Podcast appearances and mentions of Max Baucus

Join "Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey  and special guest Charlene Campbell CareyIn this episode of "Dance Talk” ® , host Joanne Carey speaks with Charlene Campbell Carey, the Artistic Director of Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre and president of Ballet Beyond Borders. They discuss Charlene's journey in dance, the unique ballets created in Montana, and the importance of cultural relevance in dance. Charlene shares insights about her organization, which fosters cultural exchange and harmony through dance. She shares the impact of personal loss on her artistic vision. The conversation also touches on the challenges of international collaboration, the role of improvisation in performances, and the exciting future projects and tours planned for Ballet Beyond Borders.Charlene Campbell Carey's career in ballet and choreography began in 1976 and branched into entertainment and diplomacy. Studying ballet in Chicago and training on scholarship throughout high school at the National Academy of Arts, led her to American Ballet Theatre where she also became a member of the faculty and assistant to Director Patricia Wilde. Ms. Campbell danced at Radio City Music Hall, choreographed for Chicago's “Light Opera Works” and served on the faculty for Lou Conte and the Hubbard Street Dance Company.Ms. Campbell's career spans hundreds of ballets, operas, night club acts, and industrials.In 1998, Ms. Campbell founded Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre in Missoula, Montana. 2008, prior to the Olympic Games, Ms. Campbell led the RMBT delegation to Beijing, Guilin, Yangshou, Shanghai, and Suzhou China. The tour was a diplomatic and artistic success, returning to China October 2008 to participate in the Beijing Dance Academy International Ballet Competition as a master teacher and coach.RMBT began a tradition of offering performances in Montana for former Senator Max Baucus, visiting Ambassadors and diplomats. RMBT has toured Europe and participated in an official Trade Mission with Senator Max Baucus to both Brazil and Colombia in 2011. Ms. Campbell continues to create ballets with topics relevant to Montana, showcasing and informing the community about the facts of Ebola, Polio, HPV, Dengue Fever , West Nile , and Influenza. The Gates Foundation utilized the Polio Ballet as an educational tool internationally.RMBT was thrilled to represent the USA & Montana in Gala performances and opening ceremony events for the prestigious Salzburg Music Festival & in collaboration with the Salzburg Ballet in Austria. In 2014, RMBT embarked to China on an official USA State Department tour of the Henan and Guangxi Provinces. RMBT was presented in Beijing by the National Ballet of China at the Tianquio Theater and participated in cultural exchanges throughout the three week tour including a memorable day with the Chinese Disabled Performance Troupe as facilitated by USA Ambassador to China Max Baucus and accompanied by his wife Melodee Hanes Baucus.RMBT currently has an active, unprecedented and successful partnership with Lizt Alfonso in Havana, Cuba. Both USA & Cuba arts organizations are working in harmony via the arts and people to people global understanding projects. The next BBB Festival will be in Cuba January 2025 . BBB also has a feature film in development titled “Rain Balls” which celebrates love and the process of living and dying through a Mother and Childs experience with cancer and chemotherapy.She has continued to teach and choreograph commissions across the United States, Europe, South America and Asia.Learn about RMBT and Ballet Beyond Bordershttps://www.rmbt.org/“Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey wherever you listen to your podcasts. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://dancetalkwithjoannecarey.com/Follow Joanne on Instagram @westfieldschoolofdanceTune in. Follow. Like us. And Share.Please leave a review!“Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey"Where the Dance World Connects, the Conversations Inspire, and Where We Are Keeping Them Real."

Thank you, everybody.  Please have a seat.  You guys can sit down, too.  (Laughter.) Let me begin by saying thank you to a few people -- first of all, your outstanding Governor, Bill Ritter.  Please give Bill a big round of applause.  (Applause.)  Lieutenant Governor Barbara O'Brien.  (Applause.)  Secretary of State Bernie Buescher.  (Applause.)  Your outstanding Mayor, John Hickenlooper.  (Applause.)  Your new Senator, Michael Bennett.  (Applause.)  Your old senator, now my Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar.  (Applause.)  Mark Udall is not here, but give him a round of applause anyway.  (Applause.) One of the outstanding leaders who helped shepherd this process through in record time -- please give Max Baucus of Montana a big round of applause.  Thank you, Max.  (Applause.)  To Secretary Federico Pena, one of my national co-chairs -- I would not be here if it were not for Federico.  Thank you.  (Applause.)  To Representative Diana DeGette, who is a -- we are in her district.  So, thank you so much.  (Applause.)  Representative Betsy Markey.  (Applause.)  Representative Jared Polis.  (Applause.)  Representative Ed Perlmutter.  (Applause.) To all the other elected officials and outstanding leaders who are here.  And to the whole Namaste family and Mr. Jones for outstanding work, congratulations.  Give them a big round of applause.  (Applause.)  And to the best Vice President that we've had in a long time -- Joe Biden.  (Applause.)It is great to be back in Denver.  (Applause.)  I was here last summer -- we had a good time -- (laughter) -- to accept the nomination of my party and to make a promise to people of all parties that I would do all that I could to give every American the chance to make of their lives what they will; to see their children climb higher than they did.  And I'm back today to say that we have begun the difficult work of keeping that promise.  We have begun the essential work of keeping the American Dream alive in our time.  And that's why we're here today.  (Applause.)Now, I don't want to pretend that today marks the end of our economic problems.  Nor does it constitute all of what we're going to have to do to turn our economy around.  But today does mark the beginning of the end -- the beginning of what we need to do to create jobs for Americans scrambling in the wake of layoffs; the beginning of what we need to do to provide relief for families worried they won't be able to pay next month's bills; the beginning of the first steps to set our economy on a firmer foundation, paving the way to long-term growth and prosperity.The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that I will sign today -- a plan that meets the principles I laid out in January -- is the most sweeping economic recovery package in our history. It's the product of broad consultation and the recipient of broad support -- from business leaders, unions, public interest groups, from the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, as well as the AFL-CIO.  (Applause.)  From Democrats and Republicans, mayors as well as governors.  It's a rare thing in Washington for people with such diverse and different viewpoints to come together and support the same bill.   And on behalf of our nation, I want to thank all of them for it, including your two outstanding Senators, Michael Bennett and Mark Udall, as well as all the members of your congressional delegation.  They did an outstanding job and they deserve a big round of applause.  (Applause.) I also want to thank Joe Biden for working behind the scenes from the very start to make this recovery act possible.  I want to thank Speaker Pelosi and Harry Reid for acting so quickly and for proving that Congress could step up to this challenge. I have special thanks to Max Baucus, who's the Chairman of the Finance Committee.  Without Max, none of this would have happened.  He had to work overtime, and push his committee to work overtime.  And I want to thank all the committee chairs and members of Congress for coming up with a plan that is both bold and balanced enough to meet the demands of this moment.  The American people were looking to them for leadership, and that's what they provided.Now, what makes this recovery plan so important is not just that it will create or save 3.5 million jobs over the next two years, including 60,000-plus here in Colorado.  It's that we're putting Americans to work doing the work that America needs done –- (applause) -- in critical areas that have been neglected for too long; work that will bring real and lasting change for generations to come.Because we know we can't build our economic future on the transportation and information networks of the past, we are remaking the American landscape with the largest new investment in our nation's infrastructure since Eisenhower built an Interstate Highway System in the 1950s.  (Applause.)  Because of this investment, nearly 400,000 men and women will go to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, repairing our faulty dams and levees, bringing critical broadband connections to businesses and homes in nearly every community in America, upgrading mass transit, building high-speed rail lines that will improve travel and commerce throughout our nation.Because we know America can't out-compete the world tomorrow if our children are being out-educated today, we're making the largest investment in education in our nation's history.  (Applause.)  It's an investment that will create jobs building 21st century classrooms and libraries and labs for millions of children across America.  It will provide funds to train a new generation of math and science teachers, while giving aid to states and school districts to stop teachers from being laid off and education programs from being cut. In a place like New York City, 14,000 teachers who were set to be let go may now be able to continue pursuing their critical mission.  It's an investment that will create a new $2,500 annual tax credit to put the dream of a college degree within reach for middle-class families and make college affordable for 7 million students -- (applause) -- helping more of our sons and daughters aim higher, reach further, fulfill their God-given potential.  (Applause.)Because we know that spiraling health care costs are crushing families and businesses alike, we're taking the most meaningful steps in years towards modernizing our health care system.  It's an investment that will take the long overdue step of computerizing America's medical records to reduce the duplication and waste that costs billions of health care dollars, and medical errors that cost thousands of lives each year.Further, thanks to the actions we've taken, 7 million Americans who lost their health care along the way will continue to get the coverage they need, and roughly 20 million more Americans can breathe a little easier knowing that their health care won't be cut due to a state budget shortfall.  And a historic commitment to wellness initiatives will keep millions of Americans from setting foot in the doctor's office in the first place -- because these are preventable diseases and we're going to invest in prevention.  (Applause.)So taken together with the enactment earlier this month of a long-delayed law to extend health care to millions more children of working families -- (applause) -- we have done more in 30 days to advance the cause of health care reform than this country has done in an entire decade.  And that's something we should be proud of.  (Applause.)Because we know we can't power America's future on energy that's controlled by foreign dictators, we are taking big steps down the road to energy independence, laying the groundwork for new green energy economies that can create countless well-paying jobs.  It's an investment that will double the amount of renewable energy produced over the next three years.  Think about that -- double the amount of renewable energy in three years.  (Applause.)  Provide tax credits and loan guarantees to companies like Namaste, a company that will be expanding, instead of laying people off, as a result of the plan that I'm about to sign.And in the process, we will transform the way we use energy. Today, the electricity we use is carried along a grid of lines and wires that date back to Thomas Edison -- a grid that can't support the demands of this economy.  This means we're using 19th and 20th century technologies to battle 21st century problems like climate change and energy security.  It also means that places like North Dakota can -- that can produce a lot of wind energy can't deliver it to communities that want it, leading to a gap between how much clean energy we are using and how much we could be using.The investment we're making today will create a newer, smarter electric grid that will allow for broader use of alternative energy.  We will build on the work that's being done in places like Boulder -- a community that's on its -- that's on pace to be the world's first Smart Grid city.  (Applause.)  This investment will place Smart Meters in homes to make our energy bills lower, make outages less likely, and make it easier to use clean energy.  It's an investment that will save taxpayers over $1 billion by slashing energy costs in our federal buildings by 25 percent; save working families hundreds of dollars a year on their energy bills by weatherizing over 1 million homes.  And it's an investment that takes the important first step towards a national transmission superhighway that will connect our cities to the windy plains of the Dakotas and the sunny deserts of the Southwest.Even beyond energy, from the National Institutes of Health to the National Science Foundation, this recovery act represents the biggest increase in basic research funding in the long history of America's noble endeavor to b

We launched Yelp for Biologicals! Check it out at AgList.com. — A principal with Pinion, Brian leads the firm's Government and Public Affairs service area. With a background in environmental law and regulations, he identifies and educates business owners on how to influence and change political systems for a market advantage. Recent successes include: Saving U.S. farmers an estimated $5 billion, collectively, by initiating the Farmers for Tax Fairness coalition to oppose changes to cash accounting, resulting in an ag exemption in the House tax reform draft bill. Leading an ongoing effort to change tax code to allow thousands of mutual ditch, irrigation, and water companies to access private investment to upgrade aging water infrastructure. Led a coalition instrumental in the passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA). USMCA is critical for U.S. agriculture and ensures preferential market access for our farmers. Pulling together a partnership of tribes and dairy farmers to develop a biogas facility and turn dairy manure into 450 kilowatts of power. This effort eliminated a lawsuit threat, increased dairy herd size, and enhanced salmon protection. Helping establish a habitat exchange to offset habitat impacts from mineral development by providing incentives to landowner and industry for land and water stewardship. Brian is a founder of Vela Environmental, a consulting firm supporting long-term business sustainability that became part of the firm in 2013. During the past 20 years, he has served as chief of staff, legislative director, and environmental and energy adviser to U.S. Senator Max Baucus. A leader in sustainability, he was awarded the Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and selected as a U.S.-Japan Leadership Foundation Fellow. — This episode is presented by MyLand. Learn more HERE. — Links Pinion - https://www.pinionglobal.com/people/brian-kuehl/ Resources for Affected USA Employees - https://www.linkedin.com/in/constancebowen/ & https://www.linkedin.com/in/toby-cain-9734b644/

Rebecca Katz, founder of New Deal Strategies, is coming off her second consecutive cycle as General Consultant on signature Democratic Senate wins - including Ruben Gallego in Arizona and John Fetterman in Pennsylvania. In this episode, Rebecca talks in depth about both of those races and the lessons to be mined for Democrats in the future. And she also discusses her early days on Capitol Hill, important lessons learned working for high profile figures like John Edwards and Harry Reid, and much more with one of the most successful operatives working in Democratic politics.IN THIS EPISODERebecca's roots in a politically-engaged family in Philadelphia, PA...Interning on the Hill for her hometown member, Congressman Chakah Fattah...How Rebecca gravitated toward the communications department on campaigns...How she's a different political operative coming out of Philadelphia...How Rebecca knew she didn't want to stay in Washington...Rebecca's front row seat to the chaotic 2004 Iowa Democratic caucus as part of John Edwards' 2004 Presidential campaign...Rebecca's take on John Edwards' raw political talent...Rebecca recalls an incredibly awkward job interview with Senator Harry Reid and how she ultimately ran the Reid War Room to oppose the Bush Administration...Rebecca's first intersection with John Fetterman in 2015 and how his underdog 2016 Senate loss set him up to subsequently win two statewide races...Inside Fetterman's 2022 Senate race over Dr. Oz despite the candidate dealing with serious health complications...Rebecca helps launch Ruben Gallego's 2024 AZ Senate race...How Gallego overperformed the presidential race by 8 points en route to an important win...What other campaigns can learn from Gallego's success among Latino voters...What led Rebecca to start her firm, New Deal Strategies...Rebecca on the role that a General Consultant plays on campaigns...What Rebecca looks for when hiring new staff...Rebecca's most unusual work habit...AND Americans Coming Together, Max Baucus, Central High School, Clark University, Andrew Cuomo, Dean kids, The Fels Institute, JFK Jr., Ted Kennedy, Kari Lake, David McCormick, Jim Messina, Middle Seat, New Jersey Summers, Cynthia Nixon, John Roberts, Bernie Sanders, Allyson Schwartz, Kyrsten Sinema, Snookie, Students for Choice, Harris Wofford...& more!

