As TWN readers know, I have been on a lot of international travel lately — to Beijing, Mumbain, Tokyo, Berlin, London, Brussels, and Tel Aviv. In all of these places, I met angry and frustrated finance ministry bureaucrats, central bankers, retail bankers, investment bankers, and other fund managers.
I had to laugh reading the news that Florida insurance regulators are zapping a major insurance firm because of the travel preferences of U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-20). Schultz apparently applied for an ‘increased amount’ of life insurance because she planned to travel internationally.
Before she was up and he was down and now he’s back on top again. According to Gallup’s daily tracking polls, Obama now has a three point lead over Hillary Clinton.
Across my desk just came an interesting newspaper supplement packed with some thoughtful national security related interviews and commentary from the Munich Security Conference. The publication was jointly published by the Sueddeutsche Zeitung and the American Academy in Berlin.
Wearing blue is sometimes just not enough. I hug a lot of Republicans — particularly today’s “dissident Republicans in foreign and economic policy”, and there are some Dems I won’t go near — and the flip is true. I hug a lot of Democrats, and there are a lot of Republicans I won’t go near….
P.J. Simmons, formerly with the Sea Studios Foundation and now with Big Blue Advisors, just sent me this link to a high quality Sea Studios video titled “Ahead of the Curve: Business Responds to Climate Change.” It is 12 minutes long — and I hope folks watch it, particularly those in the business community.
(photo credit: Will Bower) Last night, I could not attend a happy hour gathering of friends of mine at the Mayflower Hotel’s Town & Country Bar as I was participating in a Center for New America Security dinner with Iran specialist Vali Nasr and nuclear arms expert Ashton Carter.
Have any of them been to Cuba? For a few hours, it seemed that only Barack Obama’s passport files had been breached. Now we know that both John McCain’s and Hillary Clinton’s passport information have also been breached.
