I had a long markup coming back and forth. Chair of the Government Operations subcommittee that hasma jurisdiction over inspectors general could you describe your understanding of the roles and functions of the Inspector General . The Inspector General reports to the head of the agency. They have the responsibility to identify areas of waste fraud and abuse and then to conduct independent audits and investigations with a strong commitment to be independent with the influence comes from the agency or congress or any other place there is a commitment to be independent. Do you believe the ig is subject to the supervisors review and approval of the subject matter that the ig may beut pursuing. And thats my point you have been independent from many kinds of employees. So you, had conversations about the subject matter he was proposing are activelyte investigating . I referring to a specific subject matter . Starting with the general in getting to the particular , we are now in the territory
Vonnie may be the chinese economy is coming back. Maybe the government wants to get their arms around that and make it more transparent and a little easier. Peter the fact that there are more defaults is not by itself bad news. They were suppressed before. You had a lot of Zombie Companies that were being kept alive artificially. Now companies are being allowed to default. The late Carnegie Mellon economist used to say capitalism without failure is like Religion Without sin. David exactly. If you will have a healthy capital market, you have to have a way of people to falling. It is true in new york and london. Maybe it will become true in china and beijing. Peter today the chinese leadership came out with a concept for how to regularize defaults in china so that things are done by the book instead of in an ad hoc kind of under the table sort of way. Vonnie inc. David encouraging news out of china. Thanks so much to peter coy. Now we want to turn to sonali vasek. Talking about banks, we
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