Which they raise these issues black conservatives working with white organizations were able to amplify the voices. White antiabortion issues benefited from black conservative faces to further their cause. The case for same sex marriage, however, did not fare as well African American slowly becoming more accepting of same sex marriage. I black conservatives simply tools of the larger way conservative organizations . Perhaps they are. Perhaps not. But it is clear for the leadership that the two issues like value voters, essential marriage, and white marches bond like minded people of all ethnicities. But are moderate when it comes to issues of economic, education, and other liberal issues. Factoring in barack obama as the first black president has certainly made it more difficult for black conservatives. Thank you. [applause] good afternoon, everyone. Im from the university of virginia, and im delighted to be here. Thanks for sticking with us this afternoon. My remarks today stem from a
Other reforms such as those that affect the labor, the product in the Services Market are likely to unfold positive results over the longerterm horizon. Yet they are essential to enhance productivity and innovation which in turn can be powerful antidotes to the impact of something that we cannot do anything about and that is affecting all of us beijing. Aging. We done a bit of research not so much on aging. Of the people can do that a little better that i but weve done research on Structural Reforms and weve try to flush out priorities and payoffs in the area of productivity growth Labor Participation entry. Let me take a break will put one after the other. Lets look at productivity growth. Reversing that decline in advanced economies requires lowering barriers to entry in products and Services Markets. Our research shows, for instance, that improving the allocation of labor and capital can significantly increase total factor productivity tsb as its called. Another example is the poten
Ll clinton moderates a Clinton Foundation summit on health care. Next changes to the financial industry due to technology, regulation and fraud and how that affects consumers. David nems addressed the executive club of chicago and sat down for a conversation with austin goolsby. This is just over 45. Minutes. Thank you, im really delighted to be here with you guys. Were going to discuss or were going to hear from david about the dij tieization of finance changing economic trends, how these are going to Impact Financial Services as well as partners, customers et cetera. Im honored to introduce david, all of you know him already, but let me just give you the background you already know. As you know, he is the chairman and ceo of discover Financial Services, which means hes responsible for the companys credit card, Student Loans, personal loans home equity loans, mortgages, cds, and Checking Account services. In addition, he oversees the discover network, the comprehensive payment network
There has been historically, if we do a couple of things differently everything would be much better. I dont think thats the case. I think, first of all, this is a very complex business. I think were actually pretty good at it. We had the best military in the world and we have had the best military in the world for quite a long time. I think we can get a lot better and we need to do a better job in a number of different fashions than what were doing. As an industry person or as a government person, i believe that identifying specific things you can do that will actually have an impact, trying them in some case and seeing if they do and attacking on a number of fronts prioritizing those fronts and going after the things you think will have the greatest benefit is the right approach. We have learned from our own experience here. And i think were actually making quite a bit of progress. If you look at the data i think you may be starting to see some changes in terms of results. If you loo
And i would suggest that a year from now, the notion that we would reverse this policy that is allowed more americans to travel to cuba and to help cuban people have access to more technology more capital more values and more contact with americans will seem as absurd as reversing the changes that were made with cuban American Travel a couple of years ago. So again, i applaud you for what youre doing and look forward to working with the administration as this policy unfolds. Thank you, senator menendez. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Let me ask you when a cubanamerican sends or visits their relatives in cuba and give them a lit money, the only place really to buy something is the dollar store isnt is that true . If you want to get something . I believe certainly theres theres more in those stores to buy. By the way, who owns the Dollar Stores . They are state run. Okay. The government. And so if i want to send a remittance to my relative in cuba, the cuban government takes a slice, right . T