Podcast appearances and mentions of peggy collins

On Monday at the US Capitol, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th American President. He then took to the podium to make his inaugural address and, shortly after, gave a rally-style speech for his supporters. Today on the show, Washington, DC bureau chief Peggy Collins joins host Sarah Holder to discuss what Trump’s first remarks say about his priorities for the next four years. Read more: Trump Inaugural Speech Vows ‘Golden Age’ to Reverse US DeclineSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Spring is a busy season for memory keepers, as the world beckons us towards outside hobbies, experiences, and celebrations. In this episode I'm chatting with Simple Scrapper team members Peggy Collins and Amy Zwart about our current interests and how we're showing up for creative experiences. We highlight suggestions for staying connected when life is busy, including how we use accountability in the Simple Scrapper community to support ourselves as well as our members.Visit simplescrapper.com/syw262 for all the links mentioned in the episode.✨ Get free access to the SPARKED workshop and start scrapbooking consistently at simplescrapper.com/sparked.

In this episode I'm joined by Peggy Collins and Amy Zwart, two members of our Simple Scrapper leadership team. We reflect a bit on 2023, but focus on how we're planning for 2024 both personally and for our creative community. This extended conversation features a range of scrapbooking favorites and our best advice for the New Year.Visit simplescrapper.com/syw246 for all the links mentioned in the episode.✨ Get free access to the SPARKED workshop and start scrapbooking consistently at simplescrapper.com/sparked.

