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Policymakers should focus less on the government's retreat from the mortgage market and more on creating the kind of investment environment needed to attract significant private capital.

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Exposed: Turmoil in the Ukraine roiled global markets on Monday, with European and Russian bank stocks taking a hit. The Times reports global markets had calmed on Tuesday (no specifics on bank stocks mentioned), after Russian President Vladimir Putin said via news conference that he saw no need to use military force at the moment. However, investors tell the paper "confidence remains fragile Â... and the calm could quickly dissipate." The FT...

"It would have made a lot more sense to bring back Glass-Steagall," a pre-and-post crisis risk manager tells American Banker Editor in Chief Neil Weinberg, while discussing WashingtonÂ's Dodd-Frank solution.

A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week.

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Yellen on the Hill, Again: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen appeared before the Senate Banking Committee Thursday. Here's what we learned from her second trip to the Hill as the central bank's leader: She watches the weather Â-- "I think it's clear the unseasonably cold weather has played some role in that," she told lawmakers when asked about a recent run of bad economic data Â-- and she's waiting to see what...