News May 30, 2020

News Stories

• Save cash and reward shareholders: The case for stock dividends

  SPEAKER: Sheila Bair

  (Yahoo Finance) – Dividends. To cut, or not to cut. That is the question confronting companies throughout the globe as they struggle to conserve enough cash to keep themselves going during a deepening economic downturn.

• How Congress can give Americans an extra $11,000 without costing taxpayers a penny

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – But what if there was a way for Congress to provide American families an $11,000 per year increase in their incomes without costing taxpayers a penny?

• David Frum: After Trump, How Do We Rebuild?

  SPEAKER: David Frum

  (MSNBC) – Author David Frum joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book ‘Trumpocalypse: Restoring American

• Scott Gottlieb on COVID crisis: “This isn’t contained yet”

  SPEAKER: Scott Gottlieb

  (Face The Nation)  – The former FDA commissioner says Americans should exercise caution as they prepare to go out in a “new normal”

• The Future of the Dollar

  SPEAKER: Henry M. Paulson, Jr.

  (Foreign Affairs) – The dollar’s status will be tested by Washington’s ability to weather the COVID-19 storm and emerge with economic policies that allow the country, over time, to manage its national debt and curb its structural fiscal deficit.

• The U.S. Doesn’t Need a New Cold War

  SPEAKER: Robert Zoellick

  (The Wall Street Journal) – Proponents of heightening the conflict with China understate the diplomatic successes of recent years.

• After coronavirus – College football by September and more. Here’s how

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – The question instead should be: “How will we operate so that all sports – college football, professional baseball, professional football, etc. – can be played safely more than three months from now?”

• Democrats can’t keep ignoring this vital campaign issue

  SPEAKER: Jen Psaki

  (CNN) – Senate Republicans should be careful what they wish for — and that includes South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who this weekend said out loud what many of his fellow Republicans are thinking.

• Trump Is Attacking Global Trade. Would Biden Bring It Back?

  SPEAKER: David Frum

  (The Atlantic) – Donald Trump withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership during his first week in office.

• Dim lights, big city

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Boston Globe) – Nothing illustrates with shocking clarity the perils of big city life than the coronavirus pandemic.

• Here’s the Testing Strategy We Need to Safely Reopen America

  SPEAKER: Scott Gottlieb

  (TIME) – Everyone wants to know when we’ll be safe from COVID-19. The answer is we’re probably in for a long fight. We’ll face a persistent risk, maybe until we get a vaccine, or even after. But that risk can be managed, and reduced, if we focus on helping those at the greatest threat of getting the disease.

• Cut Through the Fog of Coronavirus War

  SPEAKER: Scott Gottlieb

  (The Wall Street Journal) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made its first definitive statement last week describing a rare but disturbing condition in children related to Covid-19.

• If the United States were my patient

  SPEAKER: Sanjay Gupta

  (CNN) – The country and the world are facing a serious illness. But, it is treatable. It is fixable. Let’s do this together.

• After Coronavirus, Government Will Have to Shrink

  SPEAKER: Stephen Harper

  (The Wall Street Journal) – When focus shifts from the pandemic to the economy, it will need to shift from a lot more government action to a lot less.

• Life with coronavirus, or the world we might have lost

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Boston Globe) – How much are social mores going to change as a result of the pandemic?

• Antibody Knowledge Can Be Power

  SPEAKER: Scott Gottlieb

  (The Wall Street Journal) – Covid-19 may be here for a long time. As work and activities begin to resume, there will continue to be risk and many new precautions.

• It can still be hard to get a coronavirus test — and that’s not the only problem

  SPEAKER: Sanjay Gupta

  (CNN) – The coronavirus pandemic is nowhere near to being over, yet states are starting to ease restrictions to try to avert economic disaster.

• Coronavirus was a surprise – Amazing technology can give us early warning of future outbreaks

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – In our interconnected world, where communicable diseases can spread so easily and rapidly, we need to be better able to anticipate and track the path of outbreaks. Think how helpful this capability would be for the coronavirus.

• Gottlieb says coronavirus mitigation “didn’t work as well as we expected” in reducing cases

  SPEAKER: Scott Gottlieb

  (Face The Nation) – The former FDA commissioner said new coronavirus cases continue to rise in roughly 20 states.

