Q&Q with Alex Talcott

Right from a national cable interview, the former South Carolina congressman-Governor-congressman-again came to a Friday morning Personal Finance class at New Hampshire's Great Bay Community College. In the course, we look at lessons from government and business finance to better understand our challenges and choices.

Introductory interview before we heard the story of the founding and expansion of Chipotle, career advice.

The last of the New England Republican congressmen. Extinct? Mavericky Mainer with prodding professors of the New England Political Science Association.

A talking head who is also always writing, editing, asking...Bill Kristol is entrepreneurially insightful, insatiably inquisitive. He's worked for a Vice President of the United States, a U.S. Secretary of Education, Harvard and Penn, but most often himself.

Recent college graduate sells celebrities private flights, doesn't oversell himself.

Networking, marketing management, immigration, and the state of Maine's economy among the topics with Meadowmere Resort sales & marketing director, Allyson Cavaretta, also a recent (and future?) candidate for the state legislature.

climate change and Green New Deal, lobbyists and PACs, opioid crisis and first responders, Muslim, white nationalism, El Paso, marijuana, veterans, Israel and Palestine, voting rights, criminal justice, Universal Basic Income and Andrew Yang, Kindergarten, minimum wage, student loan debt, community college, paid family leave, gun violence, race, Mexico, Trump voters, Ted Cruz, border wall, Texas, voter turnout, young voters, Houston, diversity, college cost (federal and state aid, affordability, tuition, first generation, English major, loans), John McCain, John Kasich, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, press, Electoral College, gerrymandering and redistricting, Medicare (and immigrants, undocumented), tax returns, taxes, corporate tax rate, Senator Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Theodore Roosevelt on democracy, reparations, African-American civil rights

Topics, mentions: Davy Crockett, Joaquin Castro, goals, veteran homelessness, sustainability, Supreme Court (number of Justices), filibuster, opioid (other drug decriminalization, legalization, medical treatment, addiction), marijuana, employment and wages, universal pre-K, Texas, local lawmaking, taxation, urban and community development, residential and commercial rents Nevada and Denver, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, Beto O'Rourke, Austin, FDR and JFK, Unitarian Universalist, Ted Kennedy, fact-checker God, climate change, grandchildren, California wildfires (forest fires), air pollution, Houston floods, Miami Florida, IPCC, The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells, economy and industries, Iowa, battery

Former Massachusetts Governor, 2016 Libertarian vice presidential nominee, 2020 Republican exploring presidential candidate Bill Weld drops names and knowledge.Topics, mentions:Francis Baconas Governor of MassachusettsFriedrich HayekGary JohnsonFDR, JFK, Churchillgovernment "out of your pocketbook and out of your bedroom"Ronald Reagan's Justice DepartmentDavid Boaz, Cato InstituteNew HampshireCabela'sMoby DickEric HolderJohn KasichNewt Gingrichbalanced budgetorganizational leadership, with CabinetCharlie BakerTip O'NeillJohn Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshallbiotech, software, telecom, medical devicesCouncil on Foreign Relations, NAFTA, Mexico, Canada, Michael Porter of Harvard, Heidi Cruz Business Schoolfree trade and jobsDonald TrumpGeorge WashingtonVladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, Viktor Orban of HungaryGI Bill for displaced workers, like truck drivers. Walmart, wages, middle classdemocracy

U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, considering a run for president at age 38, visits a University of New Hampshire undergraduate business class.Topics / mentions:Bruce Lee quoteSame day as his Politics and Eggs talk (a New Hampshire Primary tradition seen on The West Wing!)General Electric CEO Jeff ImmeltHis ongoing 30-year student loan payback, 3 ideas for student debt reformSen. Cory BookerHe and his wife rent, don't own, their home"We should not root against anyone's success.""things that you can't count, but we count on"China and steel dumping, currency, intellectual property theftIntelligence CommitteeUNH is a land, sea, and space grant universityJohn Lewis, Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-FrankMaxine Waters, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)Stephanie Murphy and Future Forumcorporate homeownership in Californiaa university benefactor, vineyard owner who "escaped" to Northern CaliforniaLittle Kabulcorporate finance, government finance, personal financecampaign schedulenew Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/QandQwithAnext Q&Q podcast guest not a Democrat; others will be from industry, other sectors

Will Congressman Tim Ryan join James Garfield in going directly from U.S. House Representative from Ohio to President of the United States? Will he run or is he running?At my invitation, he included a class visit to an undergraduate business course in Durham, New Hampshire. Rep. Ryan's law degree is from what is now the university's law school (located in Concord, and named for President Franklin Pierce when he attended). He was last in state this past spring, serving as commencement speaker at the law school's graduation exercises. Before going off the record for student conversations, we talked topics in corporate, government, and personal $ broadly.Recruiting businesses to the area - keeping GM, wooing AmazonInfrastructurethe stakeholders, not just shareholders, of a company ("B Corps")TaxesServing on a committee on something that doesn’t exist - the federal budgetChinaSpending and debtPersonal savings & money for an emergency...and boat and vacation homeHomemade pizzaMindfulness & meditation by a former college football player, toward successTim Ryan succeeded James Traficant to Congress in 2003. Traficant went to prison for tax evasion and corruption related charges and lost a comeback bid. Ryan made a leadership challenge to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in 2016, which he did not renew for the 116th Congress convening this year.He's "looking at getting in" to the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.