Walter Lukken, acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, discusses how commodity trading, speculation, and regulation affect the international financial markets.
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Listen to Walter Lukken, acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, explain how commodity trading, speculation, and regulation affect the international financial markets.
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The United States spends approximately $700 million per year in the Andean region, but this Commission report concludes that current U.S. policy--focused narrowly on "drugs and thugs" in the Andes--cannot achieve U.S. regional goals of democracy, prosperity, and security. Andes 2020 offers bold new recommendations to recalibrate U.S. policy to better meet its objectives.
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