The Narrative Monopoly (Jeff Feiwell)
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| 23 Nov 2021 | #34 - John Cochrane, The Return | 01:40:35 | |
A second conversation with economist John Cochrane
Bio John Cochrane is the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the author of The Grumpy Economist Blog. Before that John was a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, he’s taught both MBA and PhD programs. And a fellow of the Becker-Friedman Institute, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a past President and Fellow of the American Finance Association, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He’s served as the editor of numerous economics journals. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Physics at MIT, and earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California at Berkeley.
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| 03 Jun 2021 | #18 - Marty Bent, Bitcoin & Energy | 00:55:28 | |
Bio Marty Bent is a bitcoiner, podcast host, and newsletter author — specifically knowledgable about the intersection of bitcoin and energy use. Times
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| 17 Aug 2021 | #25 - Martin Gurri, Callin live Q & A | 00:45:47 | |
Martin Gurri rejoins The Narrative Monopoly to do a live Q & A on the Callin app cross posted here Q & A with Martin on:
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| 22 Apr 2021 | #12 - Robert Shiller, Narrative Economics | 00:55:10 | |
Bio Robert Shiller is a Nobel laureate, meaning he’s won the Nobel prize in economics. He’s a professor of Economics at Yale. He’s written countless papers, articles and books including Irrational Exuberance which predicted both the bubble in equities in the year 2000 as well as the housing crisis. He’s the “Shiller” in the Case-Shiller Indices which is how we measure home prices in this country. And he’s the author of the 2019 book, and main subject of today’s discussion, Narrative Economics. Times
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| 05 Feb 2021 | #2 - Jason Crawford, The Roots of Progress | 01:00:48 | |
From the site: The Roots of Progress is a website about the history of technology and industry, and the philosophy of human progress. It was founded on the conviction that the story of progress is important and under appreciated, and deserves to be studied. Jason Crawford is a former software engineering manager and tech startup founder. Times: 3:45 - What is progress? 7:30 - Progress in vaccines 21:00 - Regulatory structures & progress 29:30 - Funding models for progress 40:00 - How much $$ would it take for you to live in John D. Rockafeller’s era? 45:00 - The great stagnation 53:00 - Time horizons & capturing value
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| 27 Oct 2021 | #32 - David Sacks, Callin | 01:01:30 | |
This episode was recorded on Callin, a new social podcasting app Bio David Sacks is co-founder and general partner at Craft Ventures, founder of Callin, and co-host of the All-In Podcast. He has been a successful founder, investor, and operator for over two decades, including as member of the PayPal mafia and founder of Yammer. Some of his early stage investments include AirBnB, Bird, Eventbrite, Facebook, Lyft, OpenDoor, Palantir, Reddit, Slack, SpaceX, Twitter, and Uber. He also writes “Bottom Up SaaS,” a bible for SaaS companies. Times
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| 29 Apr 2021 | #13 - Eliana Johnson, Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Free Beacon | 00:55:53 | |
Bio Eliana Johnson is editor-in-chief of the Washington Free Beacon. Prior to joining the Free Beacon, she served as a White House correspondent at POLITICO. She is a regular presence on cable television and has appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’s Face the Nation, ABC’s This Week, and the PBS News Hour. She graduated from Yale College with a degree in History.
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| 13 May 2021 | #15 - Mark Galeotti, Russia | 01:20:38 | |
Bio Mark is one of the most knowledgeable people on the planet when it comes to everything Russia. He’s the CEO of Mayak Intelligence, he’s a PhD and has served as a professor a multiple schools including NYU and now the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies, he’s the author of many books on Russia. Including the recent titles A Short History of Russia and We Need to Talk about Putin How The West Gets Him Wrong. Times
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| 27 May 2021 | #17 - Yuval Levin, Institutions | 01:07:11 | |
Bio Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, he’s the founder and editor in chief of National Affairs. He was a domestic policy advisor to the 43rd President. He’s the author of numerous books including the subject of today's podcast, A Time to Build - From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream. And perhaps most importantly he’s seemingly always a few years ahead of the curve. He holds an MA and PhD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
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| 29 Jan 2021 | #1 - Martin Gurri, Revolt of the Public | 01:13:31 | |
Martin Gurri is a former CIA analyst specializing in the relationship of politics and global media. He is the author of the 2014 book The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium. The book is a prophetic look at how the explosion of information is impacting our society. If you’re curious as to why the events we’ve seen over the past 12 months are happening, this book and this conversation are the best places to start. Links to his book, his blog (The Fifth Wave), and his twitter are listed below:
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| 08 Jun 2022 | #38 - Erik Torenberg, Narratives | 01:22:43 | |
A conversation with Erik Torenberg on all things narrative and the The Narrative Monopoly
Bio Erik Torenberg is co-Founder and co-CEO of OnDeck, which is on a mission to organize the world's ambition. Co-Founder and Partner of Village Global, an early stage venture fund. Erik was the first employee and on the founding team of Product Hunt. He's also a writer and podcast host.
