Speakers in the News

New and Frozen Frontier Awaits Offshore Oil Drilling

By: John H. Broder and Clifford Krauss (The New York Times) -  WASHINGTON — Shortly before Thanksgiving in 2010, the leaders of the commission President Obama…

Wilson Center Tribute: The Elaine Chao Story

The story of Secretary Elaine L. Chao. (See source link.)

Octavia Nasr: Social media were a “megaphone” for the Arab Spring

(IJNet) - Former CNN journalist Octavia Nasr believes that an Arab media awakening is in the making. IJNet talked to the ex-Middle East correspondent Nasr…

O.C. man named Gingrich’s state finance chief

(The Orange County Register) - Eric Beach, a young Costa Mesa businessman and consultant who's already racked up an impressive political resume, was today named…

The CEO’s Role in Business Model Reinvention

By: Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble (Harvard Business Review) - Consider a few of the great innovation stories of the past decade: Google, Netflix, and Skype.…

Undaunted, Octavia Nasr Tweets to New Heights

(The Huffington Post) - She has no regrets, she looks forward to capitalizing on the many opportunities the Middle East has to offer, and she continues…

Why America No Longer Gets Asia

By: Evan A. Feigenbaum (The Washington Quarterly) - In the fall of 2006, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central Asia, I wandered through a bazaar…

The Man Who Said No to Easy Money

(Time) - Late in January, the high priests and priestesses of the U.S. economy gathered inside their Washington sanctum for the regularly scheduled ritual known as…

Hoenig on being the Fed’s lone dissenter: ‘I hope I’m wrong’

(The Kansas City Star) - Tom Hoenig waged the biggest battle of his career with the financial security of most Americans hanging in the balance.

Costs and Benefits of Connection

That things spread from person to person is taken for granted when it comes to gossip and infections. But years ago, as he was beginning…

Goldman Joins JPMorgan On The PR Offensive Against The US Middle Class, As Americans Find A Surprise Champion In The Face Of Fed’s Tom Hoenig

(iStockAnalyst) - "I think there's no reason why as we've done in other instances of (sic) finding the right mechanism to break them into their…

India’s Rise, America’s Interest: The Fate of the U.S.-Indian Partnership

By: Evan A. Feigenbaum (Foreign Affairs) - Until the late 1990s, the United States often ignored India, treating it as a regional power in South Asia…