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen discusses the state of the US economy, additional sanctions on Hamas, and China's relationship with the US. She speaks to Bloomberg's Peggy Collins in Washington DC.      Full Transcript:     US Treasury Secretary Jenny Allen. She joins Bloomberg News in Washington, d C. For a conversation around the economy, moderated by our Washington Bureau Chief Peggy Collins. I think we'll start off with the economic data that came out this morning, third quarter GDP showing a robust four point nine percent growth rate a pace in the third quarter. When you look at those figures, do you think we've likely avoided a recession or do you think it's too good to be true because inflation is still so high. Well, it's a good, strong number, and it shows an economy that's doing very well. Let's remember it is just one quarter's number, and I'm not expecting a growth at that pace to continue. But we do have good, solid growth. You know, probably the year will come in close to two and a half. I wouldn't be surprised if we see that we have solid job creation, a low unemployment rate, increased engagement in the labor force. Labor force participation is strong, more people want to work, and inflation's coming down, and you don't really see any sign of recession here. I have to say I've been saying for a long time that I believed there was a path to bring inflation down in the context of a strong labor market. Frankly, it's only it's about a year ago since I believe a Bloomberg model predicted that by October of twenty twenty three. Now, namely that you saw at the odds of recession at one hundred percent, I don't think we have that. You know, what we have looks like is soft landing with very good outcomes through the US economy. So I think there's a lot to be pleased about. And you see good strong consumers spending, consumers still have substantial wealth, it's substantially since the pandemic. I think it's supporting good, strong spending and the economy is doing well, and I think US growth is making a contribution to stronger global outcomes as well. So you just pointed to a number of things that are positive about the US economy. But we've done a lot of reporting in recent months that here at Bloomberg, who sent reporters out all across the country, and what we're hearing from people on the ground is that when you ask them about their personal finances, they feel pretty good. For a lot of the reasons you just mentioned the labor market, their ability as consumers to spend, But when you ask them about the direction of the US economy, the sentiment is much more downbeat. So what can you do to close the gap on the positive side in terms of how people feel about the US economy, especially as we head into an election year. So I think Ricans have been through a lot with the pandemic and the lockdown for almost two years than a period of high inflation. And as you say, they do seem to feel good about their own personal finances. Surveys of job satisfaction suggests people feel good about their work too. We've rarely seen higher numbers on job satisfaction, but they seem very worried about the economy and that things are not doing well. You know, the US economy has suffered from structural problems from a very long time. For a very long time, A significant share of the population, particularly those who haven't had a college education, who have really not seen meaningful growth in their real income and have seen a decline in job opportunities over really approaching fifty years. And I think what Americans need to know is that the Biden Harris administration is really decisively changing that we are investing in America. We have passed three a trifecta of legislation that people will increasingly see who've been suffering from a shortage of job opportunities. I think they're really going to see things change. First of all, we're spending an enormous amount to repair America's infrastructure, and increasingly people are going to see their roads that they get hung up on every day. It's hard to commute with potholes everywhere. It's going to be fixed, Bridges are going to be improved. Reports, people are going to within the next several years, virtually every American will have access to good, good internet, so improving digital economy. And we've seen an enormous set of investments announced in response, largely to the Chips and Semiconductors Act and to the Inflation Reduction Act in clean energy, and jobs are being created. What we see in this past year is that a disproportionate share of the jobs that are being created are in communities that have had less economic opportunity, communities with below average incomes and with a below average share of people who have a college education. So this means that uppportunity will increasingly come to people who really haven't in a sense, gotten a fair shake over the last fifty years, as they've seen jobs disappear. And you know, President Biden and Vice President Harris and I really believe that you ought to have access to a good job, even if you don't have a college education. And increasingly I think people will see that good opportunities are being created. Certainly, the President is trying to go out and explain to people what this longer term, medium term agenda. He would say, it's a matter of growing the economy from the bottom up, in the middle out. What we've had is too much of trying to grow the economy to trickle down from the going with gains going to the top with a hope that it will trickle down. And I think we beginning to see the fruits of these investments begin beginning to pay off. So I think the Americans have a lot to look forward to and beginning to see this in their daily laws. So we were just talking about americans perception of the economy. But another thing we follow closely here at Bloomberg globally is investors perception of the economy. So I want to ask you a little bit about the rise in yields that we've seen. We've seen yields surging over the last few weeks. The ten year treasury rose above five percent earlier this week. What's your view on what is driving that surgeon yields and how much of it is connected to investors' concerns about the US deficit. Well, I don't think much of it is connected to that. This is a global phenomenon in advanced countries. We're seeing yields go up in most advanced countries of the world, and largely I think it's a reflection of the resilience that people are seeing in the US economy. That we're not having a recession, that consumer spending and demand continue to be strong. The economy is continuing continuing to show tremendous robustness, and that suggests that interest rates are likely to stay higher for longer, and so part of the increase in yields I think is simply a reflection of the strength of the economy, the notion that interest rates will be higher for longer. Now, whether or not that's really true, if we look at five or ten years, what are interest rates likely to do? Honestly, for a very long time we've felt that interest rates over decades had been coming down real interest rates, and that there were deep structural reasons for that, in part relating to demographics and those underlying trends. They're still there, they're still in force. So I think it's perfectly possible that we will see longer term yields come down, but nobody really knows for sure. But I see the higher yields as certainly importantly a reflection for stronger economy. So when you think about the deficit, I think one of your preferred metrics for assessing US fiscal stability is to look at the net interest outlay as adjusted test relation. And right now, I think you've said that those levels seem good to you, but there are in real terms, it's about one percent a little bit under that. So that's helpful in terms of kind of the next figure I was going to mention is several economists out there are forecasting that that figure by twenty thirty could be well north of two percent. So at that level, would you be alarmed? In terms of the sustain fhysical sustainability. Let me just say, fiscal sustainability is really critical, and President Biden is committed to putting forward a fiscal plan that shows fiscal sustainability and uncertainty about interest rates. Interest rates do influence what the path of that real net interest is going to be. There's a bigger challenge if the interest rate path stays higher. President Biden has already supported deficit reduction measures in the Pact, raising the dead ceiling and other legislation. In the Inflation Reduction Act, there's a trillion dollars of deficit reduction, and he proposed a budget that both invests in America continues to do that and also has riffin you raising measures that would result in another two and a half trillion dollars of deficit reduction over the next decade. So, yes, we have to put forward fiscal plans that will keep the deficit manageable and keep this real net interest cost I would say well below two percent. So the higher the interest rate path, the more that we need to do. I want to take a moment a secretary and turn to the global outlook. With the Israel Hamas war happening in the Middle East, I think there's a concern by some that the war could spread or expand to broader in the region. I know that that's not your base case. But if that was to happen, could you walk us through your wrist scenario for what that might mean to the global economy. So I guess I have to say my focus is, I look now at what's happening to the Middle East. Really is the tragedy, the human tragedy that's taking place with the Israelis have suffered, and of course we're worried about casualties in Gaza as Israel, you know, pursues its war against Thomas and so it's really the human suffering that I think should be our focus in countering terrorism. We're monitoring the economic consequences carefully. I so far, I would say we've not yet seen much that has global consequences. Oil prices are largely flat. What could happened if the war expands. Of course there could be more meaningful consequences, but I think it's premature to speculate against about those, and I think our focus should be keeping miscontained and not spreading so on Hamas. I know the Treasury Department has taken further moves in the last few weeks to restrict financing to Hamas, and your under secretary Brian Nelson is actually in the Middle East right now. Do you think there's room for further restricting or limiting financing to Hamas and if so, can you tell us what might be some of the next steps. So I can't comment on any specifics concerning sanctions we have not yet put in place, but what I can say is we have taken a large number of steps just over the last year to put in place sanctions to try to reduce the avenues for financing of Hamas, and in the aftermath of this attack last week, we put additional sanctions in place. My Undersecretary, as you mentioned, will be in the Middle East and Deputy Secretary Ademo is leaving tonight for a trip to Europe to also discuss working with our allies on sanctions. And we are certainly looking at further opportunities we see to try to reduce this flow of financing to Himas where all over this and are likely to do more. So. One final question on the Middle East before before we turn to other topics on Iran, can you help us understand are the six billion dollars in Iranian oil proceed assets the US treasury from access by Iran right now as they sit in a Katari account. I guess all I can really tell you is that not a penny of that money has been touched. The Trump administration agreed to allow Iran to sell oil, and the sales were largely to Korea, and the proceeds were held in a Korean bank account and only permitted to be used for humanitarian purposes, without any direct funding ever going to Iran. And those proceeds were moved from Koreer to Kitar. They still sit there. They can only be used for humanitarian purposes. They have not been used. And I don't feel comfortable saying more about diplomatic conversations that are taking place, but Iran has not touched those phones. We just as mentioned diplomacy, and so much of your role as secretary has been actually traveling around the world. We often think of the Treasury Department as so domestic, but so much of what you've done is international, and you're seen as a liberal economist supportive of free trade. I wondered your thoughts on how concerned are you that some of the Biden policies may be sealing a mistrust of globalization that was ramped up in the Trump administration. And whether that's actually good for the US economy. Well, I think that's a great question. I've talked about concept I call friendsuring. So I think it's a consequence partly of the pandemic and partly Russia's invasion of Ukraine. We've come to the realization that our supply chains, America's supply chains are not secure, and in some cases we're overly dependent on countries like China. And what we need to do is to take steps as a country to reduce our vulnerability and to diversify our supply chains. And to some extent that involves reassuring things to the United States and doing more here, and certainly in the area of clean energy. The Inflation Reduction Act has incentives to do more in the United States, and the desire there, in part is to create good jobs in industries that are likely to be drivers of future growth, whether it's semiconductors or clean energy. But we don't want to forego the benefits of globalization and trade, and so the idea of friendshuring is that we want to be able to rely on a broader set of countries to do trade and investment. To deepen our trade and investment relationships with countries that we feel are trustworthy that can be reliable parts of a global supply chain that we take part in. And part of what I've been doing is traveling around the world talking to countries about developing our supply chain relations And of course we're very close partners with Europe, with Canada, Mexico, other countries with whom we have free trade areas, but many more countries. We're deepening our relationships with India, with Vietnam, So we want this to be broad. We understand and that the international division of labor with countries taking advantage of the benefits of comparative advantage, doing what you're most efficient at, relatively efficient at that this is a great set of benefits both for the United States and also countries that are given the opportunity to trade and that contributes to their growth. So we don't want to forego that, and we do want to maintain the benefits of globalization, but without the vulnerability that comes from a undue reliance on a few countries that may restrict trade for political or other reasons. So you mentioned broadening our network of friends that we can have partnerships with, but also China I know you took a trip to China and to Beijing this summer. You've been talking about how our policy should really be around de risking or diversifying rather than decoupling. But what do you think is the current status of that. Do you think the Chinese have adopted that and feel like they can trust us on that front, or do you think they still really think that we're in a competition with them first and foremost. So, I mean we've particulated a strategy. As you said, it involves de risking in some areas where we're overly dependent on China, and clean energy is a good example. We also intend to focus on national security. That's an area that we're not willing to compromise on, and so we do have export controls. We continue to review them. We're working on a set of restrictions on outbound and vestment to China. We've discussed this with them and put out a proposal that's in the public domain. I think comments just closed on it. But our objective there is to target what we do as narrowly as possible so that it really focuses on national security. That it is not an intention in that to harm the prospects of Chinese economic development and the welfare of the Chinese people. So we intend to have healthy competition and mutually beneficial trade and investment with China in many areas. I've tried to make this clear. And then importantly, the third prong of it is we need to work together on global problems. Debt relief is one of those problems. Climate changes another, but there are many examples. So that's what we're trying to do in terms of our strategy. You know, President Biden and President she met in Bali. I guess it's just over a year ago. I was at that meeting. In more or less two over two years, almost no senior level contact had taken place during the pandemic between China and the United States, and I think that was a dangerous situation. And especially when there are disagreements, it's actually important to be able to discuss them, to talk through, to see the other country's point of view, and to discuss areas where you're not in sync. And it was recognized by both sides that we needed to talk more to deep in our discussions, exchange of information, and particularly in economic areas macroeconomic performance, financial markets, where our behavior has spillovers a back and forth to one another, and also our decisions affect the global outlook as a whole. And that's what I tried to begin in my meetings that I had in China, and things have continued very positively from there. We've formed two working groups. They report to me and my Chinese counterpart of Phone. One concerns economic matters, the other financial matters. The working groups met earlier this week. Both of them met and we now have a set of very constructive and deepening discussions about areas of mutual concern. And it's good to have contacts throughout our chain. It levels below Secretary staff low full discussions and channels of communication where when the problem arises, each side can pick up the phone and discuss it before it rises to the level of a real, really serious disagreement. So I think this agenda is working. We certainly will continue to deepen our economic relationship and discussions, and I'm feeling very good about how things are going there. Turning back to the US Secretary Yellen, you've described the Biden administration's economic policies as something you referred to as modern supply side economics, and with those policies. They're aiming to increase the productive capacity in the US. That's right, Well, that's a pretty good big goal. So can you talk to me a little bit about how long do you think it's going to take for some of those policies to become entrenched enough that they stick and have a real impact people. And the reason I'm asking is because I'm looking ahead to next year. The election is coming up. What's at stake if the Democrats don't retain the White House in terms of the ability for some of those policies to take hold. So, yes, modern supply side economics, it's in part of growth strategy, and this is something Republicans and Democrats I think share. A desire to see real wages and incomes increase, to see economic welfare for the broad set of Americans to improve over time, and an economic growth or quote supply side strategy. This isn't a matter of demand management. It's a matter of improving our economy's ability to produce goods and services over the medium to long term. I think agree on that it's widely accepted. The Republican strategy has been, as I said, largely a trickle down strategy of giving tax breaks or deregulation to the rich and corporations in the expectation or hope that benefits would trickle down. More broadly, I see that as a failed strategy and one that has really not been successful it creating broad shared prosperity. And I see modern supply side economics as having the same objective but proceeding in a different way. And there are many factors that are inputs into growth besides private investment. For too long we ignored infrastructure. So investing in America's infrastructure as a return produces benefits R and D. You know, we're now really after having decades in which US spending on research and development, certainly at the federal level, had fallen to very low levels. Were no longer one of the leading countries in terms of the resources we devote to R and D. That we've stepped that up substantially in the legislation that's been passed. And what we want is also growth. It's equitable, so addressing inequality as saying, for over fifty years, essentially the median American really saw very little growth, little or no growth in their real income. We want to change that. We want to make sure that opportunities are created, especially for those who don't have a college education and live in places. You know, we've had so much growth on the coasts, but many parts of the country geographies that it seems progress is passed by. And so if you look at the legislation that's been passed and the investment plans that have been announced, we've seen over six hundred billion dollars in new investments that have been announced. Now, it takes a while to get those in place, but look at where are those investments occurring. There are occurring in parts of the country that have not seen that kind of investment. And you know, we're seeing electric vehicle production and battery production in many parts of the country that have been sorely hurting for good jobs. And so it will take a while for Americans to see the benefits of this. But even now, I think many Americans can see the good jobs are being created in manufacturing, which is not done well over decades in the United States. So I believe that opportunities will be created and people will be able to see that over time in their daily lives. No matter what secretary you've been in public service nearly five decades now, holding the it's a long time. It's a lot of working years. As you show the labor economists, I will say that you've held the top economic posts across the CEA, FED and now Treasury. But you're also known as a technocrat and a policy maker rather than a political animal. Per se. When you look at the divisiveness in Washington, and we've just seen the past few weeks, even just on Capitol Hill, are you concerned that there's less and less room for a person like you to come into government in Washington and make a notable difference at the highest levels if you're not as politically driven as policy driven. I guess I see that we have a government that is filled with people who are professional, technically proficient, and dedicated to good policy. And we are trying to put in place good, sound, technically solid government policy in almost everything we do. And in spite of the difficult political environment that we're in, President Biden and Vice President Harris, in the time they have been in office, have succeeded in a bipartisan way in having a great deal of meaningful legislation passed. The Treasury Department. I spend a good share of my time working with very capable people in our tax policy Department. We're charged with writing all of the rules that are governing of the tax incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act. Those that will are really creating enormous opportunities in connection with clean energy, and we've gotten an allocation of funds to restore the Internal Revenue Service, to restore their ability to both serve American customers who deserve to have somebody answered the phone when you when you call and have been missing that for a long time, and also to actually collect the taxes that our tax code says people owe. And when you think about the fact that over over ten years, that gap, namely the quantity of tax revenue that's due but not paid, is estimated it's seven trillion dollars. We're in the process of restoring all of that. And the people who are doing this are a largely a civil service that is tremendously competent, professional and dedicated to making the United States function well. So I think there's plenty of scope for good policy, and I hope we're in the process of doing it in spite of some of the what seems like political dysfunction in our country. Well Secretary Yellen, Thank you so much for joining us today and giving us so much of your time and sharing your insights. It's a true pleasure. Thank you so much. Thanks for having that. Thank you, the Secretary of the US Treasury. They are Jannet Yellen, speaking with our very own Peggy Collins and our Washington BureauSee 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Bloomberg Washington Correspondents Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz deliver 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 and Kailey speak with: Ret. Gen. Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO, about the ongoing conflict in Israel. Bloomberg Politics Contributors Rick Davis and Jeanne Sheehan Zaino about what's next for Congress now that a new Speaker of the House has been elected. Palm Beach Country State Attorney Dave Aronberg about the legal challenges former President Donald Trump is facing. 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 You're listening to the Bloomberg Sound On podcast. Catch us live weekdays at one Eastern on Bloomberg dot com, the iHeartRadio app, and the Bloomberg Business app, or listen on demand wherever you get your podcast. The Democratic Leader in the House calls on the new speaker to take shutdown off the table, and Israel conducts raids in Gaza to prepare for the next phase. Welcome to the fastest show in politics with twin leads this day in Washington. After the new Speaker was installed and Hamas now claims Israeli raids have killed almost fifty hostages. We'll talk about the next steps in Israel and the threat posed by Iran. Coming up with retired Army General Wesley Clark, a former Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, with analysis today from our signature panel. They're both back with us. Bloomberg Politics contributors Rick Davis and Gdi Shanzano will be with us for the hour to distill a lot of information from the past twenty five four hours here in Washington. A bit later this hour, a special conversation with the Secretary of the Treasury Jennet Yellen, is with us today in our offices at Bloomberg in Washington. Our bureau chief Peggy Collins will be conducting an interview across the platforms here, the radio, the satellite, and YouTube coming up in just about a half hour's time. So you want to stay with us for an important conversation ahead as we begin on Capitol Hill now, and welcome General Wesley Clark to the conversation. It's good to see you, General, I know you're on Capitol Hill as you join us today from the Russell Rotunda to talk with Senators about threats posed by Iran and our policy towards Iran. I'd like to start by asking you though about the urgency around a supplemental budget request that now there is a new speaker, there's going to be some action on this. In your thoughts on how quickly and what is needed for Israel now, Well, we need the full request that the administration's made, We need it passed as rapperly as possible. And let's not forget it's not just Israel, it's also Ukraine. The two are linked. Russia and Iran are strategic partners, and you can be sure that Vladimir Putin is really happy to see what's going on in Israel. How much he had to do with it, Maybe we won't know for a while, but we know Iran had a lot to do with it. We have to understand that this Both actions are threats to democracy, it's the international order, the rule of law in the world today, and of course obviously to our business community internationally. So we have to keep both in mind when need to get that those appropriations passed immediately. Well, there does seem to be an appetite for supporting Israel in this case general. But there is an argument overfunding for Ukraine, and I know that the Republican Conference in the House is looking to bring an Israel only bill to the floor. What do you make of this argument? Sixty billion dollars for Ukraine with some members saying not another dollar. But the president, as you just put it, is trying to link the two together as a matter of national security. You see continuity between these two requests. They are linked together. Vladimir Putin is working with Iran, Iran's working with Putin. Yes, they're linked, but also understand this, that's sixty billion dollars for Ukraine. Most of that money doesn't go to Ukraine. That money goes to the United States. That's keeping and building up our industrial base to face the challenges of the Middle East, to face future challenges in NATO, and of course to face the challenge of China. We've let our industrial base, our military industrial base, deteriorate over the last thirty years since the end of the Cold War. We allowed a wholesale consolidation of defense industries. We reduced the rates of supply that we need of everything. Is this sort of half step, We've got to put that money into our own base. The appropriations we've already given to Ukraine. That money went to American firms. We just gave them a bunch of old equipment, old ammunition. We need to keep that system alive and strengthen it for the challenges ahead. That's why putting Ukraine in that appropriations bill is so important. Well, there's so much to talk about here general. We talk about the DIB here on the program, the defense industrial base that you're referring to. This goes for Israel as well, And I think that's your point, right. If we're going to be making missiles to replenish the Iron Dome, for instance, we do not have a manufacturing chain, according to companies like Raytheon to make them fast enough. How do we accelerate that process? Does this supplemental request? Do it supply and demand put the money into it. The companies will respond, but without that funding, No, if they can't hire the people, invest in the capital goods that are necessary create the supply chaange. No, they have to have contracts, and these are multi year contracts procurement contracts by the Defense Department, and that requires a funding. So it's very simple, and it's if you don't do it now, who knows what's going to happen in twenty four, twenty five, twenty twenty six, twenty seven with Taiwan. So all of this is linked. You can't artificially separate it. Well, are you hearing that message received on Capitol Hill today? I trust you're talking with members of both parties. I know you're briefing senators today on our Iran policy. What do they say to you about this matter, the supplemental request and the need for a more streamlined and enhanced manufacturing chain. Well, I think they're all generally in support of this. In the United States Senate, the question is the House, and there's a lot of let's say, misunderstanding in the House about what the funding for Ukraine actually does and why it's needed. And hopefully this can become something that can be corrected by information and not just sort of a partisan tagline. But the big thing up here today is Iran and what we're going to do about Iran. You know, we've tried for forty years to work with this government in Iran. We've pulled on it, pushed on it, we've appeased it, we've patted it on the back, we've sanctioned it, we've threatened it. Nothing changes the direction of this Iranian government. They use terror and murder at home and abroad. They want regional dominance. They've destroyed the state of Lebanon. They've built a huge military complex and they've forward positioned it through his Bilah ready to attack Israel. Look, this crisis in Hamas brings this to a head. Can't appease this government in Iran. It's time to let the Iranian people have a government that represents them. And that means we, the United States, stage and our allies need to delegitimize the Iyatolas, get rid of them in international organizations, cut off their access to funding, sanction individually, get after their families, stop this government from having control over its people. Doesn't take a war, don't want an invasion. But if we keep going the way we're going, Iran is going to provoke a war in the region. And that's the day. Well, I'd like to ask you more about that. Let me first ask you about the Biden administration's repeated message that there is no actual evidence that Iran was directly involved in or helped plan or fund the Hamas terror attack. Do you need to see that evidence or is that kind of missing the point in this conversation. You're pointing to a long history that the administration is also acknowledged, but without that evidence to put the two together, the presidents seems to be a bit tied up on this. Do you think, well, I think it's I think it's what the administration's appetite is for acting in many different directions at once, and what the capacity is Washington typically is a one crisis at a time town. And you know, we've got a crisis right now. We're worried about what Israel will do in Gaza, will they have the support they need? What about his law and what I'm suggesting is you've got to go to the source, and the source is Iran. Now is it the immediate source? Did the Iranians tell the Hamas people on this specific day, I want you to go out this specific gate, come in with these paragliders, kill these people. No, probably not, But we do know have evidence that they trained a bunch of Palestinian fighters as late as September. We know there are meetings that have been held. Do we know what's said in those meetings? Well, not at the unclassified level, and maybe we don't even know at the most secret level. It's a question of how the administration sees its way through the crisis. And what I'm suggesting is that you have to be able to do more than one thing at a time. You've got Ukraine, that's a critical at a critical state right now. They need sustainment and they're facing a really tough Russian attack. In the northeast, You've got Israel and Gaza, and then you've got the region, and so in the region you have to understand the source of these tensions. It is Iran. And there's nothing like a crisis to bring on a path to a resolution. And in this case the resolution is to delegitimate that government in Tehran. There's talk about a second or third front opening. I know that's a great fear of the administration and the Pentagon general, But when you look around, we've already seen incursions repeatedly to the north. We've seen attacks against US military installations in Iraq and Syria. We've seen an American warship intercept cruise missiles from Yemen. Are the second and third fronts already hot? Is this already happening? Well, let's put it this way. They're warming it up. But I don't think the decision has been made by the Ayatolas to really open up the northern front yet. It's it's nuisances right now. Yeah, they're killing people, they're firing, but they haven't really committed. They want to wait and see what Israel is able to do in Gaza, whether it's so deeply enmeasure in Gaza that it can't defend itself from the north, whether the whole world turns against it because of the need to bring heavy firepower in an urban area to dislodge Hamas, if they can bring world opinion totally against it, isolate the United States and Israel. If they think the Israelis can't protect themselves from all three directions at once, then maybe they will unleash his blow. And they haven't made that decision yet, as we can tell publicly. General, while you're with us, I want to ask you about the matter of military readiness in the