• It’s an injustice

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Boston Globe) – Growing up in Glasgow, my friends and I liked to quote Calimero sarcastically at anyone who complained about their lot. ‘It’s an injustice, it is!’

• The Cruel Covid ‘New Normal’

  SPEAKER: Scott Gottlieb

  (The Wall Street Journal) – The virus continues to spread. What’s needed now: rapid antigen tests like the one for flu or strep.

• Trump to America: Don’t blame me

  SPEAKER: Jen Psaki

  (CNN) – When the announcement came from the White House on Monday morning that there would be no briefing, there was a sigh of relief.

• Nonprofit Volunteer Surge Launches Effort to Recruit, Train and Deploy 1,000,000 Volunteer Health Workers in Communities across the U.S.

  SPEAKER: George Casey

  (PR Network) – As demand on the U.S. healthcare system continues to surge, new initiative enables free, virtual training for Community Health Workers

• The second wave of the coronavirus pandemic

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Boston Globe) – These days we are all a bit like those Japanese fishermen, cowering beneath a giant wave, the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Coronavirus shouldn’t keep America closed for months – Let’s reopen based on local conditions

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – Clearly, a policy that makes sense for Montana would be a nightmare in New York City.

• America Needs to Win the Coronavirus Vaccine Race

  SPEAKER: Scott Gottlieb

  (The Wall Street Journal) – The first nation to develop a vaccine for Covid-19 could have an economic advantage as well as a tremendous public-health achievement.

• We can return to a pre-coronavirus economy – Here’s how

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – As Americans know all too well, the coronavirus pandemic has forced government at all levels – federal, state, and local – to impose protective measures that amounted to a national shutdown. Many of the measures have been necessary, but they have also been devastating.

• Nature Photographers On What Quarantine Means for the Planet

  SPEAKER: Paul Nicklen

  (Medium) – Cristina and Paul open up about the campaign, what quarantine has meant for the planet, and how we can all celebrate Earth Day.

• The economic legacy of a coronavirus lockdown

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Boston Globe) – The fallout from our disastrous COVID-19 policy could tip us into the worst depression since the 1930s.

• Why Trump and Xi might both lose the corona wars

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Spectator) – The Covid-19 pandemic came along just as Cold War II was getting under way between the United States and the People’s Republic of China

• How to Keep Workers Healthy on the Job

  SPEAKER: Scott Gottlieb

  (The Wall Street Journal) – The threat from Covid-19 won’t end when the epidemic subsides. The recent upsurge in cases in Singapore and Japan shows how easily the virus can re-emerge. It will be a constant threat until an effective vaccine is on the market. So how does America function?

• Treating coronavirus – how an old therapy can help beat a new virus

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – A major key to beating the new coronavirus will be the development of a range of therapies that will let us lead normal lives as we defeat the disease.

• Overreliance on the Fed is compromising the future for millennials

  SPEAKER: Sheila Bair

  (CNBC) – Millennials have been dealt two very bad economic hands during their lifetimes.

• Save Globalisation to Secure the Future

  SPEAKER: Henry M. Paulson, Jr.

  (Financial Times) – The world will be a very dangerous place if we do not fix multilateral institutions

• U.S.-China Coordination Missing in Action on Coronavirus

  SPEAKER: Evan Feigenbaum

  (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) – Despite their strategic rivalry, the United States and China have a history of coordinating in past public health and economic crises. Now that they are tipping into enmity, it may take other countries to nudge them back toward collaboration and joint action.

• The next coronavirus relief bill needs to solve America’s unbanked and unwired crises

  SPEAKER: Fred Hochberg

  (The Hill) – Just two weeks after Congress passed the $2.2 trillion CARES Act to provide relief to businesses and families hammered by the coronavirus lockdown, discussions are turning to another legislative package, which simply must address two urgent problems: Too many Americans don’t have access to banks, and they don’t have high-speed broadband. If they don’t get both soon, they will be in desperate straits.

