so we should have passed trea. that everybody here thinks there is no one company that somehow provide systematic risk. that's what i heard. i don't think i heard anyone say anything different. has anyone here heard the company aig? i know it hasn't been in the news lately. >> congressman, to be clear, aig is kind of colloquial referred to as the world largest insurance company, but it 71 -- >> excuse me. the idea is it is an insurance company that does different lines and the problem that i have with it is that it is one company that was into so many things that the state regulators chose not to regulate. the federal government didn't have anybody to regulate and the states collectively said we don't need to look at what aig is doing. we will only look at this slice, this slice and a slice. that's all, and those slices worked fine. >> actually, congressman, the insurance regulators look at the insurance subsidiaries. the problem was, and this is why we support systemic regulation, there was a complete lack of regu

skies still remain mostly lycls oudihi twi yng showers intohe trea. a vienna, virginia, currently 81 childress lessib lookingt a 78 degreer aft a morning low of 67 -- 68. it's currently 66 in extreme western maryland. outside of this hour, we show a daytime high of 3 degrees. that's what we managed to accomplish today after an average high of 8 we'll get it out eventually. 82 currently. and reagan national, pittsburgh only 71 degrees. that cool air off to the north and west that's going do come in to our daytime area. the heat out to the west will make it way to the area by wednesday and thursday. area of show pressure across the great lakes that's going to allow thunderstorms to develop late tomorrow to evening hours. that's the best chance for thunderstorms and showers. it will also come on tuesday. over all a very quiet evening. skies will turn mostly cloudy. and we'll look for temperatures that will fall into the upper 50's. so just around 0 to 62 degrees. >> we are going to keep the showers and thunderstorms in the forecast late in the day. not e

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host: earlier we heard from trea detroit's mayor dave bing and he spoke about those leaving the auto industry to be retrained for other purposes and talked about the role of education. >> i think that detroit is always going to be the motor city. because we are not going to be heavily involved in manufacturing as we once were, when you really look at the brain power and look at what is happening in our area in terms of higher education, most of the car companies around the world still have their engineering people here. all the technical capabilities that are here in detroit i think will remain here. we just won't see a lot of plant activity. that is why they moved down south and offshore. in terms of brain power it is here in detroit and continuing will being looked at as the motor city. host: that was detroit's circumstances but how does it apply to others? guest: i think that is true for a lot of cities. they tend to have industries for which they don't want to abandon the historic role of the workforce in that area. i certainly wouldn't suggest that detroit should abandon the aut

i think it's treas because they write the checks. >> i know your prior history at the imf. mr.royce? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would ask a question of mr. mahoney and mr. zandy for their opinion on this. but for many years, i was concerned about the perceived government backing of fannie mae and freddie mac. and about the ability of these firms to borrow at interest rates that were a lot lower. they were near governmental rates. and most private companies, of course, because of perceived investment rink associateded with fannie and freddie being so much lower, most competitors were at a disadvantage. at the same time, they were allowed to involve themselves in arbitrage. i think the leverage was 100 to 1. i think that one of the main problems that we had was legitimizing the idea that subprime loans were safe. and i think the fact that the government sponsored enterprises witness out and purchased for their portfolios a half trillion of these directed by the government to do so, by the way. and one of the comments made by one of the gses officials was that we sought to indi

rest of th uny,trea hunt continues down into the southwest. i lfeer in florida with temperatures in the 90s. on 70s up in new england. also in the northern plains and central great lakes. as far as conditions are concerned, sky conditions we are looking at showers and thunderstorms along the delmarva peninso >>> a good monday i' m i'm meteorologist cck bell. we have a cloudy sky with a few light showers earlier, now most of the rain is pulling out of the area. we'll have a couple of dry hours. we'll have another chance for rain later on this afternoon. temperature 72 in washington 73 in annapolis and prince george's county, 68 in frederick, maryland. today partly to mostly cloudy. >> more from here in key west florida a little bit later on. >>> now to the economy and the looming question is the recession finally over? wall street begins the week on a roll, up 9 of the last 10 trading days. cnbc's maria bartiromo is the anchor of "closing bell." good to see you. let me go right to the cover of "newsweek" magazine. it says -- "the recession is o

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