Are you a business owner struggling to navigate the transition from being deeply involved in daily operations to adopting a more strategic owner and investor role? Understanding the process of business owner evolution is critical for any entrepreneur aiming to scale their business effectively while preparing for future investment opportunities. In the latest episode of Fordify LIVE!, Ford sits down with Alan Pentz, CEO and Founder of Corner Alliance, to discuss the vital steps and strategies involved in this transformation. Alan, who has over twenty years of experience in government consulting and has worked with government leaders across various sectors, shares his unique journey and the insights he has gained. Transitioning from a hands-on operator to a strategic owner and ultimately to an investor in his consulting firm, Alan's story is not just inspiring but also loaded with practical advice for business owners facing similar challenges. This episode dives into the nuances of what it means to evolve as a business owner in today's complex market environment. Alan discusses how his early career as a speechwriter and legislative assistant provided him with a foundation in communication and policy that proved invaluable as he moved into the business sector. His transition was marked by learning to delegate effectively, understanding the importance of strategic planning, and recognizing the need to step back from day-to-day operations to focus on larger growth and investment opportunities. One of the core aspects of Ford and Alan's discussion focuses on the mindset shift required for this evolution. They discuss the importance of seeing beyond immediate business operations and understanding the broader implications of business decisions on growth and scalability. This includes cultivating a robust leadership team that can take over operational responsibilities, allowing the business owner to focus on exploring new ventures and investment opportunities. Furthermore, Alan shares with Ford, how he navigated the challenges that come with scaling a business, from ensuring the right systems and processes are in place to manage growth effectively, to the critical role of understanding financial metrics to drive profitable decisions. These insights are particularly valuable for business owners who find themselves at a plateau, unsure how to move forward or too entangled in daily tasks to strategize for the future. Ford and Alan discuss a range of strategies that Alan employed to overcome common barriers that business owners face during their evolution. Their discussion makes it clear that successful business owner evolution requires both personal growth and organizational restructuring. Watch the full episode on YouTube. To ensure you don't miss out on more enlightening discussions like this one, tune into Fordify LIVE! every Wednesday at 11AM Central on your favorite social platforms. Or be sure to catch The Business Growth Show Podcast every Thursday for your weekly dose of business growth wisdom. This blend of live interaction and weekly insights offers something for every entrepreneur eager to grow and succeed in today's dynamic business environment. About Alan Pentz: Alan Pentz is a seasoned leader and authority in government consulting with a prolific career spanning over two decades. As the founder and CEO of Corner Alliance, Alan specializes in crafting and advancing Federal programs that make a significant impact in areas like broadband, cybersecurity, public safety, and more. His expertise in guiding innovation and R&D initiatives has benefitted a host of government entities, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Commerce, and the National Institutes of Health, as well as state and local governments and nonprofit organizations. Before embarking on his consulting career, Alan served in significant roles within the U.S. government, including as a speechwriter and press secretary for former U.S. Senator Max Baucus, and as a legislative assistant for former U.S. Representative Paul Kanjorski. Alan is also the author of The Small Business Mentor newsletter, where he shares invaluable insights geared towards nurturing small businesses and enhancing digital infrastructure for the 21st century. To learn more about Alan and his initiatives, visit The Small Business Mentor or Corner Alliance. About Ford Saeks: Ford Saeks is a Business Growth Accelerator who brings over two decades of groundbreaking achievements to the entrepreneurial and corporate landscape. As the President and CEO of Prime Concepts Group, Inc., Ford has masterfully driven the success of numerous businesses, generating over a billion dollars in global sales for companies ranging from nimble startups to esteemed Fortune 500 corporations. Known for his dynamic approach to business growth, Ford has a knack for helping companies attract dedicated customers, significantly expand their market presence, and foster innovation. His strategies are not just effective but are also designed to ensure sustainability and adaptability in the rapidly changing business environment. Ford's entrepreneurial spirit is unmatched; he has founded more than ten companies, penned five influential books, secured three U.S. patents, and garnered numerous accolades for his contributions to business and technology. His pioneering work in AI prompt engineering has positioned him as a leader in utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance content creation, thereby boosting engagement and improving business outcomes. Ford demonstrated this cutting-edge expertise at the "Unleash AI for Business Summit," where he discussed the transformative impact of ChatGPT on business operations, marketing, sales, and customer experience. Discover more about Ford Saeks's innovative approaches and get inspired by his insights by visiting ProfitRichResults.com. For a closer look at his strategies in action, tune into his TV show at Fordify.tv, where he continues to share valuable lessons and tips for business growth and success.

In this solo episode, Alan Pentz explores the dynamic AI landscape. Covering the groundbreaking advancements and swift transformations within the field, he delves into the influential roles played by tech giants such as OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Mistral. He underscores the ongoing discourse around regulation in AI, spotlighting the complexities and variances in regulatory approaches worldwide. The discussion touches on the multifaceted realm of AI's impact on governance, with Alan envisioning its potential to revolutionize policy-making through informed, data-driven decisions. Alan's reflection encapsulates a nuanced perspective on the AI landscape, navigating the intricate balance between fostering innovation, understanding risks, and harnessing the transformative potential of AI in shaping the future.

It was an historic class of freshman members to Congress in 1974. It was made up of 17 Republicans and 74 Democrats and many would go on to become household names. They turned the inner workings of the House Chamber upside down, removing longtime chairmen, and opening up the rules for more transparency and more access, in ways that are still with us today. In the midst of all of this Speaker Carl Albert, with his Majority Leader Tip O'Neill , made a decision that one of these freshman needed to be in leadership and he picked the one he thought had the most potential, and the brightest future, John W. Jenrette Jr of the 6th District of South Carolina. In this episode we look back at this class through the eyes of John Jenrette as he recalls the moves that changed an institution. We remember some of the all stars of this class like Paul Tsongas, Paul Simon, Max Baucus, George Miller, Jeff Jeffords, Jim Florio, Henry Hyde,  Tom Harkin, Henry Waxman, Larry Pressler, Butler Derrick, and the one member still serving in Congress today, now Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa.  They left a mark on their times, so much so, they were all the subject of an extraordinary book "The Class of '74" by John Lawrence.We use excerpts from the author's excellent interviews available on You Tube ,where he discusses the 1974 class and its impact.  https://youtu.be/E2MfhV8Ax0w An Interview with John Lawrence, author of "The Class of '74." - R Street InstituteJohn Lawrence , was a former Chief of Staff to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and worked for a while under Congressman George Miller, a member of the 1974 class. The book on the class received rave reviews like this one:"If you want to know how we got to this bitterly partisan time in politics, read this book. Through hundreds of fascinating interviews plus rigorous research, Lawrence shows us how unintended consequences of congressional 'reforms' started the country along this poisonous path. "-- Cokie RobertsWe highly recommend the book and include a link to the Amazon page here https://www.amazon.com/Class-74-Congress-Watergate-Partisanship/dp/142142469XIt was a historic moment in the history of the Congress and our Congressman John Jenrette was in the center of the action, a place he always seemed to be....The Realists UncensoredHey future listeners, it's Checkers and MJ here and we are two American men that are...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify AgriFutures On AirThe official podcast channel for AgriFutures Australia. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Bloomberg Washington Correspondent Joe Mathieu delivers insight and analysis on the latest headlines from the White House and Capitol Hill, including conversations with influential lawmakers and key figures in politics and policy.  On this edition, Joe speaks with: Max Baucus, Former U.S. Ambassador to China/Former U.S. Senator from Montana/Former-Chair of the Senate Finance Committee on the bank hearings and on the debt ceiling Bloomberg Politics Contributors Jeanne Sheehan Zaino and Rick Davis on the debt ceiling, Biden's upcoming planned trips and bank hearings Joe, along with co-host Kailey Leinz also speaks with: Rachael Dean Wilson, managing director, Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund on the findings of the Durham special counsel report of the FBI's probe into whether or not Donald Trump conspired with Russia to interfere with the 2016 election Plus, excerpts from conversation Kailey had with lawmakers today on debt ceiling talks, bank hearings and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Washington, there is now a bipartisan consensus around being tough on China. This was happening even before the Chinese sent a spy balloon drifting across the United States. Last month, by a vote of 365-65, the House created a new “Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.” And with China hawks now dominating the thinking of both parties when it comes to Sino-U.S. relations, Deep Dive host Ryan Lizza decided to check in with Max Baucus, who is one of the leading voices warning that the hawks have things dangerously wrong.  Baucus was the U.S. ambassador to China from 2014 to 2017. Before that he was, depending on the year, the chairman or ranking member of the very powerful Senate Finance Committee. And in this fascinating interview, he's surprisingly critical of Republicans and Democrats alike for muddling the U.S. relationship with China in order to score political points at home. Ryan Lizza is a Playbook co-author for POLITICO. Max Baucus is the former U.S. Ambassador to China.  Afra Abdullah is an associate producer for POLITICO audio. Kara Tabor is a producer for POLITICO audio. Alex Keeney is a senior producer for POLITICO audio. Brook Hayes is a senior editor for POLITICO audio. Jenny Ament is the executive producer for POLITICO audio.

Joe spoke with Max Baucus, former U.S. Ambassador to China on relations with China, the Chinese global balloon espionage program, and the object the U.S. shot down over Alaska. Harvey Pitt, CEO of Kalorama Partners and former Chairman of the SEC on Gary Gensler's warning to the crypto industry after reaching a settlement with trading platform Kraken over staking. Plus, our politics panel, Bloomberg Politics Contributors Rick Davis and Jeanne Sheehan Zaino on the unidentified object shot down over Alaska, SEC crypto crackdown, President Biden accusing Republicans of wanting to sunset social security and the GOP pushback, more documents found in former VP Mike Pence's home and Donald Trump's lawyers turn over a folder with classification markings found last month at his Florida Mar-a-Lago resort, and the George Santos Newsmax interview and his feud with Senator Mitt Romney. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Monica P. Medina ( https://www.state.gov/biographies/monica-p-medina/ ) is Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. She was also recently appointed as United States Special Envoy for Biodiversity and Water Resources. Previously, Secretary Medina was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. She was also a Senior Associate on the Stephenson Ocean Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Co-Founder and Publisher of Our Daily Planet, an e-newsletter on conservation and the environment. A former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, Secretary Medina served as General Counsel of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense. Earlier in her career, Secretary Medina served as the Senior Counsel to former Senator Max Baucus on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, as the Senior Director for Ocean Policy at the National Geographic Society, as the ocean lead at the Walton Family Foundation, and in senior roles in other environmental organizations. Secretary Medina attended college on an Army R.O.T.C. scholarship and began her career on active duty in the Army General Counsel's Office. She received the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service and the Army Meritorious Service Medal. She has a Bachelor's degree in history from Georgetown University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. Support the show