blockade on military promotions in the Senate. You might have even spoken with Tommy Tubberville today, but there's a new effort that Democrats are making to send a resolution to the Rules Committee that would allow three hundred plus promotions that have been held up to all go to the floor at one time. Would you support that movement? Is it set a bad precedent? Oh? I think it's essential at this point. Look, Senator TULLVERRLL has made his point. Everybody understands where he stands, what he stands for, that he's a man who's willing to fight for what he believes in. Okay, enough is enough. Let's get on with getting these military leaders and their families and their right positions and preparing for the challenges that are on our doorstep right now. There's no time to waste on this. Is it impacting our readiness? There's no doubt about it. Have you talked to Tommy Tubberville to let him know your thoughts. Well, I haven't talked to him on this. No, I'm one of many in the retired general officer ranks who's watching this very anxiously. I'd be delighted if he would call me and ask me for some his assistance or advice on it. He's got to back his way out, and he hasn't been willing to do that. But you know, he's a senator. He's do his respect, and he has the right to put a hold on nominations. But enough's enough. Let's get on with the business of the United States government. You've been generous with your time today. General. I wonder lastly, as you're speaking with senators, are you also talking to the administration about policy toward Iran, next step, sanctions, whatever you think the next step should be. Well, I talk to anybody who will listen on this. This is a looming crisis that we've seen coming for some time. And you know, there's an odd thing about Iran. When things are quiet and they're not attacking our troops and there's diplomacy going on, people say, well, don't worry, so much about it. Us don't shake the tree, and then when there's a crisis, people say, oh, this is a crisis. This is no time to reach in to change the policy. And so we never seem to want to move past what's been forty years of fruitless efforts one way or another to engage with this Iranian regime. It is time to recognize that this is an illegitimate regime and get it out of international legitimacy. General Wesley Clark, we appreciate the time and the insights today on Bloomberg. Thank you for joining us. This is Bloomberg Sound On. I'm Joe, Matthew and Washington. As we assemble our panel here the day after we got a speaker. Rick Davis and Genie Shanzino are with us now, Bloomberg Politics Contributor's great to have you both here. Genie, what's your thought about what we just heard? Because the General sounded a lot like Rick Davis, to be honest with regard to Iran. This is, of course a man who ran for president as a Democrat. Is there a daylight between what he's saying and what we're hearing from Joe Biden? Yeah, I mean it's a fascinating conversation because I do think there is a divide in the Democratic Party on this, and there has been for some time. You know, we can go back to Barack Obama's approach to Iran, but you can go back even further, and I think he is echoing what is a sort of in the momentum continuing to gain hold, which is that efforts to what some people describe as a peace or some people describe as contain I mean, there's a lot of different adjectives you can use. Iran simply have not worked, and what has happened since October seventh, but even earlier is proved positive of that. But the problem is there is very little agreement on where to go forward and how to go forward. I mean, shared Brown's view on what the Banking Committee alone should do on Iran is fascinating and shows this divide. So there's a necessary conversation, and you were just having a really key part of it with somebody with very strong views on this. Yeah, what do you think, Rick, what should the next move be for the Biden administration? The generals on Capitol Hill to sound the alarm today? Do they need to move past the idea of finding evidence that links Iran. I mean, the general's talking about shutting this down, even going after their families. Yeah, I think it's parsing that's actually just going to make them look weak in the eyes of the American public. You know. Look, I mean, Ran has been a horrible influence in the region around the world for as long as the Iatola has been running it, and we've allowed that to sustain itself. We're afraid of the development of their nuclear weapons. We don't want to get in a scrape with them in the Middle East, and yet they dictate all the terms that occur there. I mean, the reason that this is all happening is because through US efforts to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, they put a kebash to it, and and so like, who's not surprised by all this? And and this naivete within the Biden administration that they can somehow do business with Iran but let them be a pure and interest in the region is absolutely insane. They've got to rationalize this to us in their relationship with Iran in a way that is absolutely clear to the American public, which is Iran's the enemy. They've always been the enemy. They're always going to be the enemy. They don't have the same views around the world, values that we all hold dear on human life. And just look at what they've been able to accomplish in the region, you know, supporting Hamas, supporting Husbala, supporting Syrian Islamis. I mean, it's it's there's nothing positive about their conduct whatsoever. So let's quit saying, oh, well, there's no direct evidence that they pulled the triggers. It's a little bit late for that. We'll have a lot more with our panel, Rick Davis and Genie Shanzano. We haven't even gotten to the matter of the speaker race. The new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson making waves already today in Washington and meeting with Biden administration officials about avoiding a shutdown. We're going to get to that next with Rick and Jeannie on the Fastest Show in Politics. I'm Joe, Matthew and Washington. Thanks for being with us on the radio, on the satellite, and on YouTube. Search Bloomberg Global News to find us. This is Bloomberg. You're listening to the Bloomberg Sound on podcast. Catch the program live weekdays at one Eastern on Bloomberg Radio, the tune in app, Bloomberg dot Com, and the Bloomberg Business App. You can also listen live on Amazon Alexa from our flagship New York station, Just Say Alexa play Bloomberg eleven thirty Live from Washington with breaking news on the new Speaker of the House. It's the first full day on the job for Speaker Johnson. Meeting with Biden administration's administration officials. Easy for me to say on the big funding request we were just talking about with the general here, bipartisan briefing with congressional leadership. This is the first time the Speaker is interfacing with the Biden administration as the man who holds the gavel. And it's coming less than twenty four hours after the big celebration on the steps of the House after he made the grade. He was joined by all the members of the Republican Conference and it was a LoveFest. We're going to act consistently. We're going to exhibit two things here, trust and teamwork, and this group will deliver for the American people. I said it in the Chamber and I will say it here. We're going to govern well, We're going to govern well endorsed by everyone else who wanted to get the job, including Steve Scalise. You know, if you think about what's happened these last three weeks, while a lot of people outside of Washington and talk about dysfunction, this great group of men and women behind me have been talking about how to fix what's broken in Washington, and so this was really good for everybody. Ask Tom Emmer, this is like the best time he ever had. I guess remember you had the nomination for I think four hours. From an outside point of view, these last few weeks probably looked like total chaos, confusion. Oh, I don't no end in sight. But from my perspective, this is one of the greatest experiences in recent history, in the recent history of our republic. We couldn't have planned it better. Let's reassemble the panel. Rick Davis and Genie Shanzey no Bloomberg Politics contributors. Haven't heard from either of you yet. Can't wait, Rick, what do you think of our new Speaker of the House? Well, I'm holding my breath. Is he a member of the Vote No Hope, Yes Caucus? He voted against Ukraine funding when all three of those people McCarthy, Emmer and Scleeves voted yes. What kind of leadership is he going to give if he's opposing those kinds of things? I don't know. I'm very nervous that we've got a deadlock house of representatives. It's only going to make bad look worse. Wow. Joe Biden was asked about him yesterday, Genie. He was in the Rose Garden with the Prime Minister of Australia. The question pretty obvious for this president, knowing that this is not only an election denier, but someone who actually wrote the amicus brief in the Texas case to bring this to the Supreme Court. Here's how it went to the White House. If you win reelection in twenty twenty four, are you worried that a Speaker Johnson would again attempt to overturn the election? No? Why not? Because he can't? Look just like I was not worried that the last time I'd be able to overturn the election. They have not sixty lawsuits and all the way to the the Supreme Court, and every time they lost. I understand the constitution. Do you share his Confidenie? Well, I applaud Joe Biden, Unlike Mike Johnson for answering the question, because of course, yesterday when Mike Johnson was asked the question he was it was Virginia Fox. I think who said shut up, shut up to the report. So you know, he's a constitutional lawyer described as a constitutional scholar, but he does not want to get up there and answer questions. So thank you to the President for answering. The President seems confident. I'm gonna go with Rick and say I'm holding my breath on this aspect of it, you know, Mike Johnson, and I'm so glad you raised that amicus cure I brief. It's one of the most confounding things that he would write the brief to help the disgraced Ken Paxton try to say that Texas can overturn the votes of four other states, something that even the hardliners on the Supreme Court found so baffling constitutionally that they didn't even take the case. And that is Mike Johnson. We don't know how he's going to behave and as speaker, he may turn out to be a great speaker. We simply don't know. But the reality is we know what he's done before, and that is lead the effort to vote to overturn the twenty election, defend Donald Trump, and also support Ken Paxton in the ridiculousness of Texas overturning other states votes for the presidency. Rick, we only have a couple of minutes before our sit down conversation with the Treasury Secretary. How concerned are you that every member of the Republican Conference voted for an election? Denier? Yeah, look, I think it's a it's a bad form. I'm shocked that Emmer didn't press the point of actually having a floor vote for his own Speakership candidacy. Frankly, I suspect a bunch of Democrats would have voted for him, because in retrospect you look at that and say, gee, we could have had Emmer. Democrats are going to really pay a price for for not having the opportunity to put a reasonable Republican in the seat who actually believed the elections weren't flawed. So this has been a horrible three week period for the Republican Party. I think the onus is going to be on Speaker Johnson to try and write that ship. Nothing in his background indicates that he has the ability to do that. So this is a real test by Fire. You're listening to the Bloomberg Sound on podcast. Catch us live weekdays at one Eastern on Bloomberg dot Com, the iHeartRadio app, and the Bloomberg Business App, or listen on demand wherever you get your podcasts. Then there's the former president, who, in these wild times we've really only been talking about through the guise of the speaker race. But this is Donald Trump, who's been in court every day lately to talk about the value of his company or face off with Michael Cohen or whatever might be happening. Ye did you see he took the stand yesterday? I did. This is incredible. Now we keep seeing him in the lobby and people are asking questions about yesterday, violating the gag order in this case New York curious where with respect to what very no any other questions, any other questions. They're trying to figure out who was he talking about? Who was he disparaging because he goes in there and he just you know, he lobs, spitballs at everybody and talks negatively about the judge, about the prosecutor in this case, though the judge issued a ten thousand dollars fine for what is Donald Trump's second violation of a gag order in the civil fraud trial against him New York State and called him to the stand, asking him to talk about what he meant with these remarks. Immediately told him he was not credible. Sit down. Here's a ten thousand dollars fine. Yeah, and as you said, this is the second fine, because last week he was fined five thousand dollars for violating disorder. This is incredible. We kind of knew Joe right that this is the former president we are talking about. We know how open he usually is with his commentary. And when all of these either restricted gag orders or you know, different judges doing different things, it was a question, how are you actually going to enforce that? And I guess we're seeing it enforced in this case. But there's many others to consider as well. Well. There are a lot of others. And that's why I can't believe we have Dave Ehrenberg in Washington and at the table with us. You've heard him, you've seen him on zoom and the Palm Beach County State Attorney is with us in person. What a treat. It's great to see you. Welcome to the Capitol. It is great to be with you. Both guys are too good looking to be on radio. Well that's why they're on YouTube now too. My god, Yes, we're doing everything with you today. It's great and thanks for coming. My gosh, your thoughts on the gag order? Here? Will this be kind of a weekly Obviously ten thousand dollars is not a matter for Donald Trump, but to be kind of spanked publicly by the judge like that is remarkable. He got up and left. He walked out before the session was over. I think he gets under Trump's skin like this case, whether it's a gag order from a judge he does not like, or for the valuation of mar Lago at between eighteen and twenty eight million, which is really way below market value. It cuts him to the core to have to see what's going on there. Even though this is not a criminal case. He will not be sent to jail for this case, but this one is personal for him and as far as what the future punishments will be for him if he continues to violate the gag order, I think the judge will continue to find him increasing amounts of money. It's ten thousand dollars this time, maybe the next time he will be fifty and then on. But I do not expect this judge to sentence him to jail for contempt because after all, it's a civil case, not a criminal one. Well, and it is a civil case, so are we just going to see him stop showing up. He's not mandated to be there in the room, right correct, Unlike a criminal case, he does not have to be there for this civil trial. But he has his own reasons. He wanted to glower and Michael Cohen. He really hates his former lawyer. He wants the optics of looking like he's the aggrieved individual here. He wants people and his party to believe that somehow he's entitled to a jury trial and the court wouldn't give it to him, when it's really his own lawyer, Alena Haba, who forgot to check the right box. So he only has his own lawyers to blame. But nothing fuels Maga like grievance and martyrdom. That's why he's showing up and just having a blast talking to cameras every day. But to be called to the stand like that, it was like, you know, the troubled student called at the front of the class to be scolded. How often are we going to see that type of thing. The idea of Donald Trump ending up on the stand might suggest it's not always wise to show up when you don't have that's right. You know, he can end up in a perjury trap himself, and so it's not always a great idea. But look, lawyers can't control their own defendants, especially defendants their clients like Donald Trump. Donald Trump wants to be there, he will be there, and he has other motivations. It's about the optics. He's the leading candidate for president, and he wants people to believe that I am aggrieved. I could be in Iowa right now, but I have to be here, when in reality he was missing a golf match by being in court. Excellent, But it's all about show. Yeah, well, we definitely know that for sure that the former president does have a reputation for being quite a showman every day. This is how he operates. And as we were just alluding to, this is just one case that he is facing, and it's a civil case. He's facing a multitude of criminal cases as well. And the one I think that has been the most interesting over the course of the last several weeks is Georgia the racketeering case. There's now been what four plea deals, some high profile including Jenna Ellis, Mark Sidney Powell, Mark Meadows, Scott Hall. Do you think this is just dominoes that are going to fall one by one? How do you think this is going to play out? I think there'll be more defendants copying the plea. They're going to get FOMO. These other defendants, I fear a missing out. And there's what fourteen others here that we are considering. Look at this. If you're on YouTube, you can see all the mugshots that got them in two different columns. Now, yeah, see, I'm guilty, all not guilty. All those folks in the right, they all have FOMO. They are worrying that the longer they weigh, the worst the deal will get. Right now, the folks on the left, if you're on YouTube, you can see the four of them, they got plea deals with no jail time. They were facing years in prison. But first one in is the first to win. That's something defense law is like to say. If you get in first the prosecutor's door, you get the best deal. But that door is closing soon and I anticipate that future plea deals. Maybe not yet, but pretty soon they'll start including incarceration. Wow, what do you make of the Meadows deal? Specifically, as compelled as I am to talk about Sidney Powell at any turn, the idea here, and we've heard a lot of people suggest this, including Chris Christy yesterday, of course, a former prosecutor. You don't just cut a deal with the chief of staff who was clearly involved in this and may well deserve to be punished for his role that he played unless he's really got some important Was that the deal that closes the walls in on Donald Trump? Well, we don't know. Joe Weather Mark Meadows cut a deal with prosecutors other than receiving immunity to test why before the grand jury. So apparently he spoke to Jacksmith's team three separate times this year and test why before the grand jury. You cannot force someone to self incriminate unless you give them immunity at the grand jury. That's what happens. So they call him before the grand jury, they say we're going to give you immunity, and then he testifies truthfully. But as far as weather he entered into a non prosecution deal where I will be a cooperating witness in return for your not prosecuting me. That's not clear. It's be up to ultimately Jack Smith and Mark Meadows whether it goes that far. But right now I'm just thinking he just tests by before the grand jury got immunity for his testimony, and I can't extrapolate beyond that. That's really something we should clarify. That is the January sixth case here in Washington, And I'm actually curious the Sydney and the others you mentioned in Georgia, Kayley, are they also talking to Jack Smith at the same time. There's no indication that Sidney Powell is talking to Jack Smith, but it looks like Mark Meadows people wanted us to know that he was talking to the grand jury to Jack Smith for whatever reason. Now what's interesting is how does Fannie Willis take this. Fannie Wills has got to be concerned that she really should not try to use the information that Mark Meadows gave to Jack Smith under immunity against him in the state case, because then there are some complex issues of whether state proscuers can feed off of the information where he was grand immunity. There was an Oliver North case, you remember that guy. He was ultimately cleared or at least found the case was thrown out against him because of those types of issues. So proscuers are very careful. So I think what's going to happen is she's going to continue to go after Mark Meadows, who is an indicted individual in Fulton County, based on the evidence she accumulates, not on the evidence that Jack Smith gives her. But overall Marcmetto's aside with the other plea deals that have now been entered, her job is getting easier, not harder, generally, right, It is definitely getting easier when you have a number of your co defendants flip because nineteen co defendants, that's very difficult, and in a reco case that takes months to try. What was going to happen is you had two people, cheesebro and Sidney Powell, who requested speedy trial. They were going to be tried first. They were going to give Donald Trump a dress rehearsal. They were going to expose the state's arguments. It was to Donald Trump's benefit. But now they're out of the way. So not only does Donald Trump not get to see an advanced copy of the prosecution. He also could be tried before the election. Had the others been tried first, it would have pushed his case beyond the election. But now there's no one to wait for. That's incredible and something that we have to remember with, you know, as we juggled for indictments. With all of that said, you consider his life over the next year as he's running for president. Made the point, Hey, I wish I could be in Iowa, but I'm here in court on some days. That might actually be true. And his campaign will need him to be in certain places. How much flexibility will he have to actually run for president while he's managing all these That's a really good question because we don't know the schedule yet. I do believe the case that will happen before the election is the case in DC that we've been discussing Judge Chuck, and she's not fooling around, and that case from Jack Smith is built for speed. There are no other co defendants. There are unindicted ones, but not indicted ones. There are only four counts against Trump. Because Jack Smith wants that to happen before the election, and I think it will so can he campaign fully while being put on trial? I don't know, but I don't think. I'm not certain that the other cases will happen before the election. I think because of the plea deals now, it's a better chance the Fulton County one happens before the election. But I think the strongest case against Trump is the one in my neck of the woods good Documents case. They got them dead to rights there. But you got Judge Cannon, who's not quite Judge Chuckan. She's new, and she is slow walking this thing. And I think that case is going to get pushed beyond the election. And if we're saying then beyond the election, he very well could be president at that time, right, So how would that? Does that mean that this case just never gets tried? To feel like that's where we get into really murky waters? Are you now having a sitting president of the United States on trial? Oh? I don't think it's a murky firm at all. I think that's his only defense, that he has no defense to the document's case they got him. His only defense is become president and then order his Department of Justice to drop the case. That's what he'll do, and the case goes bye bye. The Trigckier one is what happens if he's convicted in Atlanta or in New York, which also could happen for the election itself. In the state case, he can't pardon himself. You know what will happen? So if becomes president and he's convicted or they keep trying to prosecute him, he'll say, Okay, New York, Okay, Georgia, I'm surrounded by my secret service here in the Oval Office. Come and get me. Yeah, who will be a constution crisis to say that the reality continues? Is it wrong? I'm admiring the lapel pin, the badge. I don't know if people can see that, probably not on YouTube. Is it wrong that I want one of those? Does that make me a herschel walker? Is that? Is that like a state attorney's How do you get that? You can't get this in a costume store. You've got to get elected state attorney at one of these days. That's so cool. Now here's the here's the insider tip there. We exchange them with each other. So this is actually someone else's tell me it's funny, Willis's. This is Tim Cruz from Massachusetts looking at it. Hey, my friend, no kidding, Republican to Massachusetts. I love that. Dave Ehrenberg, what a treat to have you in Washington. Get home safe, good luck here in the Capitol. I'm Joe Matthew with Kayley Lines. This is Bloomberg. You're listening to the Bloomberg Sound on podcast. Catch the program live weekdays at one Eastern on Bloomberg Radio, Tune in alf Bloomberg dot Com, and the Bloomberg Business App. You can also listen live on Amazon Alexa from our flagship New York station, Just say Alexa play Bloomberg eleven thirty. As we head for Bloomberg BusinessWeek, we want to bring you an important conversation with Paul Beckett. You might have heard him a couple of months ago. Join us on Bloomberg as the bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal here in Washington, DC, and Kayley. As I said earlier, it's not too often that you see Bloomberg and the WSJ making news together here. But it's important because he's not actually the bureau chief, at least not at the moment in Washington. He's become assistant editor of the journal dedicated the efforts to secure Evan Gershkovic's release. And it's Evan's birthday, ye thirty two years old, his two hundred and eleventh day of incarceration, as I read on the Wall Street Journal. And it's always an honor to bring Paul back on the air. It's good to see you, and thanks for coming across town to say hello to us. If you're with us on YouTube, see Paul's pin that says free Evan that I suspect you're wearing everywhere right now. And I just wonder if you could give us an update on his situation, what you're hearing from him when the last time he spoke, thank you so much. He is in decent shape, but in decent shape in a Russian prison where he's been for two hundred and eleven days. As you mentioned, he spends a great deal of that time in isolation. He's given one hour in the prison yard each day. He's working very hard to keep himself in shape, both mentally and physically. But we really just see this stretching on far too long, and we hope everything can be done to bring him home. Yeah, what's his degree of optimism and your degree of optimism? That his incarceration there is going to end anytime soon. This will end with the negotiation between the US government and the Russian government, So we would just like to see more action taken. At the moment, his pre trial attention will last until November thirtieth. They have twelve months to keep extending that detention, so that would put it into the spring of next year. But it's so opate. We don't even really know when you'll go to trial and what happens after that, so it's very murky, and that's the dispariting part. So is this a diplomatic solution, a prisoner swap, or is it actually infect a legal resolution that you're hoping for. One of the ways it will happen, and probably the most likely, given what's happened in the past, is through a prisoner swap. He has been accused of very serious espionized charges, which we of course will say to the end of the earth are completely false, but he will probably go into the Russian statement. So far, I have to go through that trial before the meaningful negotiations can take place. We hope to circuit that process, but in the mists ahead, that's about all we can see so you suggested you would like to see the US doing more here to push this What kind of conversations are you having with the Biden administration with those in government who may be able to help push this case. How committed do they seem to Evans? Cause? President Biden met with Evans family at the Whites correspond Association dinner and made a promise there to bring Evan home. So that's something that they have been relying on that we have been relying on for action. We can't see everything obviously that the government is doing. The public statements have been encouraging that this is a top priority, but we just want to make sure that it remains there. Boy, can you describe the conditions that he's in there? We spoke last time about the facility that he was staying and is he still there? Is he around other people or is he isolated? He's in the the forte of a prison Maxicmum Security Security Services prison in Moscow. We think he's in okay shape. We have lawyers that go in to see him once a week. He's had a few visits from the US ambassador to Moscow. So from what we can tell, it is he's reading he's meditating, he's exercising when he can, but it's a lot of work in the circumstances are awful. I'm sure is there anything that the journal is doing as well? For those journalists who are not currently incarcerated in Russia but still have to do the kind of work that Evan was doing and that he is now being essentially punished for. What do you do to make sure that others don't end up in the position he is currently in. Well, we are actually trying to be helpful in a position of another reporter who is in a similar circumstance. Alsu Kumasheva from Free Europe Radio Liberty was detained in Russia recently. So the extent that we can our experience can be helpful to them, then of course I'm more than happy to engage on that. I think overall, what you're seeing is a real stifling of what little free press or independent press there was in Russia. So so many reporters now have to cover Russia from outside, from Warsaw, from Berlin, from Dubai, from wherever they can, and it's just not the same. We're spending time with Paul Beckett from the Wall Street journal who is working to secure Evan Gershkovich's release as people consider what he's going through right now, and more broadly, what journalists are facing on a daily basis. Here we've got journalists in very dangerous places and it could get a lot more dangerous, for instance, in the Middle East. Does it change policies at the journal and the way that you look at deploying reporters around the world. We've always, as I'm shore Bloomberg, has put the safety of our reporters first absolutely. In spite of having very strict protocols, bad things will happen, and to some degree is the nature of the business. You do see a increase in violence towards harassment of and targeting of journalists around the world. We've seen it recently in the Middle East with sim Abdallah, the writers Yes reporter in Lebanon who is monitoring a live feed and he was killed and several other reporters were injured when that location was hit by a missile. So it is very dangerous days for reporters out there, and I think sometimes press can be an easy punching bag. I think it's a moment to reflect on how many people do extraordinary things to bring us. A news producer, Matt reminds us Kayley thirty four journalists killed in a line of duty this year. So far this calendar year, five hundred and ten journalists are detained as we speak, and Evan, of course, is one of them. Obviously, I know communication reaching him in a communicative way is probably immensely difficult. But if you had one message for him on what is again his thirty second birthday, could you share that for us. We're doing everything we can to make sure he doesn't spend his thirty third birthday in jail. How often, if at all, does the journal does his employer get to speak with him or is it through his lawyers on that weekly basis that you referenced, that's the chief point of contact. We have letters going in now. His family write some letters, his colleagues write him letters, and in those letters they try and fill him in on what he's missing the world. I think that's the messages that he wants to hear. He is a huge arsenal FC fan. He wants to hear they're doing. His sister sends him celebrity gossip to keep him up to speed. Anything that will boy, his spirits during such difficult time and his strength there is an inspiration to all of us doing well. I want you to know how much we respect the role that you've taken on there. You were the Washington Bureau chief, which is a very proud position, and the fact that you're doing this full time to secure his release is honorable and we thank you for what you're doing. There's not a lot that we can do here, I think, Kaylee. Other thing keep talking about this and keep reporting on it, and Paul, that's the pledge that we'll make to you, So stay in touch with us. Greatly appreciate, great, Thank you by so much. Thank you for the all Beckett from the Wall Street Journal with us here on an important conversation on the thirty second birthday of Evan Gershkovich, Joe Matthew and Washington along with Kaylee Lines. Thank you so much for spending time with us on the radio, on the satellite, and on YouTube. We certainly learn a lot today, as always, Kaylee, and we'll be back with one more of these. Tell me it's real. Tomorrow is Friday home stretch check on a working weekend. Right, We've got a speaker. We got some things worked well, don't Chinxit now? Fuh fair enough with Kaylee, I'm joke. Thanks for listening to the sound on podcast. Make sure to subscribe if you haven't already, at Apple, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts, and you can find us live every weekday from Washington, DC at one pm Eastern Time at Bloomberg dot com 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Have voters, politicos, analysts, and the media focused before with such intensity on a presidential race in the US more than a year before the actual vote? Perhaps. But I'm willing to say: Probably not. The reasons why this race is so magnetic are overt. Trump and Trumpism are in the air. Democracy is on the table. Pivotal policy issues are in play: reproductive rights, immigration, jobs and the economy, health care, public health and public safety, education, national security, the rule of law, and the funding and future shape of the federal government. Social media chews on all of this 24-7. Information – and disinformation – is ubiquitous. Partisanship is at a boiling point and Democrats and Republicans are maneuvering for position. Peggy Collins is the Washington bureau chief of Bloomberg News and a veteran national and local news reporter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode I'm chatting with Peggy Collins about focused preparation, embracing meaning, and finding inspiration as strategies for shifting from idea to action. We share personal approaches to making progress as well as how we support our members as they reduce overwhelm and get projects finished. Visit simplescrapper.com/syw230 for the full show notes.✨ Get free access to the SPARKED workshop and start scrapbooking consistently at simplescrapper.com/sparked.

