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Shannon good morning, everyone. Welcome to our symposium on the future of anticorruption in u. S. Foreignpolicy. Everyone knows that the senator, we know he has been thinking about these issues for many, many years. Let me start off by asking you in your time here, 30 years are close to 30 years here in washington, you have dealt with a lot of foreignpolicy challenges. Youve dealt with wars, economic classes and refugee crisis. All sorts of threats and amid all of these, where did corruption link . Thank you very much. Take you to the council on Foreign Affairs for holding this series of discussions of dealing with corruption. You have to realize there are forces working against us. We scheduled this over a month ago and we had snow. Here i am trying to get away from the Nuclear Fallout happening in the United States senate. There are outside forces at work here. Corruption is you talk about my experiences when i first came to congress, i got involved in the Helsinki Commission basical
Event. We have seen in recent years and increasing recognition of corruption, serious and wide ranging consequences in the nation it occurs in u. S. Foreign policy. It deters commerce and intensifies social inequalities. It drains dollars and provides obstacles for democracy and rule of law by undermining the functioning and legitimacy of institutions. this means that requires evaluating past approaches for what has and hasnt worked. It will be working alone as well as in concert with National Partners to address and other forms of corruption. It is the issues that will delve into today. We have, very forcefully, and impressive speakers both have been on the front lines of designing and implementing or advocating for those policies. They include former and sitting government officials, legal experts, leaders of nongovernmental organizations. I believe its fitting that were starting off the podium. From then carded, instrumental in driving letter station. He is a longtime advocate of a
He currently serves as a member of the Foreign Relations committee, held by the council on Foreign Relations, this is an hour. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the council on Foreign Relations and welcome to our symposium here on the future of anticorruption in u. S. Foreign policy. Im shannon oneal, a senior fellow here for latin america studies at the council on Foreign Relations, as well as the director of the Civil Society markets and Democracy Program that is hosting this event. Now, weve seen in recent years an increasing recognition of corruption, serious and wide ranging consequences, both for the nations in which it occurs, and also for u. S. Foreign policy. Corruption towards investment and commerce, it intensifies economic and social inequalities, it drains development dollars, and it presents major obstacles for democracy and rule of law by undermining the functioning and also legitimacy of institutions in countries. Erodes Citizens Trust in their governments and it drive
Larry kudlow discuss whether trump can close that gap. New jerseys Pension Fund Manager is slashing in half because of high fees and market underperformance. Hearing from the chairman coming up. A big story making the rounds here today. It will be another big wave of earnings after the close of priceline, activision, linkedin and kraft heinz. Lets start with the bank of england Interest Rate cut move and among other moves and affecting businesses back here. We have a report on the tourism industry. Steve . Pay attention. This is really down in the weeds and really interesting. Monetary policy stuff. In addition to the rate cut and more qe, the bank of England Governor Mark carney put a clever detail in to help banks, help the economy, and also, offer lesson to the federal reserve. Few are talking about it but carney exempted excess federal Bank Reserves and created by qe and when they create them, through qe, banks have to set aside capital for against them. Even though theyre totally