Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

Whatever you tax, you get less of.

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

Diplomacy is really far less important than the stock movements within Russia.

To further strengthen the protections that we have put in place to guard against fraud and abuse, we are asking that agencies operate under pre-hurricane levels unless they can justify to us that there are exceptional circumstances.

Foreign investors, both private and official, may become less willing to absorb ever-growing claims on U.S. residents,