Follow Me On Twitter => https://twitter.com/AltcoinPodcast Youtube Channel => https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCanKqPAQ0hUWjHrm_DChMVA/featured "According to a report by the Washington Post, federal prosecutors in the U.S. are currently investigating the relationship between Binance and U.S.-based hedge funds. This is part of a larger investigation into the possible evasion of money-laundering measures by Binance. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington in Seattle has reportedly sent subpoenas to firms requesting records of their dealings with Binance. It's worth noting that these subpoenas do not necessarily mean that authorities will bring charges against Binance or its CEO, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao. Federal authorities are still discussing a potential settlement with Binance and are evaluating whether they have sufficient evidence to bring charges. However, the fact that subpoenas have been issued does indicate that the investigation is serious and that authorities are taking it very seriously. Binance, the largest crypto exchange by daily trading volume, has faced significant media and regulatory scrutiny in recent months, especially following the multi-billion-dollar implosion of FTX, which shook investor confidence in the volatile and troubled cryptocurrency market. In the past, Binance has been accused of finding legal loopholes and circumventing regulations in order to operate in various jurisdictions around the world. The company's lack of identification requirements has raised concerns about its involvement in money laundering, according to a former DOJ prosecutor cited by the Washington Post. Additionally, a Reuters report from last year alleged that Binance has been used as a "hub for hackers, fraudsters, and drug traffickers" with connections to the Russia-based dark web marketplace, Hydra. Some have also criticized Binance's financial transparency. A representative from Nansen, a blockchain data analytics company, recently told CoinDesk TV's "First Mover" that there is limited on-chain data or financial access to Binance's entities. Despite this, Binance has made efforts to increase its commitment to compliance, increasing its security and compliance staff by 500% in 2022. The company also established a global advisory board last fall, chaired by former Democratic senator Max Baucus. Binance has also become active in crypto lobbying in Washington, D.C., possibly in an effort to improve relations with the U.S. government. It's worth noting that Binance is not the only cryptocurrency exchange that has come under scrutiny for its business practices and financials. Many exchanges have faced similar regulatory and media scrutiny, as the cryptocurrency industry as a whole is still relatively new and regulatory frameworks are still being developed. However, Binance's status as the largest exchange by daily trading volume does make it a high-profile target for investigation. It's not yet clear what the outcome of this investigation will be, or how it will impact Binance and the wider cryptocurrency industry. However, we will be sure to keep you updated as more information becomes available. Thank you for watching." --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cryptopodcast/support

This week's guest is Jeff Immelt, former CEO of General Electric and current venture partner at New Enterprise Associates. Jeff will be speaking at the University of Montana on September 27th as part of the Baucus Center's Stockman Bank Speaker Series. He was kind enough to join Justin for a conversation in advance of his visit. Justin and Jeff speak about shocks and crises and a course at Stanford Jeff teaches called Systems Leadership. As a teacher, Jeff reflects on the importance of mental health in student populations and how he's noticed students today are more place restrictive when they look at their careers. Justin asks Jeff his thoughts on the popular perception that people just don't want to work anymore, and what he advises young people when they say they want to make a difference. Tune into Jeff's talk with Max Baucus at the University of Montana on Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. Tickets are available at umt.edu/law. Transcript here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PMmJSXW5nvGxUke66zLLC_EDe7sMGzUoYiwQyjWLD-4/edit

Carole speaks to former US Ambassador to China and former US Montana senator Max Baucus about worsening relations between the US and China.

Peter is a political activist, most famously as a pioneering member of ACT UP — the grassroots AIDS group that challenged and changed the federal government. He founded both the Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the educational website AIDSmeds.com. An old friend and sparring partner, he also stars in the Oscar-nominated documentary “How to Survive a Plague.” Check out his memoir, Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism.You can listen to the episode — which gets fiery at times — in the audio player above (or click the dropdown menu to add the Dishcast to your podcast feed). For two short clips of my convo with Peter — on how he and other AIDS survivors turned to meth, and Peter pushing back on my views of critical queer theory in schools — pop over to our YouTube page. There’s also a long segment on just the monkeypox stuff. If that episode isn’t gay enough for you, we just posted a transcript of the episode last year with Katie Herzog and Jamie Kirchick. Both of these Alphabet apostates were on Real Time last month — here’s Jamie:Katie appeared alongside this clapped-out old bear:Come to think of it, two more Dishcast alums were on the same episode of Real Time last month — Michael Shellenberger and Douglas Murray:Oh wait, two more in June — Cornel West and Josh Barro:We now have 20 episodes of the Dishcast transcribed (check out the whole podcast archive here):Bob Woodward & Robert Costa on the ongoing peril of TrumpBuck Angel & Helena Kerschner on living as trans and detransKatie Herzog & Jamie Kirchick on Pride and the alphabet peopleDominic Cummings on Boris, Brexit and immigrationCaitlin Flanagan on cancer, abortion and other Christmas cheerGlenn Greenwald on Bolsonaro, woke journalists and animal tortureJonathan Haidt on social media’s havocYossi Klein Halevi on the origins of ZionismFiona Hill on Russia, Trump and the American DreamJamie Kirchick on the Lavender ScareJohn McWhorter on woke racismJohn Mearsheimer on handling Russia and ChinaRoosevelt Montás on saving the humanities Michael Moynihan on Afghanistan and free speechCharles Murray on human diversityJonathan Rauch on dangers to liberalismChristopher Rufo on critical race theory in schoolsMichael Shellenberger on homeless, addiction and crimeCornel West on God and the great thinkersWesley Yang on the Successor IdeologyA Dishcast listener looks to last week’s episode and strongly dissents:I enjoyed your interview with Matthew Continetti. Unfortunately, an exchange at the end reminded me of why I had to reluctantly tune you out for years: your hero worship of Obama. I respect and admire the way you call out the failures and excesses of both sides, including those of mine (the right), which I acknowledge were glaring even before Trump. During the Obama years, however, it was hard not to cringe when I watched you tear up on Chris Matthews’s show and compare him to a father figure. I also recall you yelling at SE Cupp and aggressively pointing a finger at her on Bill Maher’s show for daring to compare the foreign policies of Obama and W Bush:It’s hard to imagine anyone with that kind of emotional response being objective, and sadly, you never were during his presidency.You argued with Continetti that Obama was a middle-of-the-road pragmatist, when nothing could be further from the truth. He came into office with the economy reeling in a banking and housing crisis, and he took the Rahm Emmanuel approach of never letting a crisis go to waste. Even before his inauguration, he begin planning to rush through major legislation on healthcare, climate, and education. These may be worthy goals, but they are not the actions of a pragmatist who wants to govern by addressing the problems of the moment. He then outsourced the stimulus bill to Pelosi, which was a pork-filled bonanza with almost nothing even remotely stimulative. He refused to incorporate any Republican ideas into the healthcare legislation and arrogantly said to McCain that “the election’s over” when McCain voiced some opposition. Obama then lied in selling the bill to the American people by saying you would be able to keep your plan and your doctor in all cases.When Obama lost his congressional majority, he resorted to gross lawlessness, taking executive actions that exceeded his constitutional authority on everything from carbon emissions to insurance company appropriations to immigration, including on measures that were recently voted down by Congress or (as Continetti noted) he previously acknowledged he lacked the constitutional authority to do. He even flouted his ability to do this — knowing the media would cover for him — by saying he had “a pen and a phone.”Obama was one of the more divisive presidents in history. Every speech followed the same obnoxious shtick of chiding Republicans for playing politics and claiming that he alone was acting in the national interest. We saw this again, even post-presidency, during the funeral of John Lewis. For once, both sides came together, and even Republicans celebrated the achievements of a genuine American hero.  But during Obama’s speech, he turned the event into a partisan tirade about voting rights, calling the filibuster a Jim Crow relic (never mind that he used as a Senator).Finally, you argued that Republicans never gave Obama a chance. Not true. When he was inaugurated, his approval ratings were among the highest on record and were even above 40 percent among Republicans. They plummeted among Republican voters because he refused to ever take their concerns seriously or acknowledge that they had any legitimate points. When he finally did something they had even slight agreement with, the Trans Pacific Partnership, most Republicans supported him, while much of his own party opposed him.I respect your objectivity and believe that you are largely back to it. But I’m hoping the next time someone you love comes along, you will remain able to see the forest from the trees. (And sorry about the War and Peace-length email. There isn’t another intellectual I’m aware of who would actually welcome a dissent like that, which is why I wish I became a subscriber sooner.)That’s a lot of political history to litigate, but if you think I was blindly supporting Obama, read “The Fierce Urgency of Whenever,” “Obama’s Marriage Cowardice,” “Obama’s New War: Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb,” “Obama’s Two New Illegal Wars,” “Is Obama A Phony On Torture?”, “Obama Is Now Covering Up Alleged Torture,” “Obama’s Gitmo Disgrace,” “Obama To The Next Generation: Screw You, Suckers,” my reaction to his townhall comments on cannabis, “Behind the Obama Implosion,” and my excoriation of his first debate against Romney, if you remember.Obama’s healthcare proposal originally came from the Heritage Foundation; it was the most conservative measure to move us to universal healthcare access available; he passed it; and it remains the law because Republicans realized it was too popular to repeal. If that’s what you call extremism, you have a different definition of the word than I do.His stimulus was — yes — insufficient to the moment. But that’s because it veered toward a fiscal prudence long abandoned by the GOP. And he put it before any other priority. The GOP still refused to give this new president in an economic crisis any support at all, and acted as if the Bush debacle had never happened.Another listener defends the former president’s record — to a point:Obama had one chance to pass health care reform — something presidents had been trying and failing to do for several decades. In reality he had a razor-thin margin, especially in the Senate. He spent months letting moderates like Max Baucus take the lead in Congress. He gave moderate Republicans like Olympia Snowe endless time to pretend to be willing to vote for a centrist bill. Remember: this was largely RomneyCare, an already moderate Republican policy idea and one which had originally come out of a conservative think tank.In the end, no matter how much Big Pharma and other healthcare lobbies had to be bribed and how much Obama compromised — no public option; no federal negotiation via Medicare to lower drug prices — the moderate Republicans had strung him along. He had to give Ben Nelson goodies to get his vote. And, overall, as much as the bill was a corporate sellout, it still — and 12 years on it’s so easy to forget this — still made massively important reforms the public was desperate for: it expanded family access for kids up to 26; it ended the rampant abuse of preexisting conditions to deny coverage; it ended retroactive rescissions in which insurance employees were tasked to comb through patient records and fine print to find pretexts for dumping patients when they needed care the most; it ended lifetime caps on coverage for things like major early childhood diseases and illnesses and catastrophic illnesses in adults; and of course it expanded access to Medicaid (most people don’t realize how stunningly low one’s income has to be to qualify). ObamaCare, flaws and all, was necessary — and a major step forward. There was no Republican compromise to be had in 2010 or ever. Remember what Mitch McConnell said his #1 priority was? Ensuring Obama was a one-term president with no major successes to campaign on. They simply wanted the legislation to crash and burn, similar to how it did in 1994. DACA and DAPA and the rest? Very very different story. And I agree with Continetti: Obama did not have that authority and he knew he didn’t. And after the Gang of Eight fell apart, his second term was all about caving to radical, often openly ethnically chauvinistic, identitarian, open borders advocates. And that’s where the Democratic Party has been stuck ever since. Executive decisions like DACA were a big part of why I soured on the Obama administration. ObamaCare, flawed as it was, was a big reason I volunteered so heavily for Obama in 2012. We’re still not close to the kind of publicly guaranteed, universal health care virtually all peer countries and allies enjoy. But we’re closer due to ObamaCare. And that’s a clear example of what Democrats can accomplish when they’re focused on passing the best bill they can pass (by the barest of margins) for the common good. For the record (see the Daily Dish links above), I also opposed the Libya war, the Iraq surge, and the DACA executive overreach. This next reader is more sympathetic to Obama on DACA:Deporting kids who have never known another country has a 19 percent approval rating. Obama begged Congress for years to do something to correct this. So is the Continetti position that Obama needed to do something that more than 80 percent of Americans don’t want because far-right extremists are holding Boehner hostage? If that is your position, then it’s fundamentally undemocratic.Another clip from last week:Yet another take on the Continetti convo:I’m a moderately liberal person, and I listen to conservative voices to hear good arguments that make me consider more deeply my innate biases. But the conservatism described by Continetti is just uninteresting. Describing the 1964 Civil Rights Act as too large an overreach? Talking about constitutionalism in the same way that Alito does — as frozen, depending upon the section, in either 1789 or 1868? Dissing Obamacare?Obamacare is a big improvement on pre-ACA insurance, and I’m glad Obama persevered after Ted Kennedy's death. Healthcare has a lot of moving parts, but finally we have an individual insurance market with plans as good as those in the employer group market. My kids have used it at various times switching between jobs and school, or even instead of a law school's highly mediocre plan. One of my biggest problems with Biden is that he hasn’t even managed to get the subsidy income limit, which was lifted by the pandemic relief bill, made permanent. My biggest problem with Biden is that I expected that he’d be able to negotiate with someone like Manchin, who’s dim but probably willing to support something. Cranking up the ACA subsidies and funding some solar panel research and LWTR reactor prototypes, with the work being done in part in West Virginia?  It can’t be that hard to cut some deal. Instead, we seem to have nothing.So, until the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs, I figured the Dems would get wiped out in '22 and '24. I figured the combination of trans-positive teaching in lower schools and race essentialism everywhere would lead to races like the Virginia governor election, where someone with a sane approach to schools would dominate. Dobbs may change all that.  From a small sample of Republican suburban voters I know, a lot of people are furious at the Court’s decision. They rightly view it as an ignorant decision that makes even pregnancy for wealthy women in red states far more dangerous than it was, since a partial miscarriage with lots of bleeding — not a rare event by any means — will now require sign-off from a hospital’s legal staff before a lifesaving D&C can be performed, by which time a pregnant woman may well be dead. And while Republicans typically don’t mind making life miserable for poor people (fun fact: a family of four has to have an income below $4,700 per year to get Medicaid in Mississippi), f*****g over the upper middle class will not go over nearly as well.Keeping with the abortion theme, another reader:This caught my eye in your most recent podcast email: “[T]he question of when human life becomes a human person is a highly debatable one.”First, thank you for stating the issue correctly! The issue is NOT when HUMAN LIFE begins. Science has answered that question definitively: at conception. It’s not a “theory,” religious or philosophical doctrine or anyone’s “opinion,” and it’s not debatable. We may not know everything that happens during conception, but no embryologist denies that it’s the beginning of human life. The term “person” is not scientific, and that’s why I avoid using it when debating abortion with non-believers. As I’ve noted before, the term “person” arose out of debates about the relations among the Three Persons of the Trinity in the run-up to the council of Nicea. Before that, the Latin term “persona” just referred to public citizenship. Slaves were not legally persons. The Christian philosophers made it into a much richer and more resonant concept, in order to explain that God could be one God but three “persons” — a way of saying that if God is Love, love is not a monism but a mode of relationality. Anyway, for purposes of modern discussion of abortion, the term “person” now means something close to what the pagan Roman meaning of “person” was: a human being legally granted rights by the state, including the right to life. In other words, some human beings are not “persons.”This distinction is morally troubling and creates issues for defenders of abortion. If it’s really up to the state to say who is or is not a “person,” why stop at the unborn? In the Roman Empire, and in later periods (including our own history, of course), slaves were not legally considered full “persons.”Is “personhood” a sliding scale, or an absolute state of being? Can you have “more” or “less” personhood? Are comatose (but stable) human beings persons, or do they lose their legal rights to life, as many seem to think? What about the conscious but mentally challenged? Do high-IQ people have more “personhood” than low-IQ people? You see where this is going, I’m sure. I’ve had many discussions about this, and there is NO criterion that denies full personhood to the unborn that cannot also be used to deny it to the already-born. I think once you hive off human rights from the status of being human, and attach them to some scientifically indefinable status like “personhood,” you go down a tricky path. Because you’re right, of course. “Personhood” is endlessly debatable, because it’s a philosophical and (ultimately) theological concept. It’s like arguing “Who has a soul, and who doesn’t?”But in our tribally inclined species, the question quickly becomes, who is “human” (i.e, like “us”) and who is “other” (i.e., not really “human”) — with the “other” not possessing the same rights. Most names of tribes for themselves translate to “the Human Beings” or “the People” — with anyone outside the tribe being less than human. (Did you ever see Little Big Man?)Of course, as a Christian I believe ALL human beings are also persons, no matter their mental state, helplessness, poverty or low social status. I also agree that all human beings are images of God. For purposes of argument with non-believers, rather than get side-tracked into personhood, I prefer to say that human rights are anchored in (inherent in) humanness, not “personhood.” This requires abortion advocates (if they have the slightest thoughtfulness or openness to engage in actual discussion) to explain how some human beings aren’t “persons” and who gets to make that determination. But any honest abortion defender who doesn’t want to deny non-contestable science must make that distinction.Here’s the difference between personhood in abortion and every other area. One person is literally inside another person’s body. In a society based on property rights, the body itself — “habeas corpus” — is central to freedom and autonomy. Another reader turns to sexuality:I was struck by one of the dissents you ran last week: “No mention of the 63 million babies who were murdered in the last 49 years, but oh how well you stand up for women and their right to have as many one-night stands as they want without consequences, guilt, or their morality even being questioned.”The second half of that sentence is so interesting. The dissenter is not only offended by potential babies not being born, but also by women having sexual fun without life-altering consequences. To the dissenter, one-night stands are an evil (at least, on the part of the woman), and going through a public pregnancy (look at her! shame!) and having babies (no career for her!) is the least punishment the female participants should deserve. The lost babies are bad, but even worse, look at what all those loose women are getting away with!I’ve always had a sneaking suspicion that some part of the opposition to abortion in this country is actually driven by people who want to bring back 1950s prudery. They see abortion as an evil precisely because it allows more sexual pleasure — and even more galling, more sexual pleasure on the part of women (because this 1950s prudery so often seems to carry 1950s misogyny along with it). Of course we know many abortion opponents are deeply moved by love for potential babies that aren’t born, but this dissenter shows there’s at least one person out there celebrating Dobbs for the renewed opportunities abortion bans will provide to scare women out of sex or, failing that, shame them and derail their careers as punishment.Another reader turns the focus to me:For some context, I am a Christian who has spent most of my life in the evangelical subculture, but I am more moved in worship by liturgical forms. I am politically anti-Trump and I am abhorred by the current state of the Republican Party, though I am a lifelong Republican. Call me David French-like.I am responding to your dissent from the conservative writer and your comment that consent between adults is the sole limiting factor in sexual behavior. You have likely been asked and answered this question many times, so just send me a link if that’s easier for you: Since you are a Christian, what role does the Bible and/or church teaching have in your understanding of human sexuality? One could argue that in addition to consent, the Bible speaks of fidelity, monogamy, love, nurture, self giving, mutual submission, and adoration in sexual relationships. How do you treat the foregoing characteristics (or others) in your sexual ethic? Does your Christian faith have any role to play in your sexual ethics?I enjoy your writing and the Dishcast, keep it up. Guest suggestions: Kevin Williamson. (He had deep dissents on gay marriage, but culturally that train has left the station, and as you know, he has the added benefit of having been fired by The Atlantic three days after hiring — an early example of cancel culture by the insulated Left). Also Jonah Goldberg.I responded to some of these points on the main page. But I’ve written much more widely on this question — and I recommend Out On A Limb for the rest. The essay “Alone Again, Naturally,” comes closest to answering. But I do not share orthodox Christianity’s Augustinian terror of the body and its pleasures. Your guest suggestions are always appreciated: dish@andrewsullivan.com. Here’s one more from a “20-year Dishhead writing for the first time”:I think Iain McGilchrist would be a great guest for the pod — and for TWO episodes, since the ideas in his recent work are so vast, complex, and far-reaching. (I encountered his earlier book on the Daily Dish.) It seems like IMcG is really working to get out his incredibly important, expansive, but very difficult project out and a couple of good conversations with you would be a great way of doing that, not to mention fascinating for us Dishcast listeners.Thanks for everything that you and Chris are doing with The Weekly Dish — trying to help us all think clearly and openly. My wife and I both appreciate having your voice in our lives each week. She especially likes the dissents!Subscribe to read them all — along with everything else on the Dish, including the View From Your Window contest. There are also gift subscriptions if you’d like to spread the Dishness to a loved one or friend — or a frenemy to debate the dissents with. Get full access to The Weekly Dish at andrewsullivan.substack.com/subscribe

