Speakers in the News

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

(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”

(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),…

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

(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…

Precedents Can Help Us Understand This Unprecedented Crisis

(Toronto Star) – Remember: what worked, what didn’t (and why), and how did we get here are three good questions that may not have an…

Make America Fun Again: Pass a Summer Stimulus Now

(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

(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…

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

(The Washington Post) - A year after Scott Gottlieb resigned unexpectedly as Food and Drug Administration commissioner to return home to his family in Westport,…

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

(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…

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

(Fox News) - Most forefront in our minds is, of course, coronavirus, which continues to infect people across the country and shut down the national…

7 principles for a post-coronavirus economy

(The Washington Post) - The pandemic crisis has laid bare the fact that while our economy was fundamentally strong before the crisis hit, we have…

The Employer Will Test You Now

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

Leadership and Long-Run Experience in a Time of Radical Uncertainty

(BMO) – Experience can guide when it cannot govern.