Symbolically, it has also stopped mopping up the yen that it creates when it intervenes in the foreign-exchange markets, as it has repeatedly done to stop the yen rising against the dollar.
In the case of Huron, private litigation against the firm was dropped in exchange for making the embarrassing admission the client lied to them repeatedly.
That has led the administration to reject the idea of offering North Korea additional aid in exchange for new North Korean vows to abide by agreements it has repeatedly abrogated.