What if we started looking at organization as a collection of habits and routines, instead of as a destination?March and April at Simple Scrapper are all about using, decluttering, and organizing your stash of supplies with more thoughtfulness and intention. I'm joined on this episode by Peggy Collins and Amy Zwart, two of my staff members, to venture behind the scenes of the community as 2023 really gets underway.Visit simplescrapper.com/syw209 for the full show notes.

Season 13, Ep 17: With the second season of The Test documentary out in the world, Adrian Brown joins the show for a second time to talk through the differences and complexities of repeating the dose while keeping the recipe fresh. Also this week, Kohli's ton run continues, India's Test squad is out, Australia's women play Football Manager against Pakistan, the Women's Under-19s World Cup is underway with Pakistan front and centre, and Peggy Collins has a middle name. Your Nerd Pledge number for this week: 4.89 - Edward Greggs Join the Lord's Taverners mailing list at bit.ly/tavssignup Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peggy Collins works with me at Simple Scrapper to plan programs for our community and this is the time of year when things really get interesting! In this episode we're catching up with our personal adventures and welcoming in our new theme of Planning for November and December. Our conversation covers The Finishing Project, Peggy's wedding date, and in the best news of all... the return of the Planning Party.  See the full show notes for this episode at simplescrapper.com/syw193. ♥ Love the podcast? Join our creative community today. 

