Issues in corporate governance

On September 29, 2002, William J. McDonough, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, delivered the William Taylor Memorial Lecture in Washington, D.C., at an event cosponsored by the William Taylor Memorial Fund and the Group of Thirty, a private, international consultative group on economic and monetary affairs. In his lecture, Mr. McDonough describes the actions already taken by private and public sector groups to strengthen corporate governance and accounting standards and identifies areas where reforms are still needed.Corporations - Finance ; Accounting ; Risk management ; Executives - Salaries

Opening remarks

Opening remarks at the conference "Policies to Promote Affordable Housing," cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, February 7, 2002.Housing - Finance ; Housing policy

Remarks on economic, supervisory, and regulatory issues facing foreign banks operating in the United States

Remarks before the Comptroller of the Currency Conference on "Foreign Banks in the United States: Economic, Supervisory, and Regulatory Issues," Washington, D.C., July 13, 1995.Bank supervision ; Banks and banking, Foreign - United States

A framework for the pursuit of price stability

Based on remarks delivered before the Annual Financial Services of the New York Bankers Association on March 21, 1996, and the Economic Club of New York on October 2, 1996.Inflation (Finance) ; Prices ; Monetary policy

Fiscal policy in an era of surpluses: economic and financial implications - opening remarks

Fiscal policy ; Budget

Financial innovation and monetary transmission, opening remarks

Monetary policy ; Financial modernization

Colloquium on U.S. wage trends in the 1980s: opening remarks

Wages

Good, Evil, Sin

Christianity stands in fundamental awe that anything at all exists. Simply to exist is good, and so Christianity\u27s first concern in respect to goodness is to understand what we and all other things are, and why we exist at all. A technical way to say this is that goodness is an ontological concern (ontos is the Greek word meaning being, and so ontology is the study of existence) before it is a moral one: we seek to understand what reality is and who we are before we dare to make judgments about whether particular things or actions or persons are good or bad. Download full text to read more.https://ir.stthomas.edu/encounteringislam/1011/thumbnail.jp