premise: So,  <hypo>." BERNANKE ON EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION "For capitalism to work you have to have incentives tied to performance and I think one of the things people are very upset about is the fact that it seems like a lot of people who drove their companies into the ditch walked off with lots of money.
hypothesis: <hypo> should be "but -- and we tried very, very hard to do so -- but it was beyond our ingenuity or capacity to do it"