Your favorite chatty conversations have returned! In these episodes I'll be joined by a member of our team to share life updates, current creative pursuits, and what's new at Simple Scrapper. This week I'm chatting with Peggy Collins, a lifetime member who has taken on the role of Program Assistant. Together we're working on creating and implementing plans for our members, alongside consistently investing time towards our goals. See the full show notes for this episode at simplescrapper.com/syw177. ♥ Love the podcast? Join our creative community today. 

Peggy Collins is a leader and role model at Simple Scrapper, leaning on close-knit community, regularly accountability, and all the tricks she's gathered over time to be more consistent with scrapbooking. This conversation is full of sage wisdom, helpful tips, and tons of resources for your own journey to cultivate more consistency in 2022. See the full show notes for this episode at simplescrapper.com/syw156. ♥ Love the podcast? Join our creative community today. 

An interview with Katherine Battersby, Peggy Collins, and Christine Tripp. Chris has illustrated more than 50 children's books for educational publishers; Peggy has illustrated over a dozen books and she's the author-illustrator of several. Katherine Battersby has illustrated 12 books, 7 of which she authored herself. Hear about their delight in touching young readers' hearts, their early days of drawing and writing stories, and their disciplined ways of carving out time for their heavy workloads. 20 minutes; all ages.   A full transcript is available at CabinTales.ca.   Show Notes [0:00] Intro [1:40] Interview with Katherine Battersby, Peggy Collins, and Christine Tripp CA: Did all of you start drawing when you were young? CT: I did, yeah. Mostly I stayed in my room and I just drew pictures for myself. That was probably as long as I can remember. Definitely five and six years old. …I was not very academically inclined. But the teachers always enjoyed my drawings….   [2:45] CA: And what about you, Peggy? Did you start as a child? PC: Yes. I wrote and illustrated my first book in grade one and told my teacher that this was what I was going to do…. You listen to guidance counselors briefly and they're like, ‘Yeah, you're good at science; you should do something meaningful with your life.' And then, then you realize, No, this is better. …   [3:30] CA: And Katherine, did you start young as well? KB: Yeah, I sure did. … So as soon as I could hold a pencil I was creating stories. … I was sort of creating funny little cut-outs and things that you could flip through or that you could unfold or they were always kind of interactive and upside down. Yeah, I've always been obsessed with words and images and the way they work together…   [4:30] CA: Is there someone who mind taking thirty seconds to say the process of illustrating a picture book? PC: Sure. I thumbnail like crazy … I start really small and I think about my composition and my pacing and what … absolutely needs to go on the page. And then my art director can't understand what those are usually. And so then I have to develop them a little bit further so I work a little bit bigger. … I do most of my thumbs on paper, because I can do them while I'm watching TV with my kids. And then I move into digital. CA: Okay. So you storyboard while watching TV? PC: Yes. … So right now, with the three books I'm working on, the series that's almost always on is Sons of Anarchy…   [5:35] CA: And do you have a regular practice? KB: Yes I do. I am very diligent with keeping working hours. …Creative work can really sneak into everything … So I have gotten very very strict with myself in keeping business hours… Often my most creative time is in the morning because that's where my energy is. …. I often put Mondays aside-ish for business-type things like invoicing and emails … And then I always try to finish up half an hour before the family gets home. …   [7:45] CA: And Chris, I know you're not working on a book right now but when you are working on a book, do you have a certain practice? CT: I did more early on. I would get up and … get dressed and do even make-up to almost psych yourself into thinking you're going to work. … And then I would take breaks just like as if I were on a job, and then come back and work, take lunch, back to work. Then there were times when I would end up working all night …But mostly I would not work weekends … I need to be alone. …But you definitely have to be disciplined… It just doesn't work otherwise.   [9:30] CA: And Peggy, you juggle teaching and your books. So how do you find a practice, like simply hours, timewise? PC: I struggle with it. … I teach at two different colleges. … The week that my kids are not here I work, I work a lot. And I try and manage all of the things when they're not around so that when they are here, I am full-on Mom. .... A lot of times I'll get up at 5:00 a.m. and do my work early. And then I have two shifts for driving in the morning… I teach from 9 until 3:00 every day. And then I go back and pick everyone up. And then it starts all over again. So in terms of balance, I don't think I have it. … I am working on three big projects. … all of these things were delayed, so I am struggling. … But it'll happen. It'll get done.   [11:50] CA: What is the best thing about doing this? Like what do you love most about doing this? It's a lot of work. Why do you do it? PC: …I get to draw, all the time, whether I like it or not. In the days that are the worst, where I feel like I'm really struggling, I remember the days where I cleaned toilets for the summer… and I thank everything that I'm not wiping someone's bum or something as a job. … my worst day is when I can't work out a character or I might not have enough time to finish something. CA: That is the message: Being an artist is better than wiping someone's bum.   [12:50] CA: What's the best thing about being an illustrator, Chris? CT: …I've just always drawn and I can't imagine doing anything else. … I just love to draw. And thankfully I'm good at it. …. It's just I love to draw so I couldn't do anything else. That's all I could do….   [13:45] CA: And what about you, Katherine? What's the best thing about it? KC: …Before I put pen to paper is when an idea, it could be anything and it could be everything. And it feels like it might be the best, most exciting thing I've stumbled across yet. So that brings me the most joy. … And then the complete opposite end of the spectrum, when the book is done and… it's out in the world and I'm no longer terrified because it's been out for a while, and then I start hearing from kids. And I hear little ways that my book has made a difference in little individuals' lives. And that, oh, it really makes me emotional….   [15:35] CT: I had that happen once and I know what you're feeling. A woman called me… about the first trade book I did….Her daughters had read it and they said to her, “That girl looks like me.” And the mother said it was the first time that her children… had ever seen a book with a black parent, a white parent, and biracial children. She just wanted to thank me. … But it just never dawned on me when I was doing it that I was doing anything other than drawing. …   [16:50] PC: It is something. …It's the kids, right? … kids go to the library and they pick out books, and when they pick out your books to bring home, that's something pretty special. …The best part about it is that connection. I got to go to Saint Lucia for a book festival, and there were like 2000 kids chanting the title of a book I had illustrated. And I just like bawled, like the whole time. … Those are those epic moments that keep you going when you think you're done for….   [18:30] CA: All right. It's really nice to talk to you all. KB: Bye. CT: Bye. PC: Bye.   [19:25] Peggy Collins introduces herself PC: My name is Peggy Collins. I am an author and illustrator of books for kids. I'm also a teacher, learning to teach on the online format, which has been interesting. I have two kids. They're all big now, 15 and 10. And I had a bit of a hiatus in my career, and things are starting to pick up again finally, so the direction is a good one. And I'm just sending off a new contract for a new book today. So that's exciting. Yeah.   [20:05] Christine Tripp introduces herself My name is Christine Tripp. I'm an illustrator. And I have 4 kids who are not kids -- they're all going to be 40. It's just insane. And I'm not working on anything right now. This summer has been nice and calm and slow. But it's a good thing because in January I broke my shoulder, so I wouldn't have been able to do anything anyway. Every time I moved it hurt. So it was just as well that I'm not too busy. I'm just sitting in here with my Covid, with my masks, and learning a whole new life.   [20:45] Katherine Battersby introduces herself My name is Katherine Battersby. And I am an author and an illustrator, primarily of picture books. I have all sorts of different picture books coming out and a bunch more coming out still. I've had one just released called Perfect Pigeons and another one coming up called Trouble, and I've got my first graphic novel series coming out end of next year called Cranky Chicken, which has been a blast to work on. If you can tell from my accent, I'm not originally from here. I'm half British, half Australian. I grew up by the beach in Australia. And I now live here in Ottawa, with my husband who is a poet and my little girl who is obsessed with books. And she's a lot of fun. And that's me.   [21:30] Find out more about Katherine Battersby, Peggy Collins, and Christine Tripp You can hear more creative writing and illustrating advice from Katherine Battersby, Peggy Collins, and Christine Tripp on Cabin Tales Special Episode X, “Picture a Story,” featuring Interviews with 5 illustrators and author-illustrators. You can find out more about Christine Tripp on her public profile on the website of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, at scbwi.org. You can find out more about Peggy Collins and her books from her website at PeggysIllustration.com. And you can find out more about Katherine Battersby and her books from her website at KatherineBattersby.com.   [22:40] Thanks and coming up on the podcast I'll be back next week with leftovers from my interview with the author-illustrator Chris Jones, creator of comic books and graphic novels and illustrator of more than 20 books for young readers. Thanks for listening. Credits Music on the podcast is from “Stories of the Old Mansion” by Akashic Records, provided by Jamendo (Standard license for online use). Host: Catherine Austen writes books for children, short stories for adults, and reports for corporate clients. Visit her at www.catherineausten.com. Guest Authors:       Katherine Battersby is the critically acclaimed author and illustrator of twelve picture books, including Perfect Pigeons and the popular Squish Rabbit series. Her books have received glowing reviews in The New York Times, starred Kirkus reviews, and have been named CBC Children's Choice books. Her debut graphic novel series, Cranky Chicken, was published in 2021. She is regularly booked to speak in schools, libraries and at festivals and she is a passionate advocate for literacy and the arts. Katherine currently divides her time between Brisbane, Australia, and Ottawa, Canada, with her husband, daughter, and their mischievous puppy. Find her online at www.KatherineBattersby.com, on Twitter @KathBatt, on Facebook at @KatherineBattersbyAuthor, on Instagram  @katherinebattersby/.       Peggy Collins is a mother, a storyteller, an artist, a teacher, and a lover of books, technology, and learning. She lives in Ontario, where she teaches concept art and character design development. She is the illustrator and author-illustrator of more than a dozen picture books. Find her online at www.PeggysIllustration.com, on Twitter @peggysbooks, on Facebook @ thelittlesproject, on Instagram @peggysillustration.         Christine Tripp has worked in animation, magazine and newspaper Illustration, gag cartooning, and comic strips, but eventually she found her real passion… illustrating children's books. Over the past 20 years, she has illustrated over 50 books for publishers such as Scholastic USA, Scholastic Canada, and Pearson Canada. Chris considers herself fortunate to have a career that allows her to do exactly what she has loved to do since she was a child: draw! She lives in Stittsville, Ontario, with her husband and their dogs, Kevin and Bob. Their 4 children and 9 grandchildren are her greatest source of pride and joy.  