• Marine life photographer Cristina Mittermeier protects our ‘blue gold’ oceans

  SPEAKER: Cristina Mittermeier

  (HS Insider) – For National Geographic photographer Cristina Mittermeier, protecting the blue in our blue marble of a world has become her life’s work.

• Robert B. Zoellick: “We Tried Autarky in the 1930s. It Didn’t Work Very Well”

  SPEAKER: Robert Zoellick

  (The American Interest) – TAI’s Jeffrey Gedmin recently spoke with Robert B. Zoellick—former President of the World Bank (2007-2012), U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (2005-2006), and U.S. Trade Representative (2001-2005)—about the coronavirus pandemic, relations with China, and his upcoming book about the history of American foreign policy. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

• CNN’s Sanjay Gupta on covering the coronavirus: ‘I think there is intrinsic value to hope’

  SPEAKER: Sanjay Gupta

  (The Washington Post) – Sanjay Gupta, 50, is the Emmy Award-winning chief medical correspondent at CNN. He is also an associate professor of neurosurgery at Emory University and associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

• Make America Fun Again: Pass a Summer Stimulus Now

  SPEAKER: Todd Buchholz

  (The Wall Street Journal) – Send every U.S. household a $500 prepaid debit card to spend later this year in the ‘experience economy.’

• The mystery behind the Fed’s refusal to suspend bank dividends

  SPEAKER: Sheila Bair

  (Yahoo Finance) – The $2.2 trillion stimulus bill recently passed by Congress sensibly restricts large companies getting help under that bill from distributing capital to shareholders or paying outsized executive compensation. These restrictions are not punitive toward shareholders and executives.

• Former FDA chief grabs spotlight with coronavirus plans to ‘turn the lights back on’

  SPEAKER: Scott Gottlieb

  (The Washington Post) – A year after Scott Gottlieb resigned unexpectedly as Food and Drug Administration commissioner to return home to his family in Westport, Conn., he has never been in such demand — advising lawmakers, governors, members of the Trump administration and even the president himself about combating the novel coronavirus.

• Don’t bet on a quick global resurrection amid COVID-19 pandemic

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Globe and Mail) – Who among today’s great economists will write the Economic Consequences of the Plague? Large parts of the world’s economy have been brought to an abrupt standstill by the COVID-19 pandemic.

• To deal with coronavirus crisis, what can we learn from Teddy Roosevelt?

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – Most forefront in our minds is, of course, coronavirus, which continues to infect people across the country and shut down the national economy. Clearly, this pandemic will change the world in profound ways; we just don’t know exactly how yet.

• 7 principles for a post-coronavirus economy

  SPEAKER: Henry M. Paulson, Jr.

  (The Washington Post) – The pandemic crisis has laid bare the fact that while our economy was fundamentally strong before the crisis hit, we have unsustainable levels of income disparity in the United States, with too many people living paycheck to paycheck, afraid of the wolf at the door.

• The Employer Will Test You Now

  SPEAKER: Scott Gottlieb

  (The Wall Street Journal) – Reopening the economy will depend on companies diagnosing coronavirus cases in the workplace.

• Coronavirus — Get ready for life after COVID-19. Here’s what to do today

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – And after each cycle of loss, there has been a rebirth of the American spirit, determination to build a better future, and deep belief that we Americans cannot be defeated or conquered. Instead, we have a compulsion to work toward a bigger, better, more fulfilling life for our children and grandchildren.

• ‘It Tortures Me That I’m Not There Helping.’ Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on the Fight Against COVID-19

  SPEAKER: Scott Gottlieb

  (TIME) – Despite the fact that Gottlieb is working from home, he arguably has been in the public eye more now than at any time since he resigned from the FDA last spring.

• The Supreme Court is tipping the scales toward Trump’s reelection

  SPEAKER: Jen Psaki

  (CNN) – Make no mistake — the conservative justices on the US Supreme Court are making decisions now that could influence the outcome of the November election.

• Science Channel Recruits Former CIA Operative to Investigate Government Secrets in New Series ‘Black Files Declassified’

  SPEAKER: Michael Baker

  (popculture) – The Science Channel is delving deep into secretive government operations with the “unprecedented access” of former CIA operative Mike Baker in its new series, Black Files Declassified.