If you are in or near Washington, DC at 12:15 pm on Friday, you should come to the New America Foundation and spend some time absorbing the way Nobel Laureate in Economics Thomas Schelling thinks about states with nuclear weapons — and potentially a nuclear-armed Iran. Here is the event info.
Congressman Adam Schiff hosted a “Members Only” meeting of the ‘Congressional Friends of Jordan Caucus’ in the US House of Representatives this morning in the CVC Congressional Meeting Room with Jordan’s King Abdullah II. According to one attendee in the session, “the King’s message was sobering.
Tonight at about 8:20 pm, I’ll be back with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC’s Countdown discussing Senator John McCain’s call on President Obama to “pull the trigger” on bombing Iran. The jingle could be laughed off. The Senator’s remarks today can’t be.
This is a guest note by Sarah Stephens, executive director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas. President Obama, Gloria Estefan, and the US National Interest In a few hours, President Obama will visit the home of Emilio and Gloria Estefan for a fundraising event that will cost attendees $30,400 per couple.
Yesterday, I had a terrific exchange with Pete Dominick on his Stand Up with Pete Dominick Show on XM and Sirius Radio on President Obama’s nuclear summitry and what it all means. He actually read a question from one of my commenters, POA (aka “Pissed Off American”) about Israel.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Here are some thoughts that I shared with Keith Olbermann on President Obama’s significant Nuclear Security Summit. More tomorrow.
Vice President Joe Biden has been quietly carrying the water on tomorrow’s Nuclear Summit since Barack Obama got the keys to the White House.
Tonight just after Keith Olbermann opens his show, MSNBC’s Countdown, at about 8:05 pm, I will be chatting with him about President Barack Obama’s nuclear summitry. I’m in the “impressed” column with what Obama and his team have been lining up.
Former IMF Chief Economist and Harvard University economist Kenneth Rogoff made an interesting point on “economic history” at the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference.
The evening before last, George Soros offered some remarks at the launch conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking taking place in the Cambridge University Kings College environs where John Maynard Keynes imagined and drafted an entirely new economic system for that time in global history.
