a.p. morgan recently a nounced a $2 billion trading loss. >> people look what happened with jpmorgan and say here's a company that made a stupid decision and did something dumb and lost money and fired the people that were responsible. this is the market at work. this is how it's supposed to happen. why does government need to play a role? >> to some extent that's true, and i take some credit for it. if this had happened five years ago, if jpmorgan had lost what appears to be more than $2 billion, you would have seen much more panic in the economy. you would have seen much more concern. what we did in the legislation we passed and through other things was to require the financial institutions be much better capitalized. one of the things that's a result of the government telling them you have to have more capital you would have had otherwise, that helps give people reaassurance. >> this past weekend, congressman barney frank spoke about the over $2 billion loss by jpmorgan chase as well as the st