The mission of the Gift Fund always has been to increase the level of charitable giving across the United States.

European companies are flush with cash and they want to own market share in the United States, ... They want to own the 'new economy.'

China's exports to the United States continue to surge because China is subsidizing its currency on an unprecedented scale.

If they feel like they have to go through the whole political process in the United States to buy a company, they're going to say, the heck with it.

They are, and always have been, public property belonging to the United States.

Donor-advised funds are part of a fundamental shift in philanthropy toward more strategic and thoughtful giving by a broad spectrum of donors -a shift that we believe will continue to result in more dollars flowing to the nation's charities.