There is a great deal of French interest in India now that must still be converted into action on the ground.

It imparts a certain momentum to nuclear negotiations with the US. France has played a significant role in what is currently going on between India and the US.

It's a response to the Federal Reserve's action last week -- the first interest rates increase in a while. And the Fed chairman said he would be preemptive rather than reactionary in his war against inflation. So I think we can expect more.

It's a response to the Federal Reserve's action last week -- the first interest rates increase in a while, ... And the Fed chairman said he would be preemptive rather than reactionary in his war against inflation. So I think we can expect more.

A lot more needs to be done to transfer that interest into action.

The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining...and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away….
- Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, 1837