Guests: Texas Republican Congressman Michael McCaul, former Montana Senator and U.S. Ambassador to China, Max Baucus, Bloomberg politics reporter Ryan Teague Beckwith, Bloomberg Politics Contributor Jeanne Sheehan Zaino, and Republican media strategist Adam Goodman. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Celinda Lake, President of Lake Research, has been a leading Democratic researcher and strategist for 30+ years. In this conversation she talks her Montana roots, her path to polling, working for groundbreaking women like Geraldine Ferraro, Carol Mosley Braun, and Nancy Pelosi, working on Biden 2020, and lessons & insights from four decades working to elect Democrats and advance progressive goals. IN THIS EPISODE…Celinda talks growing up on a ranch in Montana…The progressive tradition in Montana…The Vietnam War influences Celinda's politics…Celinda's theory on why Montana produces so much political talent…Celinda moves from the academic world to the campaign world…Celinda tells the story of one of her heroes, the first woman pollster in politics…The first races on which Celinda cut her teeth as a political pollster…Celinda remembers lessons learned from heading up focus groups for Clinton-Gore '92…The origins and rise of Lake Research…The story of turning down a US Senator who wanted to work with Lake Research…How Celinda thinks of issue messaging…Celinda talks the challenges women candidates face…Celinda's memories of working with trailblazers Geraldine Ferraro, Barbara Mikulski, Carol Mosley Braun, and Nancy Pelosi…Celinda polls for AOC during her 2018 upset…What Celinda knows about Joe Biden that might not be common knowledge…Celinda's take on what makes a good pollster…Celinda's strangest work habit…AND….22 rifles, Spence Abraham, John Anzalone, Jerry Austin, David Axelrod, the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, Matt Barreto, Max Baucus, Jill Biden, Valerie Biden, Heather Booth, blueberry muffins, Ron Brown, James Carville, the cat's meow, Hillary Clinton, Copper Kings, country schools, Joe Crowley, Mike Donilon, EEOC lawyers, Emerge, EMILYs List, fitbits, Kathleen Frankovic, Anderson Gardner, gatekeeping, Geoff Garin, Geneva, the gender gap, Ed Goeas, Mandy Grunwald, Stan Greenberg, Bill Hamilton, Kamala Harris, Gary Hart, Peter Hart, Harrison Hickman, Higher Heights, Italian city-states, Justice Democrats, George Lakoff, Joe Lamson, Ed Lazarus, Silas Lee, Ann Lewis, looking for patterns, Mike Lux, Dotty Lynch, mainframes, Nelson Mandela, Mike Mansfield, Mark Mellman, Jim Messina, Lee Metcalf, Warren Miller, Barbara Mikulski, Walter Mondale, Motown, new voices, Northern Plains Resource Council, Kathleen O'Reilly, Ross Perot, John Podesta, Lana Pollack, Bob Putnam, the race-class narrative, ranked-choice voting, Jeanette Rankin, Ready to Run, Ronald Reagan, red state sensibilities, Nelson Rockefeller, Steve Rosenthal, Anat Shenker-Osorio, Smith College, Alysia Snell, social proof, Social Security cards, Doug Sosnik, Debbie Stabenow, Gail Stoltz, student deferments, Phil Tawney, Jon Tester, two for one, University of Michigan, Kathy van Hook, Women's Campaign Fund, The Women's Lobby, Pat Williams, & more!

A reading of Max Baucus' recent essay.This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US. This week's “Long Reads Sunday” reading is Max Baucus' “The Urgent Need for Regulatory Clarity on Stablecoins.” -Nexo is a powerful, all-in-one crypto platform where you can securely store your crypto. Invest, borrow, exchange and earn up to 17% APR on Bitcoin and 20+ other top coins. Insured for $375M. Audited in real-time by Armanino. Rated excellent on Trustpilot. Get started today at nexo.io.-Abra is proud to sponsor The Breakdown. Join 1M+ users and Conquer Crypto with Abra, a simple and secure app where you can trade 110+ cryptocurrencies, get 0% interest loans using crypto as collateral, and earn interest with up to 14% APY on stablecoins and 8.15% APY on Bitcoin. Visit Abra.com to get started.-FTX US is the safe, regulated way to buy Bitcoin, ETH, SOL and other digital assets. Trade crypto with up to 85% lower fees than top competitors and trade ETH and SOL NFTs with no gas fees and subsidized gas on withdrawals. Sign up at FTX.US today.-“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is “Time” by OBOY. Image credit: Lintao Zhang/Getty Image News, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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On today's show, former U.S. Ambassador to China and U.S. Senator, Max Baucus, makes a call for regulatory clarity on stablecoins.Read the story here.This episode is sponsored by Kava.This episode was edited & produced by Adrian Blust-Kava lets you mint stablecoins, lend, borrow, earn and swap safely across the world's biggest crypto assets. Connect to the world's largest cryptocurrencies, ecosystems and financial applications on DeFi's most trusted, scalable and secure earning platform with kava.io.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Former Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and former ambassador to China talks to Chuck about why he believes the filibuster should be preserved ... but could be reformed.