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| 25 Mar 2021 | #9 - Glenn Loury, Race & Economics | 01:01:12 | |
Bio Glenn Loury is a distinguished professor of economics at Brown University, he was a professor at Boston University, the University of Michigan, Northwestern University, and the first African American tenured professor of economics at Harvard. He’s the author of many books and essays, and the host of the popular Glenn Show podcast (link below). Times
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| 20 May 2021 | #16 - Geoff Lewis, Vibe Capitalist | 01:09:47 | |
Bio Geoff Lewis is the Founder & Managing Partner of Bedrock, a technology investment firm currently managing approximately one billion dollars. He’s served on the Board of Directors for companies including Lyft, Nubank, and Workrise. He’s also invested in Wish, Vercel, Anduril, and more. Prior to founding Bedrock, Geoff was a Partner at Founders Fund and was the co-founder and ceo of the technology company Topguest Times
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| 05 May 2022 | #37 - Eugene Volokh, Free Speech | 01:05:24 | |
A conversation about free speech with UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh
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Bio (from UCLA Law) Eugene Volokh teaches First Amendment law and a First Amendment amicus brief clinic at UCLA School of Law, where he has also often taught copyright law, criminal law, tort law, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy. Volokh is the author of the textbooks The First Amendment and Related Statutes (6th ed. 2016), and Academic Legal Writing (5th ed. 2013), as well as over 90 law review articles. He is a member of The American Law Institute, a member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel, and the founder and coauthor of The Volokh Conspiracy, a leading legal blog. His law review articles have been cited by opinions in eight Supreme Court cases and several hundred court opinions in total, as well as several thousand scholarly articles. Volokh worked for 12 years as a computer programmer. He graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in math-computer science at age 15, and has written many articles on computer software. Volokh was born in the USSR; his family emigrated to the U.S. when he was seven years old.
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| 16 Apr 2021 | #11 - Philip Klein, Editor of National Review Online | 00:53:15 | |
Philip Klein is the Editor of National Review Online. He's the author of numerous books including the subject of today's discussion, Fear Your Future: How the Deck Is Stacked Against Millennials and Why Socialism Would Make It Worse. Previously he was the executive editor of the Washington Examiner, a Washington correspondent for The American Spectator, and a financial reporter for Reuters. Times
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| 24 Jun 2021 | #21 - Tom Joscelyn, al-Qaeda & Jihad | 01:10:37 | |
Bio Thomas Joscelyn is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and is senior editor of FDD’s Long War Journal, a widely read publication on counterterrorism and related issues. His main focus is on jihadism and how al-Qaeda and the Islamic State operate around the globe. He has served as a consultant for the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division and has testified before Congress on more than twenty times. He has constructed dossiers on hundreds of terrorists during the course of his work. He’s been described as one of “the most trusted authorities on the al-Qaeda network because of his encyclopedic knowledge of terrorist biographies.” In 2017, as a result of Thomas’s efforts, the CIA declassified and released the vast majority of the files captured in Osama bin Laden’s compound.
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| 16 Dec 2021 | #35 - Michael Fritzell, Asian Century Stocks | 01:00:04 | |
A conversation with Michael Fritzell, author of Asian Century Stocks, on Asian markets and geopolitics
Bio Michael Fritzell is a Singapore-based analyst and the author of Asian Century Stocks. He's worked as an analyst and co-portfolio manager in Asia for well over a decade.
