Overview of Near Term Policy Agenda – Focus on Regulatory Reform. “This presentation was delivered to a group of academics who have organized a research group with the goal of “Modeling Financial Sector Linkages to the Macro-Economy”. The research group is organized by the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago and is supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The presentation was made as the result of a request to meet with the group to discuss issues relating to macroeconomic modeling and systemic risk modeling. The presentation was made on April 6, 2012, in New York City.”