Luke Jones sits in for Matt Chorley and discusses what does China want with former US ambassador to China under the Obama administration Max Baucus, MEP and co-chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China Reinhard Hans Bütikofer and Senior Research Fellow at RUSI Veerle Nouwens.PLUS columnists Carol Lewis and James Marriott on Plan B, Christmas Parties and taking pride in Britain's past. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In response to high morbidity and mortality rates caused by an environmental health disaster due to asbestos mining in Libby and northwest Montana, Sen. Max Baucus added a section, Amendment 1881 A to the Social Security Act as a provision to the Affordable Care Act as it was drafted in 2009-10. The intent was to enroll everyone in the affected areas of Libby, Montana and the northwest area of the state in the national Medicare program - without qualifications.The model of provision of Medicare for All to Libby, Montana provides a roadmap to the extension of healthcare to all who are subject to COVID-19 virus and other health threats.Produced at Denver Open Media by Michele SwensonMore Truthseekers - Health Justice PodcastsSupport the show (https://www.denveropenmedia.org/podcast/library#truthseekers)

This episode features a discussion about Access to Capital across the region. Host JB Holston is joined by Peter Scher (Vice Chairman, JP Morgan Chase & Co.) founder and the Chairman of the Greater Washington Partnership, in conversation with Ellis Carr (President and CEO, Capital Impact Partners & CDC Small Business Finance).Hosted by JB Holston. Produced by Maribeth Romslo and Nina Sharma. Edited by Christian Rodriguez. Engineered by Micah Johnson. With support from Jenna Klym, Justin Matheson-Turner, and Christian Rodriguez.SPEAKER BIOSPETER SCHERPeter L. Scher is Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and a member of the firm's Operating Committee. Scher is the firm's senior business executive for the Mid-Atlantic Region and oversees the firm's global Corporate Responsibility department, including its public policy efforts, the J.P. Morgan International Council and Morgan Health, a new business unit focused on improving the quality of healthcare for the firm's employees and creating new models for employer-based healthcare.Scher led the firm's $200 million investment in the revitalization of Detroit, which has been featured on 60 Minutes, profiled by Fortune Magazine in ranking JPMorgan Chase number one on its list of companies “Changing the World” and chronicled by Harvard Business School as a case study for inclusive capitalism.Business Insider named Scher as one of 10 people “transforming how we think about capitalism” and Washington Life Magazine called him one of the most influential people in the U.S. Capitol. The Washington Business Journal recognized him as one of the top business executives in the Washington, D.C. region.Scher spent nearly a decade in public service. He was confirmed by the United States Senate as U.S. Special Trade Ambassador and served as one of the lead U.S. negotiators on China's entry into the World Trade Organization. He served as the Chief of Staff for the U.S. Trade Representative and the U.S. Department of Commerce, Staff Director for the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and Chief of Staff to former U.S. Senator Max Baucus.Scher is a founder and the Chairman of the Greater Washington Partnership and serves on the Board of Trustees of American University and a member of the Board of Directors of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., the Council on Foreign Relations and the Policy Advisory Board of the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware School of Public Policy.  Scher received his B.A. from American University and his J.D. from American's Washington College of Law.ELLIS CARRCarr has served as Capital Impact Partners' President and Chief Executive Officer since 2016. He became President and Chief Executive Officer of CDC Small Business Finance in 2021.Carr originally joined Capital Impact in 2012 as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Prior to joining Capital Impact, he held various positions in the investments, capital markets, strategy, and corporate finance areas within Freddie Mac, and in fixed-income fund management both domestically and abroad at Deutsche Bank.Carr is an Aspen Institute Finance Leader Fellow; serves on Morgan Stanley's Community Development Advisory Board; is the Board Chair for Martha's Table, Board Treasurer for HPN (the Housing Partnership Network), and a board member for the Marguerite Casey Foundation. In 2018, he was recognized on Washington Business Journal's list of “Top Minority Business Leaders,” as well as being named among their “Top 40 under 40” business executives in 2015. Carr graduated from Towson University with a bachelor's degree in Accounting, and from Georgetown University with a master's degree in Real Estate with a concentration in Finance.

From a very early age, Jim Messina knew he wanted to manage a presidential campaign. And he made it happen as the manager for the 2012 Obama re-elect. In between, Jim ran campaigns at all levels across the country, served as Chief of Staff on Capitol Hill, and served as a White House aide helping pass much of the first-term Obama agenda. In this conversation, Jim talks growing up in a blue collar Mountain West family, his early activism against nuclear weapons, how he connected with eventual mentor Senator Max Baucus, and the lessons learned on his path to managing the campaign to re-elect President Obama.IN THIS EPISODE…The story of Jim “managing” his first campaign in 4th Grade…The book a young Jim read that turned him onto politics for good…Jim helps save the political career of the mayor of his college town…The impact of the “no Nuke” movement on Jim…Jim talks his relationship with his mentor Senator Max Baucus…The similar approach in the Baucus '02 re-election and the Obama 2012 re-elect…Jim's involvement in stopping the Bush '05 Social Security Privatization plan…Jim talks why Republicans often have the strategic advantage on messaging…Jim's theory as to why Montana creates so many talented political operatives…Jim's best practices for working on Capitol Hill…The Republicans that have impressed Jim over the years…Jim waxes nostalgic about Prairie Populism…Jim talks about the greatest living Senate staffer…Why Jim almost passed on working for the Obama 2008 race…Voter file controversies in 2008…Jim tells great stories from helping put the Obama Cabinet together… Jim talks how President Obama wouldn't let the ACA fail…The “shrewdest political operator” Jim has ever seen…Jim's conversations with President Obama before taking the helm of the 2012 re-elect…What surprised Jim about running a presidential campaign…Jim talks inflection points in the 2012 presidential campaign…Why Jim was confident Biden wouldn't have major gaffes in 2020…Jim's approach to starting The Messina Group after 2012… AND…21 Rules, Yohannes Abraham, actual mullets, Al D'Amato, David Axelrod, Baucus Burger Bonanzas, the Beast, Steve Bullock, Andy Card, Jimmy Carter, Tara Corrigan, Jim Crounse, Tom Daschle, Byron Dorgan, John Elway, Rahm Emanuel, FABIO, Tim Geithner, Girl in Red, Newt Gingrich, half-gin/half-tonic, Dave Hunter, Jesse Jackson, Liz Jarvis-Shean, Peter King, Celinda Lake, Trent Lott, Mike Mansfield, Ty Matsdorf, Carolyn McCarthy, midnight calls from Bill Clinton, Olivia Morgan, Patty Murray, Jen O'Malley, Alyssa Mastromonaco, Nancy Pelosi. David Plouffe, Prairie Populists, Marc Racicot, Harry Reid, Mitt Romney, Pete Rouse, Eric Schmidt, Stephanie Schriock, Nate Silver, Julianna Smoot, Steven Spielberg, Gail Stoltz, Taylor Swift, Larry Summers, Jon Tester, Three Mile Island, walking across Montana, Pat Williams, Anna Wintour, and MORE!

In response to high morbidity and mortality rates caused by an environmental health disaster due to asbestos mining in Libby and northwest Montana, Sen. Max Baucus added a section, Amendment 1881 A to the Social Security Act as a provision to the Affordable Care Act as it was drafted in 2009-10. The intent was to enroll everyone in the affected areas of Libby, Montana and the northwest area of the state in the national Medicare program - without qualifications.The model of provision of Medicare for All to Libby, Montana provides a roadmap to the extension of healthcare to all who are subject to COVID-19 virus and other health threats.Support the show (https://www.denveropenmedia.org/podcast/library#truthseekers)

      I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones  -- Albert Einstein   If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve. If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced out on the ground. All we need do is to throw something odd and unaccountable in his way.  -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War     On the new InSecurity, Matt Stephenson has a chat with author and Corner Alliance CEO Alan Pentz about playing the long game with China. When your rival has 4000 years of history and a BILLION more people, the contest takes on some different parameters. As we move into the 4th Industrial Revolution, who will better leverage technology like 5G, AI, automation and augmented reality? We’re bringing someone who is boots on the ground in the campaign to improve how government can work with private industry.     About Alan Pentz     Alan Pentz (@apentz) is the CEO of Corner Alliance. He has over twenty years of experience in government consulting with Corner Alliance, SRA, Touchstone Consulting, and Witt O'Brien's, and has worked with government leaders in the R&D and innovation communities across DHS, Commerce, NIH, state and local government, and the non-profit sector among others. Before consulting, Alan served as a speechwriter and press secretary for former U.S. Senator Max Baucus and as a legislative assistant for former U.S. Representative Paul Kanjorski. He holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. Alan is a life long fan of the Philadelphia Eagles (yes, they booed Santa Claus) and his hero is Ben Franklin, a famous polymath, patriot, diplomat, scientist, politician, and was still the founding father you most want to have a beer with.     Winning the Long Competition: The Key to the Next American Century     For the first time since the Space Race, the United States is facing a serious competitor with a plan to achieve technological dominance: China. Between China 2025 and the Belt and Road Initiative, it’s become clear that the Chinese government is determined to capture the economic power that new technologies like AI, automation, 5G, and the cloud represent. And with economic power comes military power, and then political power. To win this competition, the US must return to the historical model it used to build the interstate highway system, put a man on the moon, and build the computer and the Internet—but has become an afterthought over the past few decades. In Winning the Long Competition, Alan Pentz lays out a roadmap for increasing our investment and innovation in core areas. He shows government managers where to invest and points innovators to areas where the funding will be plentiful. As we move into the next American century, the only way forward is to harness all the resources and creativity of both our public and private sectors.     About Matt Stephenson       Insecurity Podcast host Matt Stephenson (@packmatt73) leads the Broadcast Media team at BlackBerry, which puts me in front of crowds, cameras, and microphones all over the world. I am the regular host of the InSecurity podcast and video series at events around the globe.   I have spent the last 10 years in the world of Data Protection and Cybersecurity. Since 2016, I have been with Cylance (now BlackBerry) extolling the virtues of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and how, when applied to network security, can wrong-foot the bad guys. Prior to the COVID shutdown, I was on the road over 100 days a year doing live malware demonstrations for audiences from San Diego to DC to London to Abu Dhabi to Singapore to Sydney. One of the funniest things I've ever been a part of was blowing up a live instance of NotPetya 6 hours after the news broke... in Washington DC... directly across the street from FBI HQ... as soon as we activated it a parade of police cars with sirens blaring roared past the building we were in. I'm pretty they weren't there for us, but you never know...   Every week on the InSecurity Podcast, I get to interview interesting people doing interesting things all over the world of cybersecurity and the extended world of hacking. Sometimes, that means hacking elections or the coffee supply chain... other times that means social manipulation or the sovereign wealth fund of a national economy.   InSecurity is about talking with the people who build, manage or wreck the systems that we have put in place to make the world go round...   Can’t get enough of Insecurity? You can find us at Spotify, Apple Podcasts and ThreatVector as well as GooglePlay, Gaana, Himalaya, I Heart Radio and wherever you get your podcasts!   Make sure you Subscribe, Rate and Review!

- Bill DeBlasio is loved by all - The Georgia equation  - You are allowed to be sceptical  - Now they are coming for Trump's twitter - Biden is the new Trump  To support the show, please subscribe on Podbean, iTunes or Patreon Join the live audience on D-Live Follow on Twitter @BoogieBumper Join the Discord Grab Daily Boogie Merch Show links;  NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is a man of the people. Joe Biden Takes The Lead In Georgia Letter to Luzerne County Bureau of Elections One Michigan county clerk caught a glitch in tabulation software so they hand counted votes and found the glitch caused 6,000 votes to go to Biden The Trump Accountability Project "No elected Republican will stand behind Trump's statement": Santorum weighs in on Trump briefing Pelosi: Biden has 'tremendous mandate' to push Democratic agenda Trump's power on Twitter, Facebook will outlive his presidency Social media companies watching for election misinformation Politics is about identity, not policy America Under Biden Won't Go Soft on China Former U.S. senator Max Baucus on how Joe Biden would approach relations with China  

As COVID-19 destabilizes the U.S., Donald Trump and allies continue to attack China. Where will these attacks lead? And what can parties do - in both countries - to avoid a permanent rift? We were joined by Max Baucus, a former U.S. ambassador to China under the Obama administration, and Senator from Montana.

“It’s like a response to a lot of crises. That is, it’s big and it’s immediate, but it’s probably full of a lot of loopholes.” So says former Montana Senator Max Baucus, assessing the $2T economic relief package recently passed by U.S. Congress in response to the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. He adds, “We’re probably going to see a lot of inefficiencies, and a lot of people taking advantage of the situation, at the expense of Americans.” For close to 40 years, Max Baucus represented Montana in Congress, before serving as the U.S. Ambassador to China under President Barack Obama.  Baucus was Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee during the 2008 financial crisis, and was a key figure in the creation of legislative measures, signed by both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, that ultimately stabilized the U.S. economy in the aftermath of the subprime mortgage meltdown that crippled global markets. Senator Baucus then witnessed the populist aftermath of that legislation in the rise of the conservative Tea Party, and the birth of the liberal Occupy Wallstreet movement.  He was a chief architect of the Affordable Care Act, which enabled more than 20 million people to access health care, but came at a great political expense to Democrats who faced conservative backlash at the polls in many states.  Now out of politics and living back home in Montana, Baucus is watching a new world unfold as inefficiencies in the U.S. healthcare system are laid bare as the coronavirus pandemic takes its toll on American lives and the global economy.  In February, Baucus endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden’s bid for the Democratic nomination to the Presidency, and he now says he sees a need for bipartisan leadership in Washington, telling Montana Free Press editor-in-chief John S. Adams, “The recent partisanship in Washington has stymied any efficient action” on the pandemic and resultant economic turmoil.” And while some are questioning the White House’s response to the pandemic, Baucus levels a somewhat more measured criticism of the Trump administration: “I’m not blaming Donald Trump personally, but I do think, in our form of government, when there’s a crisis, it’s the Chief Executive that’s got to step up.” Baucus’s interview with Adams is featured in the latest episode of the Montana Lowdown podcast, a publication of Montana Free Press.