An interview with Marty Chan, playwright and award-winning author of 18 books for young readers. Hear about his intricate revision process, his deep appreciation of young readers and writers, and his delight in making things hard for his characters. 25 minutes, all ages.   A full transcript is available at CabinTales.ca   Show Notes [0:00] Intro [1:10] Interview with Marty Chan CA: Are you a planner? Do you know the endings of your stories, or some of the major plot points, before you begin? MC: I'm a bit of both. …If it's a mystery, I definitely need to sit down and plan everything out because I need to know where the plot twists are, I need to know the solution so that I can write toward it. But if I'm doing something that's more of a character exploration, then I feel like I can just sort of jump in and improvise and discover the story as I'm writing. So … it really depends on the story.   [2:00] CA: Do you have any advice to young readers who might be stuck in the middle of a story? MC: That's the classic problem…And it leads to what they often call writer's block. And I always think that where you notice the problem is not where the problem started. It probably started a few scenes or a few pages earlier, where you made a decision that pushed your character into the problem that they're in now or the dead end that they've reached. … Go back a few pages, go back a few scenes, and then make a different decision for your character and see what that does to the story. It might push you to another dead end, but at least it'll start to inform you about what the character can do and who they are. …   [4:00] CA: Do you have a favorite first line? MC: Oh, one of my personal favorite first lines from my work is from the very first book I wrote, The Mystery of the Frozen Brains. And the opening line was: I hated secrets. …The opening line instantly raises the question of who hates secrets or how bad is the secret that this main character hates it?   [4:35] CA: Do you tend to write in first person? MC: Generally I like writing in first person for younger readers. … My middle grade fiction is often first person. …My steampunk fantasy series The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles, that goes more into third person because I have to cover a lot of different settings and subplots. So having third person gives me the latitude or the ability to jump from one to another.   [5:15] CA: And have you ever opened with dialogue? MC: … I know that when I work with kids and their writing, their natural instinct is to start with dialogue …. Just remember that if you don't identify or describe the people who are speaking, it's just a jumble of words flying at the reader. …So, if you start with dialogue, always remember you've got to give an anchor to the readers so they kind of know where we are, where we're situated, and who's talking and why we should care. That is when revision comes in handy …   [6:30] CA: …. Do you tend to edit yourself as you draft? Or do you sort of get it all out on the page and then go back and revise? MC: When I started writing, I was constantly going back to the beginning… And then I discovered that because I focused so much on second guessing myself and reshaping those opening few paragraphs, then at a certain point I started to lose the spark for the rest of the story. … Once I started seeing the pile of stories that I never finished, I started thinking, “Well maybe the approach is wrong for me.” … So what I often do is I will just work all the way through to the end of the first draft before I'll even start second guessing what's happening, because I just want the joy of discovery for myself to get to the end of the first draft. What that means, though, is that I spend more time revising than I will spend writing a first draft. …   [9:00] CA: And when did you start writing? Did you write as a kid? I started writing when I was in high school. … I did a lot of reading because I spent a lot of time hiding in the library from bullies. And by reading, like a lot of Hardy Boys novels, I started getting inspired to come up with stories. And oftentimes what I would do is I'd daydream. …. So I would daydream all the time, come up with different scenarios, but I never wrote anything down until my high school language arts teacher gave us a homework assignment. …. He said, “I want you to imagine you've won the lottery and you have $1,000,000 and you can spend that money on anything you want. All I want you to do is write down and describe how you use your lottery winnings to redecorate your bedroom.” I was a lazy teenager so my idea of a dream bedroom was to have a bed I never had to get out of to do all the things I wanted to do. So I said I would use all the money to put my bed on an elevator. … He said, “Marty, you have a great imagination. Have you thought about becoming a writer?” And it was at that moment that I was inspired to write... Because of him, I am the writer that I am today….   [12:30] CA: You give workshops to kids? Do you ever read kids' writings? MC: I have given feedback. I was the writer in residence at the Edmonton Public Library, and part of my job was to critique and give feedback to anyone who submitted their work to me. … Being a kids' author, that magical moment is when you can see a kid's eyes light up and they see the possibility that they could become an author just like me. It makes all the work I do worthwhile.   [13:35] CA: Do you have any favorite scary stories or scary movies? … MC: I am a huge zombie fan. When I was a teenager, a group of my friends went to a drive in. … And there was a dusk to dawn which included George A Romero's Dawn of the Dead…. I loved it and I've been a zombie fan ever since. … And I think it kind of reflects in the writing that I do. My latest book is called Haunted Hospital. … I feel like my love of scary stories has given me the inspiration to write scary stories.   [14:50] CA: And what scared you as a kid? MC: My mom. … I remember I had to deliver flyers to different houses…And there was a German shepherd in the yard. … And I froze as that dog came running right up to me. And thankfully she was happy to see me. …But ever since then I have been scared of big dogs, and it's only been recently that I've been sort of a little calmer about big dogs. CA: And have you ever put that in one of your stories? MC: …If you read the Marty Chan Mystery series, anything that you see in there that you wonder, “Did that actually happen to Marty Chan?” 7 times out of 10 the answer is yes.   [15:55] CA: So you do base some stories on your own childhood? MC: Yes. I think if you're a writer and an observer of the world, you can't help but put things from your own life into the stories. … Probably the most successful of all the books I've written is something called the Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul. … that is the one that is the most personal in terms of the elements in the story were very much based on experiences that I had as a kid. And to me it taught me how, when you come up with story ideas, the first reader that you have to engage or entertain is yourself. … I thought, “I'm the only Chinese kid in town who actually understands what that experience is like,” but I would capture things that were universal for anybody. The first chapter is about a clothes shopping nightmare … everyone has been in that situation where they've been embarrassed by a parent or guardian or family member while they're shopping for clothes. …   [1810] CA: You're sort of tormenting your character. You could solve their problems earlier but you're going to make them suffer for a while. How do you feel about that? MC: Well, I love it. Because when we're reading, we want to cheer for the character, and if everything is too easy for the character then why do we brought bother reading? …. If they see that the hero wins too easily, they wonder why bother going on the journey in the first place.   [19:20] CA: Do you have any favorite settings from fiction? MC: In general, my favorite setting is anything in New York. … The great thing to do is if you love a setting, a real setting, before you go visit that setting or that city, just read a whole bunch of books or watch movies that are set in that city, and then go through that city and try to find those landmarks. Because it's one of the most amazing things that you can do as a reader is to see how the writers have captured the sense of a place. …   [20:05] CA: Nice. And you do any setting exercises? … MC: … I do a lot of out-scenes. Like in the case of the Ehrich Weisz Chronicles, that's set in New York. …I found maps of the time period that I was writing about. … In the 1890s, before the subway was built, the trains were on elevated rails. … I actually flew to New York and … walked the route that the characters were to going to go through in that first book, just to get a sense of the place and what it would feel like. And it made it much more real in my mind…   [21:20] CA: Is there somewhere where you get your best ideas…? MC: Just from research. I love reading books… At a certain point it's like the confluence of several different things that I've heard and researched that will just come together one day. It literally is like a lightbulb … I can't explain how that happens. All I can say is that if you want to be a writer … open yourself up to the world and just pay attention to everything that goes on around you. …Fill your tank up as much as possible because you never know when that one thing you learn about will be the spark that gives you the great idea.   [22:35] CA: That's probably a great note to end it on. Thank you very much for doing this… MC: Great to meet you too. Take care. …   [22:40] Marty Chan introduces himself MC: My name is Marty Chan. I am a kids' author and playwright. I have a very short attention span, so if you take a look at my work, you'll realize that I hop around a lot. So I've worked in theatre, television, radio, kids fiction, magazine writing. One of the things I love about writing is that it gives me the opportunity to create worlds and it also opens a door to doing pretty well anything. The great thing about being a writer is that you're only limited by your imagination, and you know how big your imagination can be. So if you can dream it, you can make it real.   [23:30] Find out more about Marty Chan You can hear more creative writing advice from Marty Chan on Cabin Tales Episode 5.5, “Author Interviews about Tension,” on Episode 7, “Just Get it Over With,” about endings; and on Episode 8, “The Never-ending Story,” about revision. You can find out more about Marty Chan and his books from his website at MartyChan.com.   [24:30] Thanks and coming up on the podcast I'll be back next week with leftovers from my group interview with picture book illustrators and author-illustrators Katherine Battersby, Peggy Collins, and Christine Tripp. Thanks for listening. Credits Music on the podcast is from “Stories of the Old Mansion” by Akashic Records, provided by Jamendo (Standard license for online use). Host: Catherine Austen writes books for children, short stories for adults, and reports for corporate clients. Visit her at www.catherineausten.com. Guest Author: Marty Chan writes books for kids, plays for adults, and tweets for fun. He's best known for Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul, which won the 2007 Diamond Willow Award. His newest book, Haunted Hospital, launched in Fall 2020. He works and lives in Edmonton with his wife Michelle and their cat Buddy. Find him online at MartyChan.com.  

Interviews with five Canadian illustrators about creating narratives in words and pictures. Featuring guest author-illustrators Peggy Collins, Katherine Battersby, Farida Zaman, Christine Tripp, and Chris Jones. All ages. A full transcript of this episode is available at CabinTales.ca.   Show Notes: [0:00] Intro [2:15] Commentary on how picture books are made   Interviews about creating alone vs with another writer [5:15] Chris Jones on rewarding collaborations [7:40] Peggy Collins on responsibility [9:20] Katherine Battersby on unexpected freedom [11:45] Christine Tripp on having fun [13:10] Farida Zaman on having control   [15:00] Developing characters in images [16:10] Peggy Collins loves designing characters [17:45] Chris Jones develops his characters in action [19:45] Christine Tripp has her characters in her head [21:20] Farida Zaman steps inside her characters [22:30] Katherine Battersby traps characters on paper   [24:10] Commentary on the Fear of Drawing     [27:40] Interviews about traditional and digital art. [28:20] Christine Tripp likes the safety of digital art [29:20] Farida Zaman misses her pencils [30:40] Katherine Battersby finds freedom in digital imagery [32:25] Peggy Collins is happier with her tech [34:15] Chris Jones refines his sketches digitally   [36:20] Illustrators' advice to young writers and artists [36:30] Katherine Battersby: Read, play, be yourself [37:50] Peggy Collins: Your stories matter [38:50] Farida Zaman: Everyone has a story [40:10] Christine Tripp: Don't be in a rush [41:20] Chris Jones: Don't get discouraged   [42:25] Story prompt: Picture a Halloween tale   [43:40] Thanks and coming up on the podcast Next week it's Episode XX: “The Halloween Special,” featuring spooky stories and weird tales from student writers, with no interviews at all. Thanks for listening.   Music on the podcast is from “Stories of the Old Mansion” by Akashic Records, provided by Jamendo (Standard license for online use).  Host: Catherine Austen writes books for children, short stories for adults, and reports for corporate clients. Visit her at www.catherineausten.com. Art: The B&W image for this episode is from a wood engraving by Émile Bayard from Le général Dourakine, written by Sophie comtesse de Ségur, 1882. Guest Authors:       Katherine Battersby is the critically acclaimed author and illustrator of ten picture books, including Perfect Pigeons and the popular Squish Rabbit series. Her books have received glowing reviews in The New York Times, starred Kirkus reviews, and have been named CBC Children's Choice books. Her debut graphic novel series, Cranky Chicken, will be published in 2021. She is regularly booked to speak in schools, libraries and at festivals and she is a passionate advocate for literacy and the arts. Katherine currently divides her time between Brisbane, Australia, and Ottawa, Canada, with her husband, daughter, and their mischievous puppy. Find her online at www.KatherineBattersby.com, on Twitter @KathBatt, on Facebook at @KatherineBattersbyAuthor, on Instagram  @katherinebattersby/.       Peggy Collins is a mother, a storyteller, an artist, a teacher, and a lover of books, technology, and learning. She lives in Ontario, where she teaches concept art and character design development. She is the illustrator and author-illustrator of more than a dozen picture books. Find her online at www.PeggysIllustration.com, on Twitter @peggysbooks, on Facebook @ thelittlesproject, on Instagram @peggysillustration.         Chris Jones is an illustrator with a passion for visual storytelling. He illustrates for picture books, graphic novels, magazines and educational materials. Chris has illustrated over 20 books for young readers, including Scholastic's Take Me Out to The Ice Rink, and This is The Rink Where Jack Plays. When not illustrating for clients, Chris spends his time writing and illustrating his own comic and picture book projects. Find Chris online at: www.mrjonesey.com; Instagram @mrjonesey; Twitter @mrJonesey         Christine Tripp has worked in animation, magazine and newspaper Illustration, gag cartooning, and comic strips, but eventually she found her real passion… illustrating children's books. Over the past 20 years, she has illustrated over 50 books for publishers such as Scholastic USA, Scholastic Canada, and Pearson Canada. Chris considers herself fortunate to have a career that allows her to do exactly what she has loved to do since she was a child: draw! She lives in Stittsville, Ontario, with her husband and their dogs, Kevin and Bob. Their 4 children and 9 grandchildren are her greatest source of pride and joy.         Farida Zaman is a Toronto-based illustrator, author, and educator known for her upbeat, sophisticated, and whimsical style. She has worked with clients including the Latin Grammy Awards, The New York Times, UNICEF, London Underground, Toronto Transit Commission and many more. Farida has illustrated more than a dozen picture books. Her first authored and illustrated picture book – I Want to Be: A Gutsy Girl's ABC – was published in 2020. She is currently an instructor at Toronto's Avenue Road Art School, where she runs art workshops and illustration classes for adults and children. Find her online at www.FaridaZaman.com, on Twitter @fzamanart, and on Instagram @fzamanart.