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| 29 Jul 2021 | #24 - John Cochrane, The Grumpy Economist | 01:11:31 | |
A conversation with world class economist John Cochrane on a wide range of topics Bio John Cochrane is the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the author of The Grumpy Economist Blog. Before that John was a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, he’s taught both MBA and PhD programs. And a fellow of the Becker-Friedman Institute, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a past President and Fellow of the American Finance Association, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He’s served as the editor of numerous economics journals. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Physics at MIT, and earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California at Berkeley.
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| 21 Sep 2021 | #27 - Joel Kotkin, Neo Feudalism | 00:52:06 | |
Bio Joel Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, Executive Director of the Houston-based Urban Reform Institute , the author of 10 books including his most recent “ The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class”. And he’s been described as “America’s uber-geographer”.
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| 08 Apr 2021 | [Deconstructing the Narrative] - Context of Famous Vietnam Photo | 00:06:23 | |
In this week's episode we're rolling out a new format - [Deconstructing the Narrative]. Every so often the podcast will deconstruct a popular narrative providing context and nuance behind it, to get to the truth. In this week's episode we deconstruct the narrative from the most infamous photograph of the war in Vietnam. On February 1st 1968, US photographer Eddie Adams caught the precise moment South Vietnamese General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executed Nguyễn Văn Lém with his .38 special Smith & Wesson. The narrative of Loan ruthlessly killing Lem went viral, and is still widely believed to this day. But is that really the case? Listen to find out.
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| 04 Mar 2021 | #6 - Bubba Atkinson, Axios & IJR | 01:04:56 | |
Bubba Atkinson has a wealth of experience in media and has been at the forefront of the digital media revolution. Bubba was employee #10 at Axios, where he served on the executive team and was the founding head of social, video, and audience . He was also a founding employee and editor in chief of IJReview. During his tenure, he oversaw the growth of 20 million facebook fans, 40 million unique visitors/month, 100 million pageviews/month, and over 3 billion total pageviews. He's now a consultant to some of the world's leading media properties. | |||
| 06 May 2021 | #14 - Drew Holden, Red Thread Redemption | 00:49:09 | |
Drew Holden is a public affairs consultant in Washington, D.C. He's well known for keeping the receipts on the media class and creating illuminating threads that show clear as day how the media treats different people with the same issue at hand. Times
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| 21 Oct 2021 | #31 - Jamie Catherwood, Investor Amnesia | 00:55:13 | |
Bio Jamie Catherwood is the publisher and author of Investor Amnesia ("The goal of Investor Amnesia is to provide investors with key insights and lessons from our past in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes.”). He majored in History at King’s College London, and entered the financial services industry after graduating. He started writing about financial history in 2018 and writes the Financial History: Sunday Reads newsletter, which goes out to over 14,000 people. He's guest lectured at the Yale School of Management, and his work has featured in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Financial Times, CNBC and more.
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| 01 Apr 2021 | #10 - Mike Solana, Pirate Wires | 01:09:54 | |
Bio Mike Solana is a vice president at Founders Fund focused on community and brand. He is the creator / producer of the Anatomy of Next Podcast. He's the author and creator of Pirate Wires. Times
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| 29 Apr 2022 | #36 - Michael S. Malone, The Big Score | 02:01:09 | |
A conversation with Michael S. Malone, author of The Big Score, on the history of the semiconductor industry and silicon valley
Topics include (but not limited to): Fred Terman, Hewlett-Packard, Stanford, Vacuum Tubes, Varian Brothers, Fairchild, Intel, AMD, National Semiconductor, Bob Noyce, Gordon Moore, Arthur Rock, Andy Grove, Jerry Sanders, Charlie Sporck, Bob Widlar, Transistor, Microprocessor, Ted Hoff, Planar Manufacturing Process, Venture Capital, Eugene Kleiner, Nolan Bushnell, and More!
