News December 10, 2018

News Stories

• The G-20 dines a lot, but it doesn’t make progress

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Boston Globe) – The trivial details of the personal relations between the leaders provide endless fodder for journalists, but they are inconsequential.

• Fed needs to hit pause on hikes

  SPEAKER: Sheila Bair

  (Yahoo Finance) – I fear that Federal Reserve officials will do precisely the wrong thing at the next Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting by raising rates to show their independence from the president, who is publicly bullying them against such a move. Instead, they should heed the market which is flashing warnings, and listen to a growing chorus of experts encouraging them to hit pause on interest rate hikes.

• LinkedIn Top Voices 2018: Influencers

  SPEAKER: Susan Cain

  (LinkedIn) – Every day, over 2 million posts, videos and articles course through the LinkedIn feed, generating tens of thousands of comments every hour — and tens of millions more shares and likes. So, who stood out in 2018 — and who should you be following to stay ahead?

• Quotas are a terrible way to promote board diversity. Companies should do this instead

  SPEAKER: Carly Fiorina

  (CNN Business) – Viewed through the prism of our own experience as corporate directors, we think it’s high time for boards to become more diverse. Not because a law requires it, but because a variety of backgrounds, experiences and skill sets leads to stronger, more rigorous, and significantly more effective corporate governance.

• George HW Bush’s presidency transformed global relations

  SPEAKER: Robert Zoellick

  (Financial Times) – Europeans who wonder about the benefits of ties with the US should recall the tenure of president George HW Bush. He entered the White House at a transformative movement for transatlantic and global relations. In four years, he left a greater legacy than most presidents achieve over two terms.

• Newt Gingrich: G-20 summit — Don’t be fooled by the grins, handshakes and awestruck news coverage

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  When you see pictures of smiling world leaders from the G-20 summit that began Friday in Buenos Aires, Argentina, remember that the images do not depict reality. The G-20 summit is not a pleasant social gathering of nice people who all have the same values or the same commitment to what we think of as […]

• What is Asylum?

  SPEAKER: Allen West

  (CNSNews) – I believe it is time to cast aside emotions and ideological agendas and look at the situation with illegal immigration in America objectively.

• The Facebook Dilemma: Brad Parscale

  SPEAKER: Brad Parscale

  (Frontline PBS) – Interview with Brad Parscale, digital and media advisor for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign

• If 1992 Was The Year Of The Woman, 2018 Is The Year Of Black & Brown Women

  SPEAKER: Maria Teresa Kumar

  (Bustle) – From moments of individual strength and courage to collective expressions of solidarity and engagement, women of color are shaking Americans out of their complacency and resignation by organizing, energizing, and leading the “resistance” — which is better referred to as the awakening of a vigorous civil society in this increasingly diverse nation.

• Our criminal justice system is badly broken. That’s why the First Step Act matters

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – America’s criminal justice system is badly broken, and the next few weeks will determine the fate of efforts to fix it.

• Allen West: How Do You Fundamentally Transform the United States of America?

  SPEAKER: Allen West

  If you remember, it was back in the waning days of the 2008 presidential election in Columbia, Missouri when then Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama made a defining assertion: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” What I found interesting was that no one said, “Time out on the […]

• David Bossie: GOP Senate victory in Mississippi shows strong support for Trump’s successful policies

  SPEAKER: David Bossie

  (Fox News) – Mississippi proved once again Tuesday that is it a conservative state whose residents prefer Republican policies when voters elected GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith – a steadfast supporter of President Trump – to complete the term of former Republican Sen. Thad Cochran.

• Carly Fiorina: Real leadership is about solving problems

  SPEAKER: Carly Fiorina

  (Fox News) – Former 2016 presidential candidate speaks out on President Trump’s agenda, the midterm elections and current political climate on ‘America’s Newsroom.

• Brad Parscale: “I feel good about 2018, and I feel good about 2020”

  SPEAKER: Brad Parscale

  (CBS This Morning) –  Brad Parscale, Mr. Trump’s 2020 campaign manager who served as Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign digital director, joins to discuss the upcoming elections.

• Has Trump peaked?

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Boston Globe) – On the day that Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed by the Senate as the newest Supreme Court justice — a day many Republicans celebrated as a tremendous victory over their Democratic opponents — I offered the following thought to my wife: “This is peak Trump.”

• David Bossie: Midterm election results mean Trump’s 2020 reelection prospects look better than ever

  SPEAKER: David Bossie

  (FOX News) – Tuesday’s midterm election results confirm beyond a doubt that President Trump is a political force of nature like we’ve never seen.