Interviews with Canadian children's and YA authors on the subject of tension and how to make a reader turn the page. With guest authors Kate Inglis, Lisa Dalrymple, David McArthur, Jeff Szpirglas, and Marty Chan. Hosted by Catherine Austen. 40 minutes. All ages.  A full transcript of this episode is available at CabinTales.ca. Shownotes: [0:00] Intro [1:15] Interviews on adding tension to fiction [2:10] Kate Inglis on showing characters [4:30] Jeff Szpirglas on creating a tense atmosphere [6:50] Lisa Dalrymple on asking your character questions [8:50] David McArthur on planting clues [10:55] Marty Chan on leaving answers hanging   [13:10] Commentary on tension as a balancing act Think of a story as a character facing a problem that's in the way of what they want. Envision a scale with the character on one side and the problem on the other. Increase tension by adding to the weight of the problem or reducing the weight of the character. Isolate or burden the protagonist. Move the danger closer in time or space.   [16:20] Interviews on drafting and revising for tension [16:45] Marty Chan on revising multiple times [19:10] Jeff Szpirglas on drafting quickly [20:50] David McArthur on editing as he drafts [22:30] Kate Inglis on irresistible revision [25:15] Lisa Dalrymple on over-editing   [27:30] Interviews on plot twist dos and don'ts [28:20] David McArthur doesn't twist fully [29:45] Lisa Dalrymple sticks to the rules of a story [30:40] Jeff Szpirglas builds up the danger [32:35] Kate Inglis's favourite plot twists from television [34:25] Marty Chan's favourite plot twist from film   [36:15] Write your own tale Outline or draft a scene, then ask how you might enhance the tension.   [37:30] Thanks and coming up on the podcast Thanks to today's guests. Next week's episode, “Picture a Story,” will feature interviews with great Canadian illustrators – Katherine Battersby, Farida Zaman, Peggy Collins, Christine Tripp, and Chris Jones. Then on October 30th, I'll have a special Halloween episode of Cabin Tales featuring weird tales from student writers. (Submission guidelines on the website at https://CabinTales.ca.) Thanks for listening. Music on the podcast is from “Stories of the Old Mansion” by Akashic Records, provided by Jamendo (Standard license for online use).  Host: Catherine Austen writes books for children, short stories for adults, and reports for corporate clients. Visit her at www.catherineausten.com.   Guest Authors: Marty Chan writes books for kids, plays for adults, and tweets for fun. He's best known for Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul, which won the 2007 Diamond Willow Award. His newest book, Haunted Hospital, launched October 29th. He works and lives in Edmonton with his wife Michelle and their cat Buddy. Find him online at MartyChan.com, on Twitter @Marty_Chan; on YouTube MartyChanAuthor; on Instagram @MartyChanWriter; and on Facebook @MartyChanAuthor.   Lisa Dalrymple is a wandering, wondering, dabbling, babbling, addle-brained author and mind-muddled mum. She has written 11 books for young readers, including Fierce: Women who Shaped Canada, A Moose Goes A-Mummering and Skink on the Brink. Lisa has taught kindergarten in South Korea and Thailand, caught and eaten piranha in the Amazon jungle and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. She now lives in Fergus, Ontario with her husband and their 3 highly-energetic children. Find her online at lisadalrymple.com; on Facebook: @LisaDalrympleBooks; on Twitter: @DalrympleWrites; and on Instagram: @lisa_dalrymple.   Kate Inglis is an award-winning author for adults and children. She writes about pirates and giants and mermaids and all the ways we love each other. Kate's novels, non-fiction, and poetic picture books are infused with the salt, woodsmoke, and fresh air of the North Atlantic coast. Kate is also a photographer and a corporate writer. Find her online at www.kateinglis.com; on Instagram @kate_inglis, on Twitter @kate_inglis; and on Facebook @kateinglisbooks.   David McArthur is a graphic designer and creative writer based in Victoria, BC. He struggled with reading and writing as a child, and those struggles are part of the reason he created a series of books which give children confidence to read. The “What Does…” series started as a simple game that David played with his son as they were driving to daycare. Seeing the way his son joyfully reacted to the story was so wonderful that David turned the story into a book. The rest, as they say, is history! Find him online at www.akidsauthor.com.   Jeff Szpirglas is the author of over 20 books for young readers, both fiction and nonfiction, including entries for Scholastic's “Countdown To Danger” series and Orca's “Tales From Beyond the Brain.” He has co-authored two books about film soundtracks, and is a regular contributor to the award-winning horror magazine Rue Morgue. Jeff has worked at CTV and he was an editor at Chirp, chickaDEE, and Owl Magazines. These days, he spends his non-writing time as a full-time parent and full-time classroom teacher (and part-time werewolf). Visit him online at jeffszpirglas.com and find him on Twitter @jeffszpirglas or on Facebook.     

An introductory tour of the podcast, about the origin of the Cabin Tales stories, creative writing themes on fall episodes, upcoming guest authors; and a submission call for the Halloween Special Episode. 20 minutes. All ages.   A full transcript of this episode is available at CabinTales.ca. [1:15] What is Cabin Tales? Cabin Tales is a podcast with an unusual format—a mix of fiction, education, and interviews. It's really like having an author visit every week – only it's absolutely free. And I bring talented friends with me. You don't have to like spooky stories to enjoy this podcast. If you like books and author talks and encouragement to write your own tales, then this podcast is for you.   [1:50] The Origin of Cabin Tales Catherine Austen developed the Cabin Tales Podcast during COVID-19 to take the place of author visits in 2020. The stories in the podcast are from her draft novel, Cabin Tales, in which four young teens tell scary stories around a campfire (while their mothers disappear one by one).   [4:00] The Podcast Format Each episode of Cabin Tales focuses on one aspect of creative writing. Episode formats alternate thus: First is a full episode that opens with an original story, followed by excerpts from three books that exemplify the week's theme—one for adults, one for young adults, and one for children—and a final prompt, told as a story, that listeners are invited to finish. In between readings, you get writing tips, commentary, suggested exercises, and 3 author interviews. Then the next episode features interviews with five more guest authors talking about the same creative-writing subject. So you get two weeks on each creative writing theme. We'll alternate between these formats, “Telling Tales” and “Talking Tales,” all season.    [7:20] The Audience The Cabin Tales Podcast is for readers and writers of all levels of experience, but especially teen writers. The kids whose schools I won't be visiting this year. Stories told on the podcast are the sort that young people might tell around a campfire to spook their friends. Some are serious; some are silly; and some are a little scary. Consider them PG-13. For younger listeners, “fright-free” versions of episodes are available on the website at CabinTales.ca – all the good educational stuff with no scary bits.   [9:00] Where to Listen The Cabin Tales Podcast is available through iTunes, Google Podcast, Spotify, SoundCloud, Stitcher, TuneIn, I Heart Radio, Learning out Loud, and through its host, Podbean. (Those platforms stream the original episodes only. For the fright-free versions, go to CabinTales.ca.) To be notified by email of every new episode when it comes out, follow the CabinTales.ca blog or follow Catherine on Facebook. Or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or from any other streaming platform.   [10:20] The Interviews All episodes of Cabin Tales feature excerpts from interviews with great Canadian authors for young people. Guest authors featured in August were Caroline Pignat, Lori Weber, Tim Wynne-Jones, Karen Krossing, Jan Coates, Rachel Eugster, Amanda West Lewis, and Monique Polak. Guests featured in September include Philippa Dowding, Ishta Mercurio, Wendy MacKnight, Amelinda Berube, Robin Stevenson, Raquel Rivera, and Kari-Lynn Winters. Guests coming up in the fall include Cary Fagan, Don Cummer, Sarah Raughley, Kate Inglis, Farida Zaman, Katherine Battersby, Christine Tripp, Peggy Collins, and many more.  You'll hear little bits and pieces from all of these interviews this fall, and you can hear complete, edited interviews with each featured author in the winter, starting January 2021.   [11:35] The Excerpts The podcast follows guidelines of Fair Dealing with the brief excerpts of copyrighted material used to illustrate fine writing. Episode shownotes link to the sources for all of these books.   [12:30] Write your own Tale The Cabin Tales Podcast encourages listeners to write their own tales. Episodes include suggested writing activities, and each full episode ends with a story prompt that listeners are invited to finish. Some episodes also link to creative writing mini-lessons and templates that teachers can use straight out of the box.   [14:25] The Halloween Episode Submissions are being accepted for a special Halloween episode of Cabin Tales, which will feature just student stories. Original spooky stories of up to 2000 words. Send your story, along with a few words about yourself and when and why you wrote this story, in the body of an email to cabin(at)catherineausten(dot)com or use the form on the contact page at CabinTales.ca. Sadly, we pay you nothing but respect.    [16:45] The Cabin Tales Host, Catherine Austen I'm an author of short stories for adults, novels for children, and reports for corporate clients. I've won some awards. I've had stories published in great literary journals. I've given writing workshops at schools and libraries across Canada. I live in Gatineau, Quebec.   [17:25] The Music Music on the podcast is from “Stories of the Old Mansion” by Akashic Records, provided by Jamendo under Standard license for online use.   [17:50] What's coming up this season September 11: Episode 3, “Spooky Stories are all Around Us,” about getting ideas for stories. September 18th: Episode 3.5, “Author Interviews about Ideas.” Episodes 4 and 4.5 are about Plotting. Episodes 5 and 5.5 are about creating tension. October 23rd: “There's More than One Way to Tell a Story,” interviews with Canadian illustrators. October 30th, “Spooky Stories by Student Writers.” November and December episodes about Beginnings and Endings; Narrative Voice; and Revision A final December episode about the creative process and how to develop a writing practice. In January we'll begin a season of author interviews. (Monster-movie line: “I got a goddamned plan!”)   [19:35] Thanks for listening If you like the show, please link to it on your social media, and share it with your writer-friends and reader-friends and teacher-friends, and together we'll get it into the ears of young writers and say to them: Write your own tale. Here's how.  

Andrew Hollenhorst, Citi Chief U.S. Economist, thinks that there is some recognition in the bond market that global growth may be slow for a long time. Mij Rahman, Eurasia Group Managing Director of Europe, says the economic cycle in Europe is not robust due to broader concerns about trade disputes. Jordan Rochester, Nomura FX Strategist, says the ECB has few options left for inflation. Peggy Collins, Bloomberg News Managing Editor U.S. Economy, says Treasury Secretary Mnuchin has left the question of currency up in the air. And Paul Romer, Nobel Laureate & NYU Stern School of Business Professor of Economics, thinks we've been slow to react to some of the negative effects of new technology.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Andrew Hollenhorst, Citi Chief U.S. Economist, thinks that there is some recognition in the bond market that global growth may be slow for a long time. Mij Rahman, Eurasia Group Managing Director of Europe, says the economic cycle in Europe is not robust due to broader concerns about trade disputes. Jordan Rochester, Nomura FX Strategist, says the ECB has few options left for inflation. Peggy Collins, Bloomberg News Managing Editor U.S. Economy, says Treasury Secretary Mnuchin has left the question of currency up in the air. And Paul Romer, Nobel Laureate & NYU Stern School of Business Professor of Economics, thinks we've been slow to react to some of the negative effects of new technology. 

Bloomberg News International Economics & Policy Correspondent Michael Mckee checks in from the Jackson Hole Symposium and talks about his interview with Kansas City Fed President Esther George. Katherine Doherty, Bloomberg News High-Yield/Distressed Debt Reporter, explains how competition in the cutthroat grocery business is spoiling Onex Corp.’s 2016 purchase of Save-A-Lot Inc., with sales shrinking, leverage soaring and its debt sinking deep into distress. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Bloomberg News Projects & Investigations Reporter Lauren Etter talk about the Businessweek cover story on LaCroix, the early darling of fizzy water that is losing ground to big soda, as shareholders question its management.And we Drive to the Close with Omar Aguilar, CIO of Equities at Charles Schwab Investment Management. Hosts: Jason Kelly and Peggy Collins. Producer: Paul Brennan. 

Bloomberg News International Economics & Policy Correspondent Michael Mckee checks in from the Jackson Hole Symposium and talks about his interview with Kansas City Fed President Esther George. Katherine Doherty, Bloomberg News High-Yield/Distressed Debt Reporter, explains how competition in the cutthroat grocery business is spoiling Onex Corp.'s 2016 purchase of Save-A-Lot Inc., with sales shrinking, leverage soaring and its debt sinking deep into distress. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Bloomberg News Projects & Investigations Reporter Lauren Etter talk about the Businessweek cover story on LaCroix, the early darling of fizzy water that is losing ground to big soda, as shareholders question its management.And we Drive to the Close with Omar Aguilar, CIO of Equities at Charles Schwab Investment Management. Hosts: Jason Kelly and Peggy Collins. Producer: Paul Brennan.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Bloomberg News Senior Trade Reporter Shawn Donnan talks about the U.S. extending a limited set of exemptions that had protected rural networks and other U.S. customers from a ban on doing business with China’s Huawei Technologies for another 90 days. Tony Capuano, Marriott's Chief Global Development Officer, discusses growth in North America and Asia and launching new all-inclusive platform. Bloomberg New Economy Editorial Director Andy Browne explains how China may consider handling Hong Kong protests. Mark Bergen, Bloomberg News Technology Reporter, explains his Businessweek Magazine story on deepfakes. And We Drive to the Close with Margie Patel, Senior Portfolio Manager at Wells Fargo Asset Management.  Hosts: Jason Kelly and Peggy Collins.  Producer: Paul Brennan 

Bloomberg News Senior Trade Reporter Shawn Donnan talks about the U.S. extending a limited set of exemptions that had protected rural networks and other U.S. customers from a ban on doing business with China's Huawei Technologies for another 90 days. Tony Capuano, Marriott's Chief Global Development Officer, discusses growth in North America and Asia and launching new all-inclusive platform. Bloomberg New Economy Editorial Director Andy Browne explains how China may consider handling Hong Kong protests. Mark Bergen, Bloomberg News Technology Reporter, explains his Businessweek Magazine story on deepfakes. And We Drive to the Close with Margie Patel, Senior Portfolio Manager at Wells Fargo Asset Management.  Hosts: Jason Kelly and Peggy Collins.  Producer: Paul Brennan  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

