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The Jakarta police have begun acting with new vigor: they charged one prominent radical leader with defamation for publicly calling women opposed to the anti-pornography bill “evil, wretched, and immoral,” and then arrested the
chairman
and twenty members of FPI for attacking a group of cafes.
Rumors abound that the family of Prime Minister Chernomyrdin, its former chairman, has a large stake, a claim the prime minister vigorously denies.)
When I was a British cabinet minister and
chairman
of the Conservative Party, I had a legal adviser who was aptly named Mr. Maybe.
Here, Murray Weidenbaum, the
chairman
of Reagan’s first Council of Economic Advisers, deserves the credit for inventing what he called “perhaps my most lasting legacy.”
The Karnataka elections even gave rise to a new phenomenon with the creation of the Bangalore Political Action Committee, led by Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, the
chairman
of the Bangalore-based biotechnology company Biocon.
The most highly touted change – the separation between proprietary trading and commercial banking (also known as the “Volker rule,” after former US Federal Reserve
chairman
Paul Volker) – has nothing to do with what caused the crisis, and most likely was approved because it was ineffective.
This man now styled himself as
chairman
of a "Committee of National Reconciliation."
The
chairman
of China Investment Corporation, Jin Liquin, commented skeptically on a proposed Chinese bailout of Europe, which he called “a worn-out welfare society” with “outdated” welfare laws that induce dependence and sloth.
Martin Rapaport,
chairman
of the group, has called for free access to the diamond fields by non-governmental organizations and industry representatives to monitor the human rights situation.
So far, the Fed’s policies under its new chairman, Jerome Powell, have been spot on; but that hasn’t stopped Trump from publicly complaining that interest rates are rising too rapidly.
Nandan Nilekani, the
chairman
of Infosys who left his job to create the system, known as Aadhaar, credits it with saving the Indian government roughly $9 billion by eliminating duplicate and false identities in government beneficiary lists.
The options backdating scandal that recently caught Apple’s chairman, Steve Jobs, is a microcosm of innovation, prosecution, and reform; now that a rule has been written to prohibit backdating, this particular scam will not happen again.
Mahmoud Abbas, the
chairman
of the PLO and President of the Palestinian Authority, who has vowed not to run for re-election, has chosen to take the path of UN recognition rather than continue with the charade of useless – indeed, harmful – direct talks.
In Georgia, as in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks to implement the doctrine of a “liberal empire” put forward in October 2003 by Anatoli Chubais, the
chairman
of United Energy System (RAO UES), Russia’s energy monopoly.
If Cuba agrees with the committee’s proposal, the
chairman
will submit its recommendation for Cuba’s accession to the board, where once again a simple majority is required.
To see why, one need look no further than the House Ways and Means Committee, whose current chairman, Paul Ryan, is a leader of the hardline Republican insurgents who had scorned Boehner for being too willing to compromise with President Barack Obama and House Democrats.
The Great ModerationIt has been 20 years since Alan Greenspan became
chairman
of America’s Federal Reserve Bank.
The internal battle within the Obama administration seemed to have been won by Paul Volcker, the impressive and outspoken former Federal Reserve
chairman
who has long been a critic of financial innovation.
Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, who was the executive
chairman
of Breitbart News, appears to be losing influence, and may even be on his way out.
We do not yet know the answers to these questions, but Fed watchers were alarmed by a January 31 letter to Fed Chair Janet Yellen from Representative Patrick McHenry, the vice
chairman
of the House Committee on Financial Services.
Alan S. Blinder, formerly deputy
chairman
of the US Federal Reserve Board, is professor of economics at Princeton University, visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, and managing partner of the Promontory Financial Group.
Luxembourg’s prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, a former
chairman
of the Euro group, has lamented that European leaders know what the right policies are, but do not know how to be reelected after implementing them.
On the contrary, he appointed Paul Volcker, a towering pillar of monetary stability, as
chairman
of the Board of Governors.
Ben Bernanke, the US Federal Reserve chairman, once famously pinned the whole US current account deficit on a “global savings glut.”
Regardless of Jamie Dimon’s victory in retaining his dual role as CEO and
chairman
of the board, the more important failure on display was that of the board of directors itself – a problem that affects almost all of the world’s megabanks.
In principle, a strong outside lead director can be just as effective as an independent
chairman
– a fair point that has been made in recent weeks.
Nationalization certainly seems to appeal to the powerful faction comprising Putin’s former KGB colleagues and associates from his native St. Petersburg, one of whom last year became the
chairman
of Rosneft, the wholly state-owned oil company which acquired Yuganskneftegaz.
The former Federal Reserve chairman’s simple idea has been co-opted and diluted through hundreds of pages of legalese.
But the Trump campaign vetted its new
chairman
less diligently than most people do when hiring a house cleaner.
It seems unlikely that Ron Paul, the libertarian
chairman
of the US Senate Banking Committee, who doubts that even the US needs a central bank, would be inclined to agree.
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