My policy is I will help any policymaker who asks, whether they be a Republican or a Democrat.

My policy is I will help any policymaker who asks, whether they be a Republican or a Democrat.

Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.

Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011.

There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.

The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.

The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.