Mark hosts Ed Goeas, co-author with Celinda Lake of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book A Question of Respect: Bringing Us Together in a Deeply Divided Nation. Goeas reflected on the root causes of polarization and the loss of trust in America’s political system, drawing on decades of experience as a leading Republican pollster and co-director of the bipartisan Battleground Poll. He shared insights from the book on the dangers of cynicism and toxic incentives in politics, as well a...

Mark hosts Congressman Buddy Carter (R-GA) on U.S. Energy Policy: Developments from “One Big Beautiful Bill”. Congressman Buddy Carter was a webinar guest in 2023 and frequent attendee of the ACCF’s “Washington’s Last Salon,” a bipartisan forum for public policy discussion. A committed public servant, Rep. Carter previously served as the Mayor of Pooler, Georgia, and in the Georgia General Assembly, where he used three decades of business experience as the owner of Carter’s Pharmacy to make g...

Mark invites his very first guest back for his 100th episode for A Conversation with the Hon. Lawrence H. Summers about “US Economic Policy: Lessons from the Past for Today and the Future”. Professor Summers was the 71st US Secretary of the Treasury,1999 to 2001; Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, 2009 to 2010; the 27th President of Harvard, 2001 to 2006; and today the Charles W. Eliot Professor at Harvard. In November 2023, Professor Summers joined the Bo...

Mark hosts Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) for a Conversation About “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Senator Johnson has called the legislation “immoral and grotesque” due to its projected $2.4 trillion increase in the national deficit over the next decade. How Senator Johnson votes on the bill may very well determine its fate. He has raised concerns about our growing debt with every president, Democrat and Republican alike, since coming to the Senate, beginning with President Obama to the present. Prior...

Mark hosts A Conversation with David Malpass, the 13th Chairman of the World Bank (2019-2023) about “Economic Policy Today”. Mr. Malpass served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs for President Trump and an economic advisor to candidate Trump during the 2016 presidential election. Earlier, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for President G.H. Bush, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for President Reagan, Director of the Congressional Joint ...

Mark Bloomfield welcomes House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill (R-AR) for A Conversation on the European Union’s Evolving and Far-Reaching Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and its