Public officials should hold private interests at arm s length and never cozy up to them.

Financial regulation is driven by the interests of banks, health policy by the interests of insurance companies, and tax policy by the interests of the rich.

This means that the financial world measures risk according to its own interests.

The Organization's financial disclosure programme requires designated staff members to file a confidential statement of their financial interests every year.

Since confidence plays a large part in financial crises, Mussolini s example immediately took hold.

To the extent that banks and other highly leveraged financial institutions hold them, the bursting bubbles could cause bankruptcies and financial market breakdown.

It is because politicians are in the pockets of financial interests, they said, that the regulatory environment allowed those interests to reap huge rewards at great social expense.

Second, no trade agreement should put commercial interests ahead of broader national interests, especially when non trade related issues like financial regulation and intellectual property are at stake.

None of this makes sense for global security, or even for the financial interests of donor countries.

The advanced countries, with their dominant corporate and financial interests, had set the agenda for those negotiations.

Anticipating such liquidity insurance, banks can make illiquid long term loans or hold other illiquid financial assets.

Where members of the ruling family hold direct commercial interests as in Libya and Tunisia the political transition is certain to cause collateral economic damage.

To buy or even to hold risky assets in such a situation is a recipe for financial disaster.

Americans have seen how financial firms put their own interests ahead of those of the country and the world.

The causes of prostitution mainly lie in financial and gender inequality which the criminal networks exploit in their interests.

After all, what developing country with its citizens long term interests in mind will be prepared to issue bonds through the US financial system, when America s courts as so many other parts of its political system seem to allow financial interests to trump the public interest?

Some of these prominent academics received significant sums to promote the interests of large banks and other financial sector firms.

Critics are trying to identify the ideas as well as the interests that were responsible for financial and economic dysfunction.

UNICEF agrees to liaise with UNOPS to ensure that financial procedures for direct construction adequately safeguard the interests of UNICEF.

Meanwhile, among the major emerging economies, China s reform process is on hold, pending a leadership transition this fall that will clarify various internal interests goals and power relationships.

Once trial proceedings begin, it may be in the interests of the Court and natural justice to hold such proceedings in the vicinity where the crimes were committed.

In effect, financial markets have established an implicit veto over much of economic policy and the people who can hold top policymaking positions, and it is time to think how we can escape that hold.

Disagreements about how to re regulate the financial markets are deep, owing to countless taboos and the huge interests at stake.

According to Palizdar, Ayatollah Rafsanjani has major financial interests in an oil company in Canada, and also the touristic island, Kish.

Meanwhile, Mathieu Pellerin, a researcher at the French Institute for International Relations, believes that financial incentives take precedence over political interests

He also has a network of people that monitor the activities of NGOs to ensure their compliance with his financial interests.

Throughout the world, there may be some similar effects, to the extent that foreign banks also hold bad US mortgages on their balance sheets, or in the worst case, if a general financial crisis takes hold.

Today, by contrast, such debates are too often centered at the IMF, where the financial interests of the advanced industrial countries predominate.

And hold it there, hold it there, both of you, hold it there.

Twenty first century legislators seemed to be more democratic, responding to their voters possibly misguided wishes, rather than primarily to powerful financial interests.

And, in the wider triumph of the precepts of financial deregulation and market completion, both interests and ideology have clearly played a role.

A very likely downgrade of these insurers credit ratings will force banks and financial institutions that hold these risky assets to write them down, adding another 150 billion to the financial system s mounting losses.

By exiting the EU, the UK would severely damage its economic interests, losing both the single market and London s role as a financial center.

That orthodoxy often went hand in hand with the national, corporate, and financial interests of the advanced industrial countries, or so it was perceived.

In our new book This Time is Different Eight Centuries of Financial Folly , Carmen Reinhart and I find that if financial crises hold one lesson, it is that their aftereffects have a very long tail.

Other changes deal with the provision of hold mail services and technical issues raised by the Law Officers' Chambers and the Financial Intelligence Service.

Given this, perhaps we should not hold China responsible for taking care of its own economic interests, even if it has aggravated in the process the costs of other countries misguided currency policies.

HONG KONG When the US investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed five years ago, emerging market economies did not hold many of the toxic financial assets mainly American subprime mortgages that fueled the subsequent global financial crisis.

Business and financial interests, in particular, are delighted with the outcome, crowing about the bonanza about to be unleashed as Congress liberalizes India s economy further.

For those in developing and emerging market countries who harbor grievances against the advanced countries, there is now one more reason for discontent with a brand of globalization that has been managed to serve rich countries interests (especially their financial sectors interests).

States continued to hold conflicting perspectives regarding terrorist acts, and self serving political interests seriously impeded the formulation of a universal guarantee against terrorism, while also serving to validate the deeds of the culprits.

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