Hubbard's been vocal on the Federal Reserve's new role in regulation as part of the Financial Stability Oversight Council. Here's how Reuters quoted him earlier in the year.

"The Fed will need to beef up its ability to investigate sources of systemic risk -- something it should already be doing, but its very sanguine attitude at the onset of the
financial crisis suggests a need for improvement. To do its job, it will also need to collect data from large non-bank institutions, including very large hedge funds and insurers.
The danger is that the Fed has wandered into distinctly political areas with the new authority. Indeed, the Fed's expansion of authority in the recent crisis already potentially compromised the independence of monetary policy."

Reuters.com blogger Felix Salmon said Hubbard and others interviewed in a new documentary about the financial crisis, Inside Job, will regret participating. Salmon called the movie "a must-see for pretty much everybody." blogs.reuters.com

R. Glenn Hubbard is the dean of Columbia Business School.
He was the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush, where he helped craft the tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003. Hubbard was a senior economic adviser to Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign and held a Treasury post in the George H.W. Bush administration.

Hubbard’s research interests include tax policy, monetary economics, corporate finance, and international finance.

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Curious to see what Glenn has to say since he has such a tough record to defend. The economic disaster under Bush is hard to argue in favor of.

Exactly, the private sector needs to predict the future in Washington in order to grow. Right now, nobody knows what politicians will do next.

2000-2008 period: $1.9 trillion went from the US to foreign investments

Exactly, protectionism has never worked to bring countries out of recessions.

This should be interesting with the Stimulus talk.

Again, agreeing with Glenn on over focusing on short term, housing and consumption. We need to fix our underlying economy. We probably disagree on how to do that.

Public-Private partnerships remove accountability on both ends.

Glenn says we are "harassing the private sector," but Bush gave the "private sector" everything they wanted -- and we had a spectacular crash. It is an unjustifiable position.

The comment on the Chamber of Commerce is crazy. They are spending $75 million attacking the Democratic Party. They do not represent real small businesses in the country; they represent right-winger multi-national corporations and the richest people in the country. Their positions would destroy the economy.

It is COMICAL to claim that President Obama has been too tough on the corporate CEO's.

I disagree. One of the major problems with the healthcare law is that businesses had no way to predict what it would mean for them. This caused them not to expand and hire more people, which would reduce unemployment.