Let me connect this with the vision for the payments system that I’ve described today: One of the ways we can promote trade-driven growth is to work with our trading partners to reduce substantially the costs of cross-border payments.
In this regard, it is cause for concern that nearly 40 percent of the total respondents answered that they acquire financial and economic information -- through newspapers, magazines, television, websites, and other sources -- less than once a month, which was unchanged from the previous survey.