If you keep expanding the scope of what it is you are going to do with the money, you keep expanding your need for money." LINK (subscription required)

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