there's no question that this is
something sheila bair has
proposed.
the fdic wants to see a prefund.
the treasury would like to see a
postfund.
they'd like to see it come after
the fact.
i want to digress for a second
and say that i hope the reason
that treasury wants a post-fund
is not because in lieu of having
a pre-fund of $50 billion from
these large institutions, they
want to see a bank tax.
as a matter of fact, i'm going
to be surprised if, after
republicans argue against a
pre-fund and it's changed and
the administration comes back
and chairman dodd comes back and
we end up with post-funding,
both of which do the same thing,
i might add, and both of them
work, it's going to be
interesting to me to see if
whether that argument basically
has led to treasury then having
the ability to come back and --
and do a bank tax.
i think at the end of the day,
that's something that they've