*  *  *  Members of the Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics, Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am very pleased that the Banco de Portugal can host this Workshop on “Fostering cooperation between the European Statistical System (ESS) and the European System of Central Banks (ESCB)” – an event meant to recognise and celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics (CMFB) – and I would like to extend a warm welcome to all of you for joining us today.
It is a great pleasure to join you all this morning for the premiere of KUED’s documentary Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve. It is also a great pleasure to be in Utah. It has been a long time since a Fed Chair made an official visit to Utah. Alan Greenspan spoke in Salt Lake City 22 years ago.