I was, as president and chairman of the board, required by law to verify the veracity of the financial figures, the assets under management, the number of outstanding shares, et cetera.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've signed many documents as president and CEO as required by law. I signed every single document that we were required to file - every single one of them.
Fostering transparency and accountability at the Federal Reserve was one of my principal objectives when I became Chairman in February 2006.
And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while.
I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.
I wasn't able to do much reading when I was chairman of the Reserve Board. The workload was too large, and the luxury of reading was not available to me. So I caught up a good deal when I left office.
I also served on many government committees.
The best board members aren't elected by default. CEOs that set themselves up with their choice of board member - which means getting more than one term sheet and doing extensive reference checking - are better off.
I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act.
Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.
I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.