Bloomberg Economics Chief U.S. Economist Carl Riccadonna and Bloomberg Stocks Editor Dave Wilson break down the minutes of the July Federal Open Market Committee meeting as a number of Fed officials stressed the need for policy flexibility.  Bloomberg News Finance Reporter Sri Natarajan discusses Goldman Sachs’s trading division hiring more than 100 engineers for tech-related roles on the trading floor. Matt Winkler, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Bloomberg News, tells the story of two companies in Argentina that are showing investors and citizens that the country doesn’t have to be perpetually chaotic. Max Baucus, Former U.S. Ambassador to China, shares his thoughts on the unrest in Hong Kong, which he thinks is going to get worse before it gets better. And we Drive to the Close with Aaron Kennon, CEO at Clear Harbor Asset Management. Hosts: Jason Kelly and Marty Schenker. Producer: Paul Brennan. 

Bloomberg Economics Chief U.S. Economist Carl Riccadonna and Bloomberg Stocks Editor Dave Wilson break down the minutes of the July Federal Open Market Committee meeting as a number of Fed officials stressed the need for policy flexibility.  Bloomberg News Finance Reporter Sri Natarajan discusses Goldman Sachs's trading division hiring more than 100 engineers for tech-related roles on the trading floor. Matt Winkler, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Bloomberg News, tells the story of two companies in Argentina that are showing investors and citizens that the country doesn't have to be perpetually chaotic. Max Baucus, Former U.S. Ambassador to China, shares his thoughts on the unrest in Hong Kong, which he thinks is going to get worse before it gets better. And we Drive to the Close with Aaron Kennon, CEO at Clear Harbor Asset Management. Hosts: Jason Kelly and Marty Schenker. Producer: Paul Brennan.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Max Baucus, Former U.S. Ambassador to China, and Bloomberg News Trade Reporter Shawn Donnan break down the latest in U.S.-China trade negotiations, Baucus believes in an agreement will come within the week. Jenny Surane, Bloomberg News Finance Reporter, on Citi tying card rewards to checking accounts and other banking products. Tommaso Ebhardt, Bloomberg News Milan Bureau Chief, talks about his book profiling the legacy and final days of Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Bloomberg News Reporter Brandon Kochkodin explain that Blackrock’s secret to winning the exchange traded fund wars could end up a big loser. And we Drive to the Close with Kara Murphy, Chief Investment Officer at United Capital Financial Advisers.  Hosts: Carol Massar and Jason Kelly.  Producer: Paul Brennan 

The Max S. Baucus Institute at the University of Montana's Alexander Blewett III School of Law is a one of a kind public service institution offering a one of a kind student experience. In this episode Professor of Law and Institute Director Sam Panarella and Professor and Director UM's Masters in Public Administration program Sara Rinfret are joined by Montana's legendary Max Baucus, former US Senator and Ambassador to China. We discuss why the Baucus Institute is uniquely positioned to create transformative learning experiences focused on public service.

Max Baucus, Former U.S. Ambassador to China, and Bloomberg News Trade Reporter Shawn Donnan break down the latest in U.S.-China trade negotiations, Baucus believes in an agreement will come within the week. Jenny Surane, Bloomberg News Finance Reporter, on Citi tying card rewards to checking accounts and other banking products. Tommaso Ebhardt, Bloomberg News Milan Bureau Chief, talks about his book profiling the legacy and final days of Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Bloomberg News Reporter Brandon Kochkodin explain that Blackrock's secret to winning the exchange traded fund wars could end up a big loser. And we Drive to the Close with Kara Murphy, Chief Investment Officer at United Capital Financial Advisers.  Hosts: Carol Massar and Jason Kelly.  Producer: Paul Brennan  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Craig Gordon, Bloomberg News Washington Bureau Chief, discusses President Donald Trump announcing a deal to reopen the government for three weeks, ending a 35-day partial shutdown, but saying he won't allow the government to reopen without funding for a border wall. Jake Bright, TechCrunch Contributor, breaks down the VC tech scene in Africa.Lincoln Ellis, Senior Investment Strategist at Northern Trust, discusses managing market volatility. Max Baucus, Former U.S. Senator and U.S. Ambassador to China, shares his thoughts on the trade negotiations between the U.S. and China.   Hosts: Carol Massar and Jason Kelly. Producer: Paul Brennan  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Craig Gordon, Bloomberg News Washington Bureau Chief, discusses President Donald Trump announcing a deal to reopen the government for three weeks, ending a 35-day partial shutdown, but saying he won’t allow the government to reopen without funding for a border wall. Jake Bright, TechCrunch Contributor, breaks down the VC tech scene in Africa.Lincoln Ellis, Senior Investment Strategist at Northern Trust, discusses managing market volatility. Max Baucus, Former U.S. Senator and U.S. Ambassador to China, shares his thoughts on the trade negotiations between the U.S. and China.   Hosts: Carol Massar and Jason Kelly. Producer: Paul Brennan 

We lead today's podcast with a Bloomberg Businessweek scoop: China used a tiny chip to infiltrate almost 30 U.S. companies. Then we turn to Tobias Levkovich, Citigroup Global Markets Chief U.S. Equity Strategist, who notes 75% of S&P revenues are U.S. driven. Max Baucus, Former U.S. Ambassador to China & Former Senator from Montana, says countries will have to reach agreements on technology or this will be "the Wild West." Louise Yamada, Technical Research Advisors, says we're now in a new raising rate cycle. Jordan Robertson, Bloomberg News Global Technology Reporter, breaks down his reporting on China's microchips. And Adam Segal, Council on Foreign Relations Digital & Cyberspace Policy Program Director, says this story will shape upcoming security discussions.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

We lead today's podcast with a Bloomberg Businessweek scoop: China used a tiny chip to infiltrate almost 30 U.S. companies. Then we turn to Tobias Levkovich, Citigroup Global Markets Chief U.S. Equity Strategist, who notes 75% of S&P revenues are U.S. driven. Max Baucus, Former U.S. Ambassador to China & Former Senator from Montana, says countries will have to reach agreements on technology or this will be "the Wild West." Louise Yamada, Technical Research Advisors, says we're now in a new raising rate cycle. Jordan Robertson, Bloomberg News Global Technology Reporter, breaks down his reporting on China's microchips. And Adam Segal, Council on Foreign Relations Digital & Cyberspace Policy Program Director, says this story will shape upcoming security discussions. 

Ray Rogers is the Chief Executive Officer for the National Center for Health Care Informatics (NCHCI) and The Praxis Center for Innovative Learning located in Butte, Montana. Ray serves as the CEO for the NCHCI, a non-profit corporation dedicated to improving the management of health care data, information, and knowledge. His company is leading an effort to develop the Praxis Center for Innovative Learning - a $35 million, 70,000+ square foot rural healthcare simulation training center. This will be the nation's first independent, non-profit, non-affiliated medical simulation training center dedicated specifically to the needs of rural healthcare practitioners. “Mastery is achieved through practice.” Ray has extensive experience developing simulation training for the USAF Special Operations Forces (Pararescuemen). He has hosted regional conferences and has spoken to audiences nationally on the topics of electronic medical records, personal health records, and health information exchange. He has also worked with Hewlett Packard and CrossFlo System on a syndromic surveillance Health Information Exchange (HIE) demonstration project, and served as a lead planner for the past three Montana Economic Development Summits hosted by Senator Max Baucus.  Ray has over 15 years’ experience in higher education administration, fundraising, marketing, and business development, 13 years’ experience working in the field of health care informatics, and 5 years as a marketing engineer for a full-service environmental consulting company. In 2001, Ray led an effort on behalf of the Montana University System to create the nation’s first undergraduate degree in Health Care Informatics. He is a part-time faculty member at Montana Tech. Ray holds an undergraduate degree in Engineering and a MS degree in Technical Communications. Ray has three grown children and enjoys skiing, running, hiking and fly-fishing. You can reach Ray by email at rrogers@mtech.edu.

Carol is joined by Bloomberg Senior Editor Bob Ivry and they speak to Erik Larson, Bloomberg News Legal Reporter, and Brad Adgate, Independent Media Analyst, to preview the ruling on the AT&T-Time/Warner merger. Carolyn Vardi, Private Equity/M&A Partner at White and Case, discusses whether economic pressures will open private equity to more women. Dana Hull, Bloomberg News Technology Reporter, explains why Tesla is cutting 9% of its workforce. Max Baucus, Former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to China, shares his thoughts on the Trump-Kim summit. And we Drive to the Close Doug Ciocca, Chief Executive Officer at Kavar Capital.

Carol is joined by Bloomberg Senior Editor Bob Ivry and they speak to Erik Larson, Bloomberg News Legal Reporter, and Brad Adgate, Independent Media Analyst, to preview the ruling on the AT&T-Time/Warner merger. Carolyn Vardi, Private Equity/M&A Partner at White and Case, discusses whether economic pressures will open private equity to more women. Dana Hull, Bloomberg News Technology Reporter, explains why Tesla is cutting 9% of its workforce. Max Baucus, Former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to China, shares his thoughts on the Trump-Kim summit. And we Drive to the Close Doug Ciocca, Chief Executive Officer at Kavar Capital. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Max Baucus, Former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to China, discusses the looming trade war between the U.S and China.  Sonali Basak, Bloomberg News Investment Banking Reporter, breaks down JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s annual letter to shareholders. Steve Kroll, Managing Director at Monness Crespi Hardt shares investment ideas from the latest "Titans Dinner.” Bloomberg Technology Host Emily Chang speaks to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.  

Max Baucus, Former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to China, discusses the looming trade war between the U.S and China.  Sonali Basak, Bloomberg News Investment Banking Reporter, breaks down JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon's annual letter to shareholders. Steve Kroll, Managing Director at Monness Crespi Hardt shares investment ideas from the latest "Titans Dinner.” Bloomberg Technology Host Emily Chang speaks to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.   Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Max Baucus, Former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to China, discusses President Trump firing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Tom Essaye, Founder of the Sevens Report, talks about CPI data and the outlook for inflation and the economy. Luis Maizel, Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director at LM Capital Group, explains the implications Trump’s trade tariffs could have on emerging economies. Matt Larson, Bloomberg Intelligence Litigation Analyst, and Ian King, Bloomberg News U.S. Semiconductor Reporter, breakdown what’s next now that Trump has blocked Broadcom's takeover of Qualcomm. We Drive to the Close with Jack Ablin, Chief Investment Officer at Cresset Wealth Advisors.   

Max Baucus, Former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to China, discusses President Trump firing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Tom Essaye, Founder of the Sevens Report, talks about CPI data and the outlook for inflation and the economy. Luis Maizel, Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director at LM Capital Group, explains the implications Trump's trade tariffs could have on emerging economies. Matt Larson, Bloomberg Intelligence Litigation Analyst, and Ian King, Bloomberg News U.S. Semiconductor Reporter, breakdown what's next now that Trump has blocked Broadcom's takeover of Qualcomm. We Drive to the Close with Jack Ablin, Chief Investment Officer at Cresset Wealth Advisors.    Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Kat Chiglinsky, Bloomberg News Finance Reporter, discusses Warren Buffett's investment ideas from his annual letter to Berkshire shareholders. Abhay Deshpande, CIO at Centerstone, explains how to find value in a highly priced market. Stephen Jones, CEO of Covanta, explains how government policies are impacting the waste management business. Max Baucus, Former U.S. Ambassador to China, discuss the possible elimination of Chinese presidential term limits and what that could mean for the rule of Xi Jinping. Carol and Cory hit today’s “Movers and Shakers” and Bloomberg Stocks Editor Dave Wilson has his “Stock of the Day.” 

Kat Chiglinsky, Bloomberg News Finance Reporter, discusses Warren Buffett's investment ideas from his annual letter to Berkshire shareholders. Abhay Deshpande, CIO at Centerstone, explains how to find value in a highly priced market. Stephen Jones, CEO of Covanta, explains how government policies are impacting the waste management business. Max Baucus, Former U.S. Ambassador to China, discuss the possible elimination of Chinese presidential term limits and what that could mean for the rule of Xi Jinping. Carol and Cory hit today's “Movers and Shakers” and Bloomberg Stocks Editor Dave Wilson has his “Stock of the Day.”  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Max Baucus, Former U.S. Senator, discusses former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleading guilty to lying to federal agents. U.S. Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX), talks about his efforts to provide cybersecurity for voting machines. John Moninger, Managing Director at Eaton Vance, on seeing volatility concerns from ATOMIX survey. We Drive to the Close with Eric Freedman, Chief Investment Officer at U.S. Bank Wealth Management. And Carol and Cory hit today’s Movers and Shakers on Wall Street and Bloomberg Stocks Editor Dave Wilson has his “Stock of the Day.”   