• Allen West: Constitutional Conservatism on Trial

  SPEAKER: Allen West

  (CNS News) – Imagine we are in a court of law, that we have gone through a lengthy trial, and it is now time for closing arguments. On one side we have the plaintiff, progressive socialism, and on the other side there is the defendant, constitutional conservatism. Progressive socialism has brought a lawsuit against constitutional conservatism demanding control/power. Progressive socialism makes the claim that their ideological agenda is better, and the jury, the American people, must decide the case.

• Newt Gingrich: Stop the caravan and build the wall to keep deadly drugs out and save lives

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – A perfect storm is brewing in the Southern Hemisphere and making its way north to the United States.

• Sean Spicer Discusses the Midterms

  SPEAKER: Sean Spicer

  (The Blaze) – Sean Spicer joins Glenn and all your favorite personalities from TheBlaze for a roundtable rundown of today’s top stories.

• Congressman Allen B. West releases new book

  SPEAKER: Allen West

  (The Old School Patriot) – Lieutenant Colonol (Ret) Allen B. West releases his new book “Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death”.

• The US must hold firm on bank capital rules

  SPEAKER: Sheila Bair

  (The Financial Times) – US politicians, with some help from regulators, are trying to weaken these rules, setting a dangerous global precedent. Both Republicans and Democrats supported legislation giving the three largest US custody banks an average of a 20 per cent reduction to their leverage ratios.

• Populism’s rise points to real problems in our world. We ignore it at our peril

  SPEAKER: Stephen Harper

  (The Globe and Mail) – For the vast majority of the world’s people, life today is longer, healthier and wealthier than at any other time in human history. Accelerating technological innovation promises great advancement at an even more rapid pace. It should be the dawn of a great new age.

• Carly Fiorina: Stop waiting on Washington to fix our problems

  SPEAKER: Carly Fiorina

  (Washington Examiner) – I have argued in these pages that politics has become about winning, not problem-solving; that while the media may highlight problems, they may actually make some of them worse; and that while “strongmen” claim to be vastly capable all by themselves, real problem-solving requires collaboration.

• The US would be in a bigger mess under Clinton than it is under Trump, historian Niall Ferguson says

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (CNBC) – A Hillary Clinton presidency would have been even more disruptive than the current Donald Trump administration, historian and prolific author Niall Ferguson told CNBC

• How to defuse a Bob Woodward book bombshell

  SPEAKER: Jen Psaki

  (CNN) – This is not Woodward’s first rodeo. He has written a series of books documenting each of our recent presidents. So how did the White Houses of George W. Bush and Barack Obama handle Woodward when they learned he was writing on them? For that answer I reached out to Jen Psaki, former White House communications director in the Obama administration (and a CNN contributor)

• HARPER: Corbyn’s anti-Semitism is a threat to all of us

  SPEAKER: Stephen Harper

  (Toronto Sun) – The rise in anti-Semitism across Europe should be alarming to all of us, and not just for moral reasons. History shows that the mindset which embraces anti-Semitism rarely restricts its hatred to the Jewish minority.

• Challenge Accepted: Hamilton-Wenham takes plunge for ALS

  SPEAKER: Nancy Frates

  (The Salem News) – After hearing from Nancy Frates, mom of ALS patient and crusader Pete, nearly 150 students took part in a massive ice bucket challenge at the high school.

• Carly Fiorina: Between Trump and the media, ‘Who’s Zoomin’ Who?’

  SPEAKER: Carly Fiorina

  (Washington Examiner) – The late, great Aretha Franklin wrote a song called “Who’s Zoomin’ Who?” She sang of two people, each of whom felt cheated on and victimized by the other, both of whom were engaging in precisely the same behavior. It is an apt analogy for the relationship between our politics and the media.

• Congress, Don’t Let Trump Usurp Your Power Over Trade

  SPEAKER: Robert Zoellick

  (Wall Street Journal) – Congress should reassert its constitutional authority over trade. To start, lawmakers should insist on their prerogative to decide whether to retain the North American Free Trade Agreement or adopt President Trump’s proposed replacement.

• Leonardo DiCaprio: ‘The polar photography of Paul Nicklen is a climate change warning’

  SPEAKER: Paul Nicklen

  (iNews) – The Hollywood actor and environmental campaigner highlights the message about global warming behind these beautiful images

• GVNA Executive Leadership Breakfast announces ALS advocate as featured speaker

  SPEAKER: Nancy Frates

  (Gardner News) – GVNA HealthCare has announced that the keynote speaker for the 9th annual Executive Leadership Breakfast will be Nancy Frates, an ALS Advocate whose son, Pete Frates, was the inspiration for the Ice Bucket Challenge.

