If you participate in a business that can impact your decisions as a regulator or policy maker, that's a conflict of interest. The problem isn't the price of th

If you participate in a business that can impact your decisions as a regulator or policy maker, that's a conflict of interest. The problem isn't the price of the speeches. It's the fact that she got paid that money by someone who has a huge interest in a financial system that she's charged to oversee. > delivering a speech that she may have delivered in other venues does not strike me as necessarily of conflict This argument totally ignores the fact that the conflict of interest arises from the transaction, not from the content of her speech.