It's A Safe Banking System, A Sound

I Understand How Important The Automakers Are To America. And I Understand A Bankruptcy; A Failure In That Industry Wouldn't Be A Good Thing. It's Something We Should Avoid.

For Market Discipline To Constrain Risk Effectively, Financial Institutions Must Be Allowed To Fail. Under Optimal Financial Regulatory And Financial System Infrastructures, Such A Failure Would Not Threaten The Overall System.

As A Christian Scientist, I Don't Go To Doctors And Get Diagnoses.

Well, As You Know, We're Working Through A Difficult Period In Our Financial Markets Right Now, As We Work Off Some Of The Past Excesses. But The American People Can Remain Confident In The Soundness And The Resilience Of Our Financial System.

Every Global Concern - Economic, Environmental Or Security-related - Can Be Addressed More Effectively When The U.s. And China Work Together.