# How Financial Institutions Became Tools of U.S. Foreign Policy (Second Request)

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Podcast: [The Capitol Forum](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-capitol-forum-podcast-3964355)
Published: 2026-01-09T05:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

In today's episode of Second Request , Executive Editor Teddy Downey sits down with Graham Steele former former Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and current Academic Fellow at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance. They discuss Steele's recent paper Financial Statecraft and explore the role of financial institutions in American foreign policy, and the tradeoffs for regulation of those industries in the U.S. To learn more about The Capitol Forum click here . To read Graham Steele's paper Financial Statecraft click here .

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