Bio (from Big Score) Michael S. Malone has covered Silicon Valley and tech for over 30 years. His articles and editorials have appeared in the San Jose Mercury-News, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Fortune, and New York Times. He has written or co-authored more than 25 award-winning books, including Bill and Dave and The Intel Trinity, and co-produced The New Heroes, an Emmy-nominated miniseries on social entrepreneurs. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
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| 14 Oct 2021 | #30 - Antonio García Martínez, The Pull Request | 01:04:11 | |
Bio Antonio García Martínez is a writer at and the publisher of The Pull Request, a publication about technology by technologists for technologists. He also hosts the The Pull Request podcast on Callin. He is best known for writing the best selling book: Chaos Monkeys, Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley. The book details his journey from the PhD physics program at Cal Berkley, to trading credit derivatives at Goldman, to founding a YC company - AdGrok, to working as Facebook's first ads targeting product manager.
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| 10 Mar 2021 | #7 - Josh Holmes, Future of the GOP | 01:19:11 | |
Josh Holmes is a Founding Partner and President of Cavalry LLC. Prior to that he was Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell. He managed McConnell’s 2014 re-election campaign as well as numerous other Senate campaigns. He's also a frequent guest on Fox News, and the co-host of the podcast Ruthless. Times
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| 18 Feb 2021 | #4 - Gerard Baker, WSJ Editor at Large | 01:32:39 | |
A wide ranging conversation with WSJ Editor at Large (and former Editor in Chief), Gerard Baker. We touch on everything from his experience in journalism, narratives, and recent social phenomena. From his WSJ Bio: "Gerry Baker is Editor-at-Large of The Wall Street Journal. His weekly column for the editorial page, “Free Expression,” appears in The Wall Street Journal each Tuesday. Mr. Baker is also host of “WSJ at Large with Gerry Baker,” a weekly news and current affairs interview show on the Fox Business Network. Mr. Baker previously served as Editor-in-Chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones from 2013-2018. Prior to that, Mr. Baker was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of The Wall Street Journal from 2009-2013. He has been a journalist for more than 30 years, writing and broadcasting for some of the world’s most famous news organizations, including his tenure at The Financial Times, The Times of London, and The BBC. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, where he graduated in 1983 with a 1st Class Honors Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. You can follow him at @GerardTBaker.
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| 26 Feb 2021 | #5 - Doug Ellin, Entourage | 00:46:58 | |
Doug Ellin was the creator, writer, and director of Entourage. We talk all things Entourage.
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| 13 Sep 2021 | #26 - Anthony Pompliano, Bitcoin & Media | 01:01:36 | |
Bio Anthony Pompliano is a bitcoiner, GP of Pomp investments, host of The Pomp Podcast, The Best Business show, author of The Pomp Letter, and last but not least - a veteran of our armed forces.
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| 12 Feb 2021 | #3 - Ben Hunt, Epsilon Theory | 01:02:26 | |
Ben Hunt Bio from his site Ben Hunt is the creator of Epsilon Theory. Over 100,000 professional investors and allocators across 180 countries read Epsilon Theory for its fresh perspective and novel insights into market dynamics. As Chief Investment Officer, Ben bears primary responsibility for determining the Company’s investment views and positioning of model portfolios. He is also the primary author of materials distributed through Epsilon Theory. Ben taught political science for 10 years. He also wrote two academic books: Getting to War (Univ. of Michigan Press, 1997) and Policy and Party Competition (Routledge, 1992), which he co-authored with Michael Laver. Ben is the founder of two technology companies and the co-founder of SmartEquip, Inc., a software company for the construction equipment industry that provides intelligent schematics and parts diagrams to facilitate e-commerce in spare parts. He began his investment career in 2003, first in venture capital and subsequently on two long/short equity hedge funds. He worked at Iridian Asset Management from 2006 until 2011 and TIG Advisors from 2012 until 2013. Ben is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (1986) and earned his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 1991. Times
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| 15 Jul 2021 | #23 - Max Towey, Roca News | 00:51:36 | |
A conversation with Max Towey, co-founder and CEO of RocaNews, about the media and state of America Bio Max Towey is co-founder and CEO of RocaNews, a company committed to making news easy and enjoyable. He previously worked at a DC think tank where he hosted it’s official podcast Banter. He received an undergrad degree from Notre Dame.
