...Just look at the current financial crisis.

As government regulators have sought to head off further market losses,

they've found that perhaps the most effective tool at their disposal is what the president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank described to me as their

"convening power" —

their ability to get the big boys of Wall Street and world financial capitals into a room or on a conference call to collaborate on solving a problem...

http://www.topix.net/forum/world/canada/TSR03...