Banking, payment, accounting, and financial infrastructures. The work was enormous. And here i must take off my hat to the exceptional dedication of the staff working in d. C. Then we had the asian crisis. It was a very different kind of episode. We had Central Banks there. They were severely tested in the affected countries. We had a few false starts in some cases. You may remember them pretty well. Also, decisive stabilization measures. More important probably are the lessons which were learned from them, by them and by the imf, in that occasion. One was that financial vulnerabilities can even be when macroeconomic fundamentals appear sound. This was the surprise of that moment, one of them. Another was that the risk from large and volatile capital flows create larger Foreign Exchange offers. We had some difficulty in convincing our membership that you had to add a zero to the numbers of our loans in several countries. We had some problems with that, but we did it. Then we had the ch
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A oats signage on the roadway are together and like to put a small pitch in to at least conceptual lists the enhancement when we look at pier 70 because the frontier is there we dont want to push what works well into that area because the great possibility a few days ago the design was approved i encourage you to take that into your conceptual thinking it has to be a one long experience. Commissioner antonini. Yeah. Along those same lines something i think that is not being discussed here but should be looked at the t line extension which is what a lot of people are talking about it makes up because it allows pier 70 and far north to access the yes, maam baker by the streetcars and urging the tomb open massachusetts so much and one more source of people getting there without having to use cars or without having to use buses that go through the grid of the city thats important and the other thing we have to look at is we did years ago the embarcadero freeway which fortunately is no long
To find that landscaping and paving and kind of more sensible approach to make people want to walk open the side that is the issue of connectivity and ultimately in order for the majority of resident to come the waffling we have to cross somewhere like broadway or washington or jack it is extremely painful and frustrating you might stand there before the light chunks in our direction from the train and its unacceptable when you want to walk to the Farmers Market or when you want to meet someone for coffee ultimately at this moment the mode of cars and the speed of light signals is ail biased towards the car not anything to do with the boulevard so i strongly encourage we look at embarcadero a oats signage on the roadway are together and like to put a small pitch in to at least conceptual lists the enhancement when we look at pier 70 because the frontier is there we dont want to push what works well into that area because the great possibility a few days ago the design was approved i en
Manhattan office idiots and worse for investigating him. Joining us, dana bash, joe lockhart, and cnn Global Affairs analyst bianna golodryga. Great to have you all on this Christmas Eve. Lets start with impeachment and then move to rudy. Im going to have a lozenge while we talk. If you had lozenge on your bingo card. Have another cup of coffee. Joe, who would have thought that wed be looking back on the clinton impeachment as a Gold Standard of civility and bipartisanship. But that is where we are. Mitch mcconnell saying that he will follow the rules as they were done then. Lets take a listen to what he is saying and then have you tra translate it for us into truth. We havent ruled out witnesses. Weve said lets handle this case just like we did with president clinton. Fair is fair. Every other impeachment has had witnesses. Its not unusual to have witnesses in a trial. Okay, joe. Whats he talking about. Whats that clintonera standard that we need to return to . We should remember that