EP 1522 Peggy Collins ties this message home very effectively about networking and offers easy to follow ways to improve your networking skills. ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a career and leadership coach who worked as a recruiter for more than 40 years. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 1500 episodes and “No BS Coaching Advice.” He is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council. Are you interested in 1:1 coaching, interview coaching, advice about networking more effectively, how to negotiate your offer or leadership coaching? Use this link to schedule a free Discovery call with me.  Connect with me on LinkedIn.  JobSearchCoachingHQ.com offers great advice for job hunters PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.   Connect with me on LinkedIn. Join and attend my classes on Skillshare. Become a premium member and get 2 months free. Join Career Angles on Facebook and receive support, ideas and advice in your current career and job. Watch my videos on YouTube at JobSearchTV.com or BingeNetworks.tv for FireTV, AppleTV, Roku and 90 other devices

EP 1522 Peggy Collins ties this message home very effectively about networking and offers easy to follow ways to improve your networking skills. ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a career and leadership coach who worked as a recruiter for more than 40 years. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 1500 episodes and “No BS Coaching Advice.” He is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council. Are you interested in 1:1 coaching, interview coaching, advice about networking more effectively, how to negotiate your offer or leadership coaching? Use this link to schedule a free Discovery call with me.  Connect with me on LinkedIn.  JobSearchCoachingHQ.com offers great advice for job hunters PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.   Connect with me on LinkedIn. Join and attend my classes on Skillshare. Become a premium member and get 2 months free. Join Career Angles on Facebook and receive support, ideas and advice in your current career and job. Watch my videos on YouTube at JobSearchTV.com or BingeNetworks.tv for FireTV, AppleTV, Roku and 90 other devices --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nobsjobsearchadviceradio/support

Peggy Collins, Bloomberg News Managing Editor of U.S. Economy, discusses the intensifying U.S., China trade war and a burgeoning tech cold war. Sonali Basak, Bloomberg News Investment Banking Reporter, shares her profile of Apollo executive Gary Parr and his chocolate “side hustle.” Jon Erlichman, Anchor of BNN Bloomberg’s The Open, talks about President Trump targeting Huawei as part of trade deal with China. Author Nisa Amoils explains how to level the entrepreneurial playing field for women. And we Drive to the Close with Leo Kelly, CEO at Verdence Capital Advisors. Hosts: Carol Massar and Jason Kelly.  Producer: Paul Brennan 

Peggy Collins, Bloomberg News Managing Editor of U.S. Economy, discusses the intensifying U.S., China trade war and a burgeoning tech cold war. Sonali Basak, Bloomberg News Investment Banking Reporter, shares her profile of Apollo executive Gary Parr and his chocolate “side hustle.” Jon Erlichman, Anchor of BNN Bloomberg's The Open, talks about President Trump targeting Huawei as part of trade deal with China. Author Nisa Amoils explains how to level the entrepreneurial playing field for women. And we Drive to the Close with Leo Kelly, CEO at Verdence Capital Advisors. Hosts: Carol Massar and Jason Kelly.  Producer: Paul Brennan  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Becky Frankiewicz, President of ManpowerGroup North America, discusses the jobs landscape and what industries are showing the strongest hiring. David Dietze, Founder, President and Chief Investment Strategist of Point View Wealth Management, and  Peggy Collins, U.S. Investing team leader, on the annual Berkshire Hathaway meeting and Buffett taking a stake in Amazon. Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist at Invesco, on jobs data, central banks, and how different global elections and events could rattle markets. Chris Lu, Former Deputy Secretary of Labor and Senior Fellow at the University of Virginia Miller Center, discusses Fed pick Moore dropping out, the state of the White House and AG Barr.  Hosted by Lisa Abramowicz and Paul Sweeney. 

Molly Smith, Bloomberg News Corporate Finance Reporter, and Craig Trudell, Bloomberg News U.S. Autos Team Leader, discuss Tesla's plan to raise about $2 billion through debt and stock offerings, after Elon Musk overestimated the ability of the Model 3 sedan to generate enough cash for the company to be self-sustaining. Janet Lorin, Bloomberg News Endowments Reporter, explains how Warren Buffett delighted in investing on behalf of a tiny liberal arts school endowment. Peggy Collins, Bloomberg News Investing Team Leader, talks about private equity firm Apollo Global Management planning to convert to a corporation from a partnership following in the footsteps of some of its biggest peers. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Bloomberg News Seattle Bureau Chief Dina Bass, share the Businessweek Magazine cover story profiling Microsoft's Satya Nadella. And we Drive to the Close with Carol Schleif, Chief Investment Officer at Abbot Downing. Hosts: Carol Massar and Jason Kelly.  Producer: Paul Brennan  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Molly Smith, Bloomberg News Corporate Finance Reporter, and Craig Trudell, Bloomberg News U.S. Autos Team Leader, discuss Tesla’s plan to raise about $2 billion through debt and stock offerings, after Elon Musk overestimated the ability of the Model 3 sedan to generate enough cash for the company to be self-sustaining. Janet Lorin, Bloomberg News Endowments Reporter, explains how Warren Buffett delighted in investing on behalf of a tiny liberal arts school endowment. Peggy Collins, Bloomberg News Investing Team Leader, talks about private equity firm Apollo Global Management planning to convert to a corporation from a partnership following in the footsteps of some of its biggest peers. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Bloomberg News Seattle Bureau Chief Dina Bass, share the Businessweek Magazine cover story profiling Microsoft's Satya Nadella. And we Drive to the Close with Carol Schleif, Chief Investment Officer at Abbot Downing. Hosts: Carol Massar and Jason Kelly.  Producer: Paul Brennan 

Peggy Collins, Bloomberg News Investing Team Leader, breaks down private equity news from Blackstone, KKR, Apollo and the SuperReturn International conference. Lily Katz, Bloomberg News Real Estate Reporter, talks about Hudson Yards, the site of new restaurants and shops located at a once deserted commercial zone on Manhattan's West Side. Bobby Turner, CEO at Turner Impact Capital, discusses impact investing in the real estate space. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Businessweek Writer Felix Gillette talk about a changing of the guard at HBO as the media company tries to compete with Netflix. And we Drive to the Close of markets with Steve Kroll, Managing Director at Monness Crespi Hardt & Co.Hosts: Carol Massar and Jason Kelly. Producer: Paul Brennan  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Peggy Collins, Bloomberg News Investing Team Leader, breaks down private equity news from Blackstone, KKR, Apollo and the SuperReturn International conference. Lily Katz, Bloomberg News Real Estate Reporter, talks about Hudson Yards, the site of new restaurants and shops located at a once deserted commercial zone on Manhattan’s West Side. Bobby Turner, CEO at Turner Impact Capital, discusses impact investing in the real estate space. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Businessweek Writer Felix Gillette talk about a changing of the guard at HBO as the media company tries to compete with Netflix. And we Drive to the Close of markets with Steve Kroll, Managing Director at Monness Crespi Hardt & Co.Hosts: Carol Massar and Jason Kelly. Producer: Paul Brennan 

Anne Stevenson-Yang, Co-Founder and Research Director for J Capital Research LTD and a Bloomberg Opinion contributor, on China trade talks and what the Huawei charges could mean for 5G networks. Peggy Collins, Investing Team Leader for Bloomberg, on "Bond King" Bill Gross retiring after four decades in the industry. Ian Webber, CEO of Global Ship Lease (NYSE: GSL), on the global trade environment and impact of trade negotiations, and the company's recent merger. Jon Swallen, Chief Research Officer: North America at Kantar Media, on Super Bowl advertising.  Hosted by Lisa Abramowicz and Paul Sweeney.

In this week's episode, Kerry Ramsay interviews graphic designer Peggy Collins, owner of The Bookery. Peggy shares ideas for boosting your company's visual identity, and making your brand images stand out from the competition.

Peggy Collins, Bloomberg News Investing Team Leader, discusses how fewer firms, passive investing, and less research mean fewer hedge fund “dream jobs.” Jay Roberts, CEO of Domio, explains the tech-enabled hospitality company that is reinventing alternative lodging.Mark Gurman, Bloomberg News Tech Reporter, and Shira Ovide, Bloomberg Opinion Technology Columnist, break down Apple's marketing shift to boost iPhone sales. Peter Gourdine, President at Home Court Capital, talks about the sports startup that uses big data to identify future sports stars. And we Drive to the Close of markets with John Lovito, Co-CIO of Global Fixed Income American Century Investments.Hosts: Carol Massar and Jason Kelly. Producer: Paul Brennan  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Peggy Collins, Bloomberg News Investing Team Leader, discusses how fewer firms, passive investing, and less research mean fewer hedge fund “dream jobs.” Jay Roberts, CEO of Domio, explains the tech-enabled hospitality company that is reinventing alternative lodging.Mark Gurman, Bloomberg News Tech Reporter, and Shira Ovide, Bloomberg Opinion Technology Columnist, break down Apple's marketing shift to boost iPhone sales. Peter Gourdine, President at Home Court Capital, talks about the sports startup that uses big data to identify future sports stars. And we Drive to the Close of markets with John Lovito, Co-CIO of Global Fixed Income American Century Investments.Hosts: Carol Massar and Jason Kelly. Producer: Paul Brennan 

David Welch, Detroit Bureau Chief, and Matt Miller, co-anchor of Bloomberg’s European Open, on Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn arrested over financial improprieties. Peggy Collins, Bloomberg Investing Team Leader, on Abby Johnson preparing Fidelity for a $22 trillion shift in assets to women. Anne Mathias, Vanguard’s Global Rates and FX Strategist, discusses how China trade negotiations are impacting markets, and what to expect from the Fed.

Danielle DiMartino Booth, CEO and Director of Intelligence at Quill Intelligence, and a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, discusses red flags in the economy. Dr. Ellen Wald, President of Transversal Consulting and author of "Saudi, Inc.," discusses US-Saudi relations, and impact to oil markets and MBS’ tech investments. Peggy Collins, U.S. Investing team leader, on Invesco buying Oppenheimer Funds. Steve Englander, Global Head of G10 FX Research and North America Strategy for Standard Chartered Bank, and a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, on the U.S. Treasury’s foreign-exchange policy report to Congress.

Peggy Collins, Bloomberg News U.S. investing team leader, discusses President Trump’s Friday tweet, where he said that he’s asked the SEC to investigate a switch from quarterly earnings from U.S. companies to reporting results every six months. Plus, Richard Ausness, a professor at the University Of Kentucky School Of Law, discusses President Trump’s Thursday request for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to initiate a federal lawsuit against opioid makers for their role in the historic opioid crisis in America. They speak with Bloomberg's June Grasso. 

Peggy Collins, Bloomberg News U.S. investing team leader, discusses President Trump's Friday tweet, where he said that he's asked the SEC to investigate a switch from quarterly earnings from U.S. companies to reporting results every six months. Plus, Richard Ausness, a professor at the University Of Kentucky School Of Law, discusses President Trump's Thursday request for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to initiate a federal lawsuit against opioid makers for their role in the historic opioid crisis in America. They speak with Bloomberg's June Grasso.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Why we need strategies for expanding SEL training to address issues of race and equity. @larryferlazzo @pcc5th @DeEttaMJones @Bamradionetwork DeEtta Jones is the founder and principal of DeEtta Jones and Associates, a Chicago-based consulting firm that specializes in leveraging culture to enhance individual and organizational performance. Mai Xi Lee is the Director of Social Emotional Learning for Sacramento City Unified School District. Ms. Lee has been an educator for over 20 years. Carla Tantillo Philibert is the founder of Mindful Practices Yoga and author of Everyday SEL & Mindfulness. Peggy Collins taught middle grades for 12 years before joining the Mindful Practices team in 2015. Now, she writes blogs, books, grants and curricula to help teachers and students reach their Social Emotional Learning potential.

(Bloomberg)--Bloomberg Markets with Carol Massar and Cory Johnson.u0010u0010Peggy Collins on Buffett wagering big on just a few stocks u0010u0010(Corrects spelling of Warren Buffett's last name)

(Bloomberg)--Bloomberg Markets with Carol Massar and Cory Johnson.u0010u0010Peggy Collins on Buffett wagering big on just a few stocks u0010u0010(Corrects spelling of Warren Buffett's last name) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Bloomberg Markets with Carol Massar and Cory Johnson. GUESTS: Anders Melin Executive Compensation Reporter Bloomberg News Discussing perks for America's CEOs. Katya Kazakina Art Market Reporter Bloomberg News Discussing confidence returning to the art market with Peggy Collins, Bloomberg News Investing Team Leader. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Bloomberg Markets with Carol Massar and Cory Johnson. GUESTS: Anders Melin Executive Compensation Reporter Bloomberg News Discussing perks for America's CEOs. Katya Kazakina Art Market Reporter Bloomberg News Discussing confidence returning to the art market with Peggy Collins, Bloomberg News Investing Team Leader.

Have you learned to be so good at being independent that you now need to learn the power of asking for help? Joining Jeanie this week is Peggy Collins, the author of “Help Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Why Doing It All Is Doing You In.” In a culture that emphasizes independence, asking for help is often seen as a … Read more about this episode...

This week Maria speaks with Joanna Meiseles, founder of “The Snip-its Corporation? - tips for parents taking their child for their first haircut, what to know, and products that are non irritants on children’s skin.  Next, Dr. Jennifer Trachtenberg, author of “Good Kids, Bad Habits? - The RealAge guide to raising healthy children and then Peggy Collins, author of “Help Is Not a Four-Letter Word?, also Jim Ryan, author of “Simple Happiness? - 52 Easy Ways to Lighten Up.