"This policy review, known as the Strategic Defense Review, placed considerable emphasis on the need to communicate to maintain modern forces for a modern world, " Smith said.
In a letter on August 23rd to Darrell Issa, a congressman who had raised concerns about the Facebook IPO, she agreed there should be a review of the quiet period in light of recent changes to financial markets and modern communications technology.
Once again, my more ponderous thoughts were featured in an essay being published tomorrow in The Los Angeles Review of Books, in which I analyse Double Entry : How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance by Jane Gleeson-White.