New York Times to Financial Regulator: How Do You Do it?

The New York Times business section today interviews the "gung ho regulator" in charge of overseeing financial derivatives. So what are the tough questions we have for former Goldman Sachs partner (obviously)-turned Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler? I'll list every one of them:

You've been in the job since 2009. What's the most challenging aspect?

The C.F.T.C. has taken up much of the implementation of Dodd-Frank. How challenging has it been?

What's the most absurd complaint you've received about the new regulations?

How would you describe the response you've received from industry lobbyists?

Can your staff handle the load?

Republicans have said that the C.F.T.C. is moving too fast in developing regulations. Are they right?

Does it ever get overwhelming?

Which is tougher, life on Wall Street or life in Washington?

Would you ever go back to Goldman?

Why leave a profitable career to come to Washington?

Will you run for public office?

How are you coping as a single father?

Comments

[R C Dean]

There are only two questions that matter:

(1) When will the SEC be bringing criminal indictments in connection with the massive and widespread fraud in the derivatives markets?

(2) When will the SEC require that CDSs and CMOs be exchange-traded?

[adam]

The CFTC Chairman probably can't answer most questions about what the SEC is going to do. But since the SEC has no criminal enforcement authority, the answer your first question is never.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"If you could be any tree, how many sewage pipes would your roots destroy?"

[Night Elf Mohawk]

Do you like me? Check "yes" or "no".

[wylie]

If no, which girl in class DO you like most? And do you need me to pass her a note? *giggle*

[Ragin Cajun]

Can your staff handle the load?

Wong and Owens are at the SEC now?

[Johnny Longtorso]

Do you like movies about gladiators?

[Captain Over]

Ever been in a Turkish prison?

[Flex Nasty B.I.G.]

You know, the other day I finally found out what Captain Over was talking about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.....ess_(film)

[SugarFree]

Please rate your chances in a monkey knife-fight. Capuchin and Macaques division.

[P Brooks]

Nothing about his London cobbler of choice?

I am disappoint.

[Pro Libertate]

"Christmas or Saturnalia?"

[Kant feel Pietzsche]

Briefs or Boxers?

[Barney FRank]

Spit or swallow?

[Jeffersonian]

Makes the North Korean News Service look like Woodward and fucking Bernstein.

[P Brooks]

he served as assistant Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration and later advised Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, Democrat of Maryland and the architect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which overhauled the nation's accounting rules.

Oh, goody.

[Pro Libertate]

That's funny. The OED doesn't have a definition for "overhauled" that means "fucked up." Huh.

[Establishment Journalist]

Adversarial? Never heard of it sir.

[blogimi Dei]

Whew! I'm here!
Is this the 4:00 free crack giveaway?

[hmm]

Obviously the most pressing question is, fuckin' magnets, how do they work? Followed by, your place or mine.

[Brett L]

Does this work anywhere but ICP concerts?

[hmm]

yes

[hmm]

And I am on a mission to prove it.

[Christ opher]

Crack journalism at it's best. Wouldn't want any of the NYT readers to be informed or anything.

[Old Mexican]

Can your staff handle the load?

Hey! This is a family blog - FAMILY!

[Old Mexican]

Does it ever get overwhelming?

"Well, I am a screamer... scares my wife a bit sometimes..."

[Old Mexican]

How are you coping as a single father?

"I did mention I scare my wife, didn't I?"

[Old Mexican]

How would you describe the response you've received from industry lobbyists?

"Well, I did point out I was a screamer, so...."

[Steve]

"Well, I am a screamer... scares my wife a bit sometimes..."

And here I thought that I was the only guy who did that!

[The Mansons]

Old Mexican|2.11.11 @ 10:55AM|#

Can your staff handle the load?

Hey! This is a family blog - FAMILY!

Oh, this most certainly is . . .

[Old Mexican]

The New York Times business section[...]

Which no business person worth his salt ever reads...

[Irresponsible Hater]

How do you balance your responsibilities to the Guild against the interests of your colleagues on Ix and Tleilax?

What do you see with those metal eyes?

[wylie]

I don't get the joke here. Inquiring minds actually want answers to these questions.

[zoltan]

It's a Dune reference. You didn't get it because you are not a major nerd.

[P Brooks]

Will you renounce Satanism, now that you have left Goldman Sachs?

[Monty Python to the rescue]

Hungarian: My hovercraft (pantomimes puffing a cigarette)...is full of eels

(pretends to strike a match).

Clerk: Ahh, matches!

Hungarian: Ya! Ya! Ya! Ya! Do you waaaaant...do you waaaaaant...to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?

Clerk: Here, I don't think you're using that thing right.

Hungarian: You great poof.

[Steven Smith]

What's your point? That a business reporter didn't bother to ask whether he beats his wife, but instead focused on his job?

[Johnny Longtorso]

"How are you coping as a single father?"??

[alan]

Republicans have said that the C.F.T.C. is moving too fast in developing regulations. Are they right?

Translate: It seems almost silly to ask you this, but since the Republicans brought it up and for some inexplicable reason people still vote for them, is your agency moving to fast in developing regulations?

[alan]

That extra 'o' on the end of 'too' really was there before I shifted some words around.

[P Brooks]

Would you ever be in favor of banks actually having to take losses on bad bets?

[Pro Libertate]

How can you tell if a brown towel is clean?

[fresno dan]

The "Fluffer" is a movie about a naive young guy who starts working in the Gay Porn industry under (heh heh) his idol. OK, he is just a lackey whose job it is to blow the star just enough so that the star is hard for the scene.

So, in this obvious analogy to the movie, who is:
A. the porn star
B. the fluffer
C. the porn industry
please discuss

[zoltan]

A. the dude being interviewed
B. the New York Times
C. the "news" industry

I can has cheezburger?

[Almanian]

"So, that place where most people have a 'soul' - what do you have? Is it just a hole, an empty space? Or is there something else there, like an anti-soul or something?"

[Joe M]

What, couldn't you find a movie titled The Fellator?

[Joe M]

Any ideas on how to eliminate moral hazard from the banking industry?

[Thomas Sabo bracelet]

what an amazing article is!

[thomas sabo]

Love need your heart!