A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.

Anticompetitive practices hurt Chinese private firms nearly as much as foreign ones.

In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition.

U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market.

The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. - fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself.

I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.

I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'