Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return.

It won't be good for foreign investment. The political uncertainty is too great.

I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking.

It won't be good for foreign investment not now. The political uncertainty is too great.

Stronger regulation and supervision aimed at problems with underwriting practices and lenders' risk management would have been a more effective and surgical approach to constraining the housing bubble than a general increase in interest rates.