BERNANKE: Well, I think it's -- it's quite true that business confidence, home builder confidence, consumer confidence are -- are very important. And good policies promote confidence.
That's -- the Fed policy, congressional policy, we want to try to create a framework where people understand what's happening and -- and they believe they have confidence that -- that the basics of macroeconomic stability will be preserved.
It is a difficult thing, you know, to some extent it's a political talent to create confidence in -- in your constituents. So nobody has a magic formula for that. But, clearly, the more we can demonstrate that we're working together to try to solve these important problems, the more likely we're gonna instill confidence in the public. And that, in turn, will pay off in economic terms.