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| 18 Mar 2021 | #8 - Adam White, Law & the Judiciary | 01:06:56 | |
A conversation with Adam White, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute & Executive Director of George Mason University's Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State Bio (from AEI) Adam White is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on American constitutionalism, the Supreme Court, and the administrative state. Concurrently, he is assistant professor of law and the director of the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. Mr. White previously practiced constitutional and administrative law, particularly in the regulation of energy and the environment, finance, and telecommunications. He was a research fellow for Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and an adjunct fellow for the Manhattan Institute. He started his legal career as a law clerk for Judge David B. Sentelle at the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Mr. White has appeared in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, National Affairs, Commentary, The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and the Notre Dame Law Review. Mr. White has testified before a variety of US House and US Senate committees, including the Senate Judiciary Committee; the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial, and Antitrust Law (currently known as the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law); the Senate Commerce Committee; and the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. He has a JD from Harvard Law School and a bachelor of business administration from the College of Business at the University of Iowa. Times
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| 10 Jun 2021 | #19 - Mike Maples, Jr., Relentless Optimist | 01:06:19 | |
Bio Mike is a co-founding Partner at Floodgate, a venture firm in the bay area. Some of Mike’s investments include Twitter, Twitch.tv, Lyft, Clover Health, Okta, and Chegg. Before founding Floodgate Mike was founder and operating executive at back-to-back startup IPOs, including Tivoli Systems and Motive. Mike is the host of the Starting Greatness podcast, which shares startup lessons from the super performers. Times
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| 06 Oct 2021 | #29 - Lanhee Chen, California & Health Care | 00:55:16 | |
Bio Lanhee Chen is currently a candidate for Controller of California. After earning four degrees from Harvard University, including a law degree and doctorate in political science, he served in senior roles in both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations. Lanhee is regarded as one of America’s leading policy commentators and experts - specifically on health care. He teaches at Stanford, was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as a member of the independent and bipartisan Social Security Advisory Board. Lanhee has also built his own small business, which focuses on providing advice on fiscal and other public policy issues to leaders in both the public and private sectors. He is an investor who works with entrepreneurs to help them grow their businesses and create new jobs. He is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors of El Camino Health, a health care system in his community.
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| 23 Sep 2021 | #28 - Mark Nelson, Nuclear Energy | 01:13:32 | |
Bio Mark Nelson is a Managing Director at Radiant Energy Fund. He’s one of the world’s foremost authorities on nuclear energy. In his capacity with the fund, he fights to keep Nuclear energy plants open around the world.
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| 18 Nov 2021 | #33 - James Poulos, Human Forever | 01:04:21 | |
A conversation with James Poulos on his new book Human Forever
Bio James Poulos is the Executive Editor of The American Mind and author of the books The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselves and now Human Forever. Dr. Poulos graduated from Duke University with distinction in Political Science and received his Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University. He is also the contributing editor of American Affairs and a fellow at the Center for the Study of Digital Life.
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| 08 Jul 2021 | #22 - Brian Riedl, Budget Whisperer & Debt Crusader | 00:58:18 | |
Bio (From Manhattan Institute) - Brian Riedl is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, focusing on budget, tax, and economic policy. Previously, he worked for six years as chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) and as staff director of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth. He also served as a director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign and was the lead architect of the ten-year deficit-reduction plan for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. During 2001–11, Riedl served as the Heritage Foundation’s lead research fellow on federal budget and spending policy. In that position, he helped lay the groundwork for Congress to cap soaring federal spending, rein in farm subsidies, and ban pork-barrel earmarks. Riedl’s writing and research have been featured in, among others, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and National Review; he is a frequent guest on NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, and C-SPAN. Riedl holds a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from the University of Wisconsin and a master's degree in public affairs from Princeton University.
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| 17 Jun 2021 | #20 - Kat Cole, Brand, Distribution, & Leadership | 00:51:10 | |
Bio Kat Cole is the former Chief Operating Officer and president of Focus Brands. Her journey began as a Hooters hostess at age 17, and within 2 years she was traveling around the world launching new locations for the company becoming a Vice President at 26. In 2010 she became the president of Cinnabon, turning the company around during the recession. That was part of Focus Brands — the parent company of Auntie Anne’s, Carvel, Cinnabon, Jamba, Moe’s Southwest Grill, McAlister’s Deli, and Schlotzsky’s. For 10 years at Focus she was a turnaround artist of its franchise businesses and grew global, multi-channel retail offerings to more than $1 billion in branded sales.
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