• Newt Gingrich: Why John McCain was such an inspiration to me

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – John McCain was always pushing the margins, looking for new ideas and trying to find better ways to do things.

• Voters are still devouring Donald Trump’s dark materials

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Times) – If Hillary Clinton were president, Congress would have already impeached her

• Omniex Hires Former SEC And FDIC Execs As Members Of The Board of Advisors

  SPEAKER: Sheila Bair

  (HiBusiness) – Omniex has appointed previous Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) Chairman Sheila Bair as a member of the board of advisors.

• Sean Spicer predicts six more years of President Trump

  SPEAKER: Sean Spicer

  (Irish Examiner) – Former White House press spokesperson Sean Spicer has insisted Donald Trump will remain as US president for six more years, saying the US must come back together and stop undermining its systems of government.

• The Dangerous Myth The U.S. Is Winning The Trade War With China

  SPEAKER: Harry Broadman

  (Forbes) – There’s been a spate of high-profile press headlines and news stories pointing to seeming evidence that the U.S. is winning the trade war with China. 

• How stunning animals in the Arctic & Antarctic really are

  SPEAKER: Paul Nicklen

  (Business Insider) – In his upcoming book, ” Born to Ice ” — which is being published by teNeues and will be released in North America in October — Nicklen has collected photos from the polar north and south.

• From Refugee to One of Ford’s First Female Engineers

  SPEAKER: Damyanti Gupta

  (FordIT) –  Over 300 people attended the FAIA event to meet Damyanti Rani Gupta, a woman who broke multiple barriers inside and outside of Ford.

• Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Forget science (for now); living longer is in your hands

  SPEAKER: Sanjay Gupta

  (CNN) – Ever wonder how much of your longevity is determined by your genes vs. your lifestyle? It has been a scientific debate for years that has even set off an arms race among genetic testing kits and fitness monitors.

• China thinks long-term on financial stability — so should we

  SPEAKER: Sheila Bair

  (Yahoo Finance) – Where are we in the global economic cycle? I wish I had the answer.

• They Appoints Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala & Zoellick to Board of Directors

  SPEAKER: Robert Zoellick

  (PR Newswire) – Twitter, Inc.  today announced the appointments of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Robert Zoellick to Twitter’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) as new independent directors, effective immediately.

• What Veterans of The Financial Crisis Have To Say About The Next One

  SPEAKER: Henry M. Paulson, Jr.

  (SF Gate) – Architects of the government’s response to the last financial crisis worry the country is ill-equipped to handle another, fearing an “amnesia” has taken hold of policymakers, regulators, and the public that could lead to the next panic.

• The World’s 50 Smartest Teens—2018

  SPEAKER: Shubham Banerjee

  (The Best Schools) – Each of them saw a problem that troubled them enough to cause them to use their time, energy, and resources to discover — and in many cases implement — a solution. Yes, these teenagers are inventors, but perhaps more accurately and more importantly, they are problem solvers.

• P.W. Singer: Adapt fast, or fail

  SPEAKER: P.W. Singer

  (The Strategist) – The overwhelming speed of technological development means armed forces must change their approach to everything from who they recruit and train to how targets are attacked and how a nation defends itself.

• Trump boosts Spicer’s new book: It’s ‘really good’

  SPEAKER: Sean Spicer

  (The Hill) – President Trump touted his former White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s upcoming book on his Twitter account Saturday, urging supporters to buy the book, which he called full of “heart and knowledge.”

• Dr. Gupta: After all my years of reporting, this haunts me

  SPEAKER: Sanjay Gupta

  (CNN) – Most of the time when you hear me talking about food, I am talking about the food we eat. But a few years ago, I realized I needed to talk more about the food we DON’T eat.

• Voto Latino aims to register 1 million new Latino voters by 2020

  SPEAKER: Maria Teresa Kumar

  (Fox 23) – Nonprofit Voto Latino wants to register 1 million new Latino voters by 2020, launching this week on-the-ground and digital efforts that target young people.

• Stephen Harper Interview with Maria Bartiromo

  SPEAKER: Stephen Harper

  (Fox) – Former Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper on U.S. trade relations.

• Facebook “Embeds,” Russia and the Trump Campaign’s Secret Weapon

  SPEAKER: Brad Parscale

  (CBS News) – Brad Parscale, digital director for Trump’s campaign, was a critical factor in the president’s election. Now questions surround how he did it

• The Economy is Thriving on Trump’s Reforms

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Nasdaq) – President Trump’s positive impact on the U.S. economy and markets is unassailable.