Max Baucus, Former U.S. Senator, discusses former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleading guilty to lying to federal agents. U.S. Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX), talks about his efforts to provide cybersecurity for voting machines. John Moninger, Managing Director at Eaton Vance, on seeing volatility concerns from ATOMIX survey. We Drive to the Close with Eric Freedman, Chief Investment Officer at U.S. Bank Wealth Management. And Carol and Cory hit today's Movers and Shakers on Wall Street and Bloomberg Stocks Editor Dave Wilson has his “Stock of the Day.”    Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

The Buzz: “Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax” (Max Baucus). The confluence of global trade, new technologies and governments' increasing need for tax revenue is impacting the global commerce landscape, challenging you and your competitors. To stay afloat, you need to understand, prepare for and stay on top of changing tax and regulatory compliance rules, as well as new technologies and platforms – including blockchain, machine learning, and big data. Got your lifejacket ready? The experts speak. John Viglione, Vertex: Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose” (Bill Gates). Robert Kugel, Ventana: “The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing” (Jean-Baptiste Colbert). Camilla Dahlen, SAP: “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities” (Stephen Covey). Join us for Global Commerce, Tax and Technology: Navigating Rough Waters Ahead.

The Buzz: “Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax” (Max Baucus). The confluence of global trade, new technologies and governments' increasing need for tax revenue is impacting the global commerce landscape, challenging you and your competitors. To stay afloat, you need to understand, prepare for and stay on top of changing tax and regulatory compliance rules, as well as new technologies and platforms – including blockchain, machine learning, and big data. Got your lifejacket ready? The experts speak. John Viglione, Vertex: Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose” (Bill Gates). Robert Kugel, Ventana: “The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing” (Jean-Baptiste Colbert). Camilla Dahlen, SAP: “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities” (Stephen Covey). Join us for Global Commerce, Tax and Technology: Navigating Rough Waters Ahead.

Bill Gross, a fund manager at Janus Henderson, says the bond market isn't in a rout yet and to expect one more Fed rate increase this year, likely in December. Prior to that, Alan Krueger, a professor at Princeton University, says the U.S. is heading toward a labor shortage economy. James Glassman, a senior economist at JPMorgan, says the jobs data for June show people are recognizing the economy's in a better position today. Finally, Max Baucus, the former U.S. ambassador to China, says foreign leaders don't know what to expect from President Trump's inconsistency. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Bill Gross, a fund manager at Janus Henderson, says the bond market isn't in a rout yet and to expect one more Fed rate increase this year, likely in December. Prior to that, Alan Krueger, a professor at Princeton University, says the U.S. is heading toward a labor shortage economy. James Glassman, a senior economist at JPMorgan, says the jobs data for June show people are recognizing the economy's in a better position today. Finally, Max Baucus, the former U.S. ambassador to China, says foreign leaders don't know what to expect from President Trump's inconsistency.

Evercore ISI Chairman Ed Hyman explains why he's so optimistic about the U.S. jobless rate. Mark Haefele, UBS Wealth Management's global chief investment officer, says emerging markets mirror improving U.S. markets. Craig Moffett, MoffettNathanson's senior research analyst, says cable TV isn't done yet. Finally, Max Baucus, a former Senator from Montana, and Michael Cannon, CATO Institute's director of health policy studies, react to the Senate's proposed health-care bill. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Evercore ISI Chairman Ed Hyman explains why he's so optimistic about the U.S. jobless rate. Mark Haefele, UBS Wealth Management's global chief investment officer, says emerging markets mirror improving U.S. markets. Craig Moffett, MoffettNathanson's senior research analyst, says cable TV isn't done yet. Finally, Max Baucus, a former Senator from Montana, and Michael Cannon, CATO Institute's director of health policy studies, react to the Senate's proposed health-care bill.

David Rank became the leading diplomat for one of America’s most important embassies during the transition when Iowa governor Terry Branstad formally succeeded former Montana senator Max Baucus as U.S. ambassador to China on May 24, 2017. He soon found himself in a moral quandary: Carry out what he believed to be a deeply misguided order from the president of the United States to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, or resign in protest. He chose the latter, becoming the highest-ranking State Department official to do so — thus far — under the Trump administration. Kaiser met with Dave in his home in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., to better understand his reaction to Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Dave also discussed the current state of U.S.-China diplomacy, and looked ahead at how the two countries might work together in the future. Recommendations: Dave: The Maine Woods, by Henry David Thoreau, gives an inside look at both the author’s famed advocacy of rugged individualism and the remarkable transformation of 19th-century America due to the Protestant work ethic and the new industrial economy. Kaiser: Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve, by Lenora Chu, is set for release in September, but you can pre-order this well-written exploration of China’s educational system now.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says President Trump has told him that he is strongly committed to NATO. Prior to that, Robert Hormats, Kissinger Associates' vice chairman, says Merkel is the leader of the G-7 now. Luigi Zingales, a professor at University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, says Republicans have been missing in action in keeping Trump in check. Finally, Max Baucus, a former senator and U.S. Ambassador to China, says the rule of law is beginning to take over with the appointment of a special counsel for the Russia investigation. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says President Trump has told him that he is strongly committed to NATO. Prior to that, Robert Hormats, Kissinger Associates' vice chairman, says Merkel is the leader of the G-7 now. Luigi Zingales, a professor at University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, says Republicans have been missing in action in keeping Trump in check. Finally, Max Baucus, a former senator and U.S. Ambassador to China, says the rule of law is beginning to take over with the appointment of a special counsel for the Russia investigation.

Ed Hyman, chairman of Evercore ISI, says the U.S. economy will expand by 2.5 percent this year and we'll know the economy is at full employment once wages start to rise. Libby Cantrill, PIMCO's head of public policy, says tax policy is the No. 1 question from clients. Martin Hegarty, the head of BlackRock's inflation-linked bond portfolios, says core inflation is on a path to 2.7 percent at the end of 2018. Finally, Max Baucus, the former U.S. Ambassador to China and former senator from Montana, says we have to work together to make sure the tax code is efficient and that people get adequate healthcare. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Ed Hyman, chairman of Evercore ISI, says the U.S. economy will expand by 2.5 percent this year and we'll know the economy is at full employment once wages start to rise. Libby Cantrill, PIMCO's head of public policy, says tax policy is the No. 1 question from clients. Martin Hegarty, the head of BlackRock's inflation-linked bond portfolios, says core inflation is on a path to 2.7 percent at the end of 2018. Finally, Max Baucus, the former U.S. Ambassador to China and former senator from Montana, says we have to work together to make sure the tax code is efficient and that people get adequate healthcare.

In this week's Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael J. Novogradac, CPA, discusses the latest about the debt limit and the confirmation of Sen. Max Baucus as the next U.S. ambassador to China and what it might mean for tax reform. In new markets tax credit news, he shares news about legislation that would permanently extend the New Markets Tax Credit program, a report on the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund's release of comments on its Community Investment Impact System and compliance reporting, and February's Qualified Equity Investment Issuance Report. In our low-income housing tax credit news, he covers the passage of the Agriculture Act of 2014 and an additional co-sponsor of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Rate Act. In renewable energy tax credit news, he shares the results of a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration about potential double dipping in the Section 1603 grant program and a report from the American Wind Energy Association about activity in the wind industry in the last quarter of 2013. On our historic tax credit news, has two state-level updates: one from Indiana and one from Kentucky.

In this week's Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael J. Novogradac, CPA, discusses the latest about the debt limit and the confirmation of Sen. Max Baucus as the next U.S. ambassador to China and what it might mean for tax reform. In new markets tax credit news, he shares news about legislation that would permanently extend the New Markets Tax Credit program, a report on the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund's release of comments on its Community Investment Impact System and compliance reporting, and February's Qualified Equity Investment Issuance Report. In our low-income housing tax credit news, he covers the passage of the Agriculture Act of 2014 and an additional co-sponsor of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Rate Act. In renewable energy tax credit news, he shares the results of a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration about potential double dipping in the Section 1603 grant program and a report from the American Wind Energy Association about activity in the wind industry in the last quarter of 2013. On our historic tax credit news, has two state-level updates: one from Indiana and one from Kentucky.

In this week's Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael J. Novogradac, CPA, discusses the federal fiscal year 2014 budget, tax extenders and a request from nearly 30 congressional representatives to hold hearings on poverty in America. In low-income housing tax credit news, he alerts listeners to the release of Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-01, which contains the new guidelines for accounting for low-income housing tax credit investments, and discusses a letter to Sen. Max Baucus from the LIHTC Working Group that addresses his proposed tax reform measures. In historic tax credit news, he shares information about a new Section 106 toolkit from the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and recaps a Cincinnati event that highlighted the use of Ohio's state historic tax credits. In renewable energy tax credit news, he has an update on Oregon's Business Energy Tax Credit program. In new markets tax credit news, he shares a request from the CDFI Fund for comments about the New Markets Tax Credit program application and information about two new state-level new markets tax credit program bills introduced in Indiana.

In this week's Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael J. Novogradac, CPA, discusses the federal fiscal year 2014 budget, tax extenders and a request from nearly 30 congressional representatives to hold hearings on poverty in America. In low-income housing tax credit news, he alerts listeners to the release of Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-01, which contains the new guidelines for accounting for low-income housing tax credit investments, and discusses a letter to Sen. Max Baucus from the LIHTC Working Group that addresses his proposed tax reform measures. In historic tax credit news, he shares information about a new Section 106 toolkit from the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and recaps a Cincinnati event that highlighted the use of Ohio's state historic tax credits. In renewable energy tax credit news, he has an update on Oregon's Business Energy Tax Credit program. In new markets tax credit news, he shares a request from the CDFI Fund for comments about the New Markets Tax Credit program application and information about two new state-level new markets tax credit program bills introduced in Indiana.

This week, a bill was introduced in both the House and the Senate that would hand Congress' power to negotiate trade deals, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, over to the President. We also look at the budget agreement to get an idea of what Congress is putting into their last-minute must-sign-by-next-week budget. Finally, thoughts on the golf swing. Information Presented in This Episode Fast Track for Trade Agreements On Thursday, January 9, Max Baucus, retiring Democrat in the Senate, and Orrin Hatch and Dave Camp, two shameless Republicans in the House, introduced a bill that would hand their power to negotiate and enter into trade agreements to the President. This bill would provide the President with so-called "fast track" authority to enter into both the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and a trade deal with the European Union. Fast track authority makes it much, much easier for these controversial deals to become law. Text of the "Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities Act of 2014" CD052: Episode detailing what we know about the secretive TPP CD053: Episode detailing the leaked Intellectual Property chapter of the TPP The bill starts off with Section 2, which lists a whole bunch of wonderful sounding goals - "objectives"- for the United States' trade agreements with other nations. Some of these lofty goals include opening up new markets, protecting the environment, protecting United States' family farms, encouraging foreign investment in the United States, protection of intellectual property rights, transparency, fair labor practices, and anti-corruption. Too bad none of these things are actually enforceable. The reason these goals are unenforceable is that regardless of whether any of these "objectives" are actually met by the trade agreement, page 35 authorizes the President of the United States, and only the President of the United States, to enter into trade agreements with foreign countries on or before July 1, 2018. There's some wiggle room with that date. The expiration date will be automatically extended until July 1, 2021 if the President asks for the extension as long as "neither House of Congress adopts an extension disapproval resolution" before July 1, 2018. If Congress does nothing; the extension is automatically approved. And doing nothing is one area where Congress performs extremely well. In order to enter into a trade agreement, the President merely has to inform Congress of his intentions to do so. He also has to let them pretend to have a say in "consultation" meetings, but there are no consequences if the majority of Congressional representatives disagree with the substance of the trade agreement, even if they can prove that the trade agreement does not meet the "objectives" listed in the beginning of the bill. In fact, Congress might not know the substance of the trade agreement because page 83 doesn't require the President to submit the final text to Congress until after he has entered into the agreement. From there, Congress will only be permitted to vote on whether or not to implement the President's trade agreement; no amendments to the agreement will be allowed. Congress did insert some language into the bill that is supposed to make us feel better about all this. First, page 87 says that Congress must be given the text of the trade agreement before the "implementing bill" comes up for a vote. What it doesn't say is how much time they'll get to read it. In theory, the President could give them the text of the trade agreement an hour before the vote and he will have fulfilled his obligations. Section 8 is the only source of real hope in the bill. It essentially says that trade agreement provisions that are different from or that change United States laws are not enforceable. It also says that any findings or recommendations of "dispute settlement panels" will have "no binding effect" on the law of the United States. Canada is being sued for $250 million in lost profits for their fracking ban thanks to NAFTA. The Budget Agreement On December 12th, 2013, the House of Representatives passed the budget agreement that was crafted by Democratic Senator Patty Murray and Republican Representative Paul Ryan. The budget agreement is the general rules they will follow while crafting the omnibus budget for 2014 and 2015. The omnibus budget is all twelve appropriations bills wrapped up into one monster bill, with all kinds of non-related gifts to campaign contributors attached to the must-sign legislation. The text of the omnibus legislation isn't finished yet. It must be signed into law next week to avoid another government shut down. One creepy provision (Section 203) in the budget agreement will restrict our access to the Death Master File for three years. The Death Master File lists the name, social security number, birthday, and date of death of everyone who dies in the United States. Currently the list is updated weekly and available both for a fee and for free on various websites. The budget agreement will prevent us from getting this information for three years after a person dies. Fees are steep for those who release this currently-public information; you will be charged $1,000 for each disclosure, capped at $250,000 a year if the disclosure is accidental. If the disclosure is on purpose, there is no cap. The provision also exempts the Death Master File from the Freedom of Information Act, effective immediately. Another infuriating provision (Section 303) approves the United States-Mexico agreement to open up oil and gas exploration in the center of the Gulf of Mexico, an area known as the Western Gap. As outlined in detail in Episode CD033, the majority of companies that have already claimed leases on the American side are not American companies, yet we are risking our coastlines for them anyway. A bill to approve this deal passed the House of Representatives earlier this year but the Senate did not approve it, so friends of the oil industry slipped it into the budget agreement. Hardly anyone has noticed. Some other provisions: Section 501: Lowers fee rates on student loan defaults to 16% from 18.5% Section 601: Changes TSA fees from $2.50 per plane, one-way, capped at $5 to a flat $5.60 each way, regardless of number of planes boarded. Section 702: Changes the compensation formula for Federal contractors and lowers the cap to $487,000/yr. For the rest of the provisions, we will have to wait for the text of the actual budget  to see the details. It will likely already be law by the time we get a chance to read it. Music In This Episode Intro and Exit Music: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio) Fast Lane by All Crazy (found on Music Alley by mevio)

