Intheabsenceof regulation and transparency, pensions should think long and hard about their alternative investments before retaining or allocating even greater amounts to these managers.
Nevertheless, we are not going to achieve these common goals and successfully bring China, Russia and others into Western political institutions and financial and trading systems intheabsenceof adequate discipline, transparency and conditionality with regard to U.S. financing of prospective adversaries or those who would aid and abet them.