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i m pete davis, senior vice president and past president of the club. the national economist club was started in 196 by herb stein, the chair of the council of economic advisers and it has met roughly 40 weeks out of every year since presenting leading economists talking about issues of the day. today we re very pleased to mark gold wine of the committee for responsible federal budget to talk about the return of trillion dollar deficits. before i introduce mark, let me tell you about some upcoming programs. we have dr. alice rivlin on february 1st at a luncheon right here at the chinatown garden talking about fed policy and maybe a little bit about the budget. she s a former vice chair of the fed and, of course, the founding director of the congressional budget office. we also have commitments to speak in february although the dates haven t been set by the current chair of the council of economic advisers kevin hasset and also the congressional budget office director. m ....
time to her book form today on what washington is wrong, the unelected officials who run thet government and their misconceptions about the american people. many reasons of course it s hard to imagine right now as we are about three weeks after the election that brought president-elect trump to the brink of office, a book that might be more timely for this moment in america and indeed the turnout today for a book form suggest there widespread interest in the content of this book.sa also i am delighted to have today as speakers, one of the authors, ginsburg and cattle who have all worked in a political science senior and jennifer bachner, a new frontier. indeed, donald trump raises the question that has been on the american agenda for some time, which is a deep satisfaction with much of the country out that it s about way the beltway. i remember this all sitting around thinking after having lived in washington where some 25 years now, the life out there may really be d ....
game of governing and politics. phil, you made a point that tweeting wasn t the same. some people don t know what the hell it is now but it has changed dramatically since 2008. i put it even further context in, when i was in the white house, a couple of oust would meet up with leon panetta every night and we would look at the three tvs, abc, cbs, whatever the other one was and, see whether our good stories had risen or whether the bad stories had gone down. you could see wolf kind of standing out in the yard there without even an umbrella sometimes. that was a good day if your good story was up. or down. that was all we dealt with. now the, the onslaught of information, moving information all sorts of sinister reasons has fundamentally changed governing and strategies. just three things that kind of pop out to me. and just in phrases. it s, what i hear you guys saying is that that you re underlying fundamental belief that people are coming to washington to get something ....
us is the authorization of construction of pipeline infrastructure, the keystone xl, a project that in my view and i think the view of certainly all on this side and several others on the other side is important to our energy s infrastructure system and how we work to build that out. i don t think it s any breaking news here today, but i do believe that our climate is changing. i have said that. i don t agree that all the changes are necessarily due solely to human activity. i ve come from a state where we can see the change. i d welcome all of my colleagues one day to join me in alaska on a walking tour of what we call the permafrost tunnel, basically a tunnel bored straight back into the bank of a hill in fairbanks, pretty much in the interior part of the state where it is truly a walk back in time 30,000 years, where through the ice lenses that you see that you can touch, that you can smell in this tunnel, in this cave, you can see what has happened over the cour ....
families. whichever family it was relevant to. it is a really strange thing because i didn t feel i have to go to the fbi didn t want to go to the fbi because i didn t think we d get to the families. when i went directly to the families, they many times all the time or happy to have the spirit of what are they going to do with the information once you get it. now how do you operate on it whether someone is saying i know how to make contact with the kidnappers or whether it is information about where people are being held or anything like that. we passed it onto the families but there was always this empty feeling they would not be effectively worked on because of the failure of the government to assist. i think that is a success of the british philosophy in terms of having two diplomats totally delegated to helping hostage families understand what is going on. they don t pay ransom either. their results are similar to ours up to this point. but at least families suc ....