financial market participants who have incentive to be the important to navy in the coal mine -- ken terrien the coal mine. i want to make clear as the secretary said yesterday our goal is to help ensure there's a much closer alignment between compensation, sound risk management and long-term value creation for firms and the economy as a whole. our goal is not to have the government micromanage private-sector compensation. as this extradite nursing yesterday we are not capping the pay or sitting fourth precise prescriptions which can be counterproductive. and we come to this with a clear right sense of the seriousness and humility one must bring both the importance of the issue but also the care and writer one must take to ensure well-intentioned actions do not lead to unintended consequences. i will mention a few of the principles the secretary geithner linda out, a couple of examples and then i look forward to the discussion. one, compensation should accurately measure and reward performance and i think this is an important issue. it is a lot easier to get everybody to agree that performa