In this week's Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael J. Novogradac, CPA, discusses the fiscal year 2014 budget, a potential change in Senate Finance Committee leadership and a new report about the success of community development financing tools. In historic tax credit news, he discusses long-awaited safe harbor guidance from the Internal Revenue Service, as well as a prototype programmatic agreement from the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, Rhode Island's newest historic tax credit awardees and the Rural Heritage Conservation Act of 2013.In new markets tax credit news, he has information from the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund's latest Qualified Equity Investment Issuance Report, a study about how new markets tax credits could be used to help end obesity and a bill that would qualify more census tracts for new markets tax credits. In low-income housing tax credit news, he shares information about income-qualified households from Low-Income Housing Credit Newsletter #54 and a report from the Corporation for Supportive Housing about allocation policies that promote supportive housing production. In renewable energy tax credit news, he discusses a proposal from Sen. Max Baucus that would consolidate all existing renewable energy tax credits into two tax credits.

Guests this hour include - Tony Perry (L.A. Times/S.D. Bureau Chief), Bruce Bailey (M.S.M.A), and Fred Naserri (Unicorn Jewelry) -Obama announces his nomination of good ol' pal Max Baucus to China Ambassador! -Tony Perry UPDATES Mark Larson on the San Diego Mayors race, how close is the race really? And will the city baseball box seats come into play? -Mark remembers Chuck Swimmer. -Bruce Bailey UPDATE on the saving of the Mount Soledad cross. -And Mark shares his FAKE/or rather PERMANENT Christmas tree adventures. -LIVE, LOCAL, and MOLD FREE - It's The Mark Larson Show!

In this week's Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael J. Novogradac, CPA, discusses Sen. Max Baucus's tax reform discussion drafts, including cost recovery periods and how they could affect the low-income housing tax credit, and JCX-17-13. In new markets tax credit news, I have a study from the Urban Institute on the effectiveness of the first four years of the New Markets Tax Credit program and the Nevada New Markets Tax Credit program. In historic tax credit news, he reports on efforts to expand the Indiana historic tax credit program. In low-income housing tax credit news, he discusses a National Low Income Housing Coalition report on homelessness among veterans and a comment letter that the LIHTC Working Group sent to the Internal Revenue Service about establishing utility allowances. In renewable energy tax credit news, he reports on the Bipartisan Policy Center's call to phase-out the production tax credit

In this week's Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael J. Novogradac, CPA, discusses lawmakers' responses to Sens. Max Baucus and Orrin Hatch's request for tax reform proposals, a Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration audit of the potential for improper or fraudulent bond tax credit claims and upcoming legislative deadlines. In low-income housing tax credit news, he alerts listeners to legislation introduced to make permanent a fixed floor for the 9 percent and 4 percent tax credits and to increase LIHTC allocations to tribal areas, as well as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's release of its proposed fiscal year 2014 fair market rents. In historic tax credit news, he reveals the results of the National Park Service and Rutgers University's 2012 report on the use of HTCs and Vermont's award of its 2014 Downtown Historic Tax Credits. In new markets tax credit news, he encourages listeners to sign on to the New Markets Tax Credit Coalition's advocacy letter to support the NMTC program, to participate in a user survey on the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund website and to submit the paperwork necessary to participate in the 2013 and 2014 allocation rounds. In renewable energy tax credit news, he shares the Interstate Renewable Energy Council's sixth annual report on solar installation trends.

In this week's Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael J. Novogradac, CPA, discusses lawmakers' responses to Sens. Max Baucus and Orrin Hatch's request for tax reform proposals, a Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration audit of the potential for improper or fraudulent bond tax credit claims and upcoming legislative deadlines. In low-income housing tax credit news, he alerts listeners to legislation introduced to make permanent a fixed floor for the 9 percent and 4 percent tax credits and to increase LIHTC allocations to tribal areas, as well as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's release of its proposed fiscal year 2014 fair market rents. In historic tax credit news, he reveals the results of the National Park Service and Rutgers University's 2012 report on the use of HTCs and Vermont's award of its 2014 Downtown Historic Tax Credits. In new markets tax credit news, he encourages listeners to sign on to the New Markets Tax Credit Coalition's advocacy letter to support the NMTC program, to participate in a user survey on the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund website and to submit the paperwork necessary to participate in the 2013 and 2014 allocation rounds. In renewable energy tax credit news, he shares the Interstate Renewable Energy Council's sixth annual report on solar installation trends.

The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, takes effect next year.  Max Baucus reffered to it as a train wreck, but what do doctors think?  Our guest tonight is a doctor who will tell you exactly what he thinks.  Do you agree or disagree? Call the show live and tell us what you think.  310-807-5158 or 877-878-1431

The Liberal Fix team interviews the chair of the politics department at Occidental College, Caroline Heldman.  She co-edited the popular book, Rethinking Madame President: Is the US Ready for a Woman in the White House? and maintains a blog titled Political Musings from a "Totalitarian Liberal". In news related to the prior week they will discuss"ricin letter suspect" Paul Keving Curtis' release from jail, Max Baucus to retire and the Koch Brothers seek to buy major newspapers. A recap of the week in Progressive or Liberal Politics. News, Commentary and Analysis. Hosted by Indiana writer Dan Bimrose and co-hosted by Iowa activist Crystal Kayser and sociologist Keith Brekhus from Montana, every week the three of them feature a special guest and tackle those tough issues with a perspective that comes from outside the beltway. If you are interested in being a guest and for any other inquiries or comments concerning the show please contact our producer Naomi De Luna Minogue via email: naomi@liberalfixradio.com. Join the Liberal Fix community, a like-minded group of individuals dedicated to promoting progressive ideals and progressive activists making a difference.  

Ron Siegel discusses: New Jobless Claims     Senator Max Baucus' comments about Obamacare beign a Train Wreck     Gun Amendment and Politicians being controlled by Special Interests on most matters     How different Generatioons See the Value of Home Ownership     Why Housing Affordability is at Risk     How to Work through $150,000 in Student Loan Debt     Differing Car Loan Rates for the Same Car? Ron Siegel, consumer advocate and mortgage lender, discusses anything that affects the roof over your head, your bank account or other items that will benefit you / your family. Reach Ron at  800.306.1990 Ron@RonSiegelRadio.comwww.RonSiegelRadio.comwww.Facebook.com/RonSiegelRadiowww.SiegelLendingTeam.com Twitter: @RonSiegel

In this week's Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael J. Novogradac, CPA, opens with an Office of Management and Budget sequestration memo, post-fiscal cliff financial analysis and tax loopholes that could be closed. In historic tax credit news, he discusses Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar's request that the National Park Service review the HTC program rules and Rhode Island's historic tax credit program. In low-income housing tax credit news, he discusses a meeting between Sen. Max Baucus and the Housing Advisory Group. In new markets tax credit news, he discusses an interim rule for the CDFI Fund Bond Guarantee programs and a report on CDFIs' response to Superstorm Sandy. In renewable energy tax credit news, he alerts listeners to a call for guidance on the production tax credit eligibility and an American Wind Energy Association report on electric generating capacity.

In this week's Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael J. Novogradac, CPA, opens with an Office of Management and Budget sequestration memo, post-fiscal cliff financial analysis and tax loopholes that could be closed. In historic tax credit news, he discusses Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar's request that the National Park Service review the HTC program rules and Rhode Island's historic tax credit program. In low-income housing tax credit news, he discusses a meeting between Sen. Max Baucus and the Housing Advisory Group. In new markets tax credit news, he discusses an interim rule for the CDFI Fund Bond Guarantee programs and a report on CDFIs' response to Superstorm Sandy. In renewable energy tax credit news, he alerts listeners to a call for guidance on the production tax credit eligibility and an American Wind Energy Association report on electric generating capacity.

Michael J. Novogradac, CPA, relays Senator Max Baucus's tax reform proposal and Representative Pat Tiberi's tax extenders hearing. In the new markets tax credit section, he discusses the NMTC Coalition's 2012 progress report and the CDFI Fund's monthly Qualified Equity Investment Issuance Report update. Additionally, he alerts listeners to the Novogradac & Company's new qualified low-income community investment summaries. In the low-income housing tax credit section, he discusses the annual report from the Advisory Committee on TaxExempt and Government Entities, two memos from the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee and North Dakota's Housing Incentive Fund. Mr. Novogradac then discusses historic tax credit news, including Representative Earl Blumenauer's call for the modernization of the historic tax credit, a report from the National Governors Association and the Massachusetts Tax Credit Transparency Report. Finally, he wraps up with a bill introduced that would enable renewable energy investors to form master limited partnerships, the Sierra Club's "Wind Works" campaign and an upcoming Senate Finance Committee hearing.

Michael J. Novogradac, CPA, relays Senator Max Baucus's tax reform proposal and Representative Pat Tiberi's tax extenders hearing. In the new markets tax credit section, he discusses the NMTC Coalition's 2012 progress report and the CDFI Fund's monthly Qualified Equity Investment Issuance Report update. Additionally, he alerts listeners to the Novogradac & Company's new qualified low-income community investment summaries. In the low-income housing tax credit section, he discusses the annual report from the Advisory Committee on TaxExempt and Government Entities, two memos from the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee and North Dakota's Housing Incentive Fund. Mr. Novogradac then discusses historic tax credit news, including Representative Earl Blumenauer's call for the modernization of the historic tax credit, a report from the National Governors Association and the Massachusetts Tax Credit Transparency Report. Finally, he wraps up with a bill introduced that would enable renewable energy investors to form master limited partnerships, the Sierra Club's “Wind Works” campaign and an upcoming Senate Finance Committee hearing.

Edition #309 Derailing unprecedented health reform would be unprecedented Act 1: Kid is denied healthcare for being too skinny - The Young Turks Act 2: Max Baucus and Senate health reform - Bill Moyers Journal Act 3: Medicare Part E - Thom Hartmann Act 4: Healthcare, now what - This American Life Act 5: Dems stopping healthcare would be unprecedented - Rachel Maddow Act 6: The history of our healthcare system - This American Life Act 7: Insurance company calls sick people dogs - The Young Turks Act 8: Further reporting on anti-healthcare campaign - Rachel Maddow Music: Curl up and die - Relient K Who will buy - Oliver Soundtrack Fake Empire - The National Doctor my eyes - Jackson 5 I go to extremes - Billy Joel Remember Jonathan - Cyrille Verdeaux Stop crying your heart out - Oasis Produced by: Jay! Thanks for listening! Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeft.com Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Vote for us and leave comments at www.PodcastAlley.com or Review the show on iTunes.

Plus listener poems on moon water, Max Baucus, and the (final) end of Saturn. It's In The Loop for October 2, 2010. (And yes, we know Chicago lost at the very instant this podcast dropped. Grrr.)

Adam Green of the PCCC (boldprogressives.org) and Bing Perrine, the subject of a new ad targeting Max Baucus, speak with Nicole Sandler

It's been a year now since Lehman Brothers was allowed to go bankrupt, and the financial meltdown really got under way. Since Barack Obama took over, has there been more continuity than change? Could it happen all over again? Also, Senator Max Baucus releases his long-awaited healthcare bill, and mysterious "double eagles" have turned up again.