This is exactly the type of environment that the Federal Reserve has been working to encourage with accommodative financial conditions promoting the flow of credit to households and small businesses. And finally, as all of us are acutely aware after more than a year of pandemic-related shutdowns, broadband access has become even more of an essential utility.
We are in the meantime reflecting on the fact that our scores in the evaluation of anti-corruption competitiveness and integrity conducted by a national agency last year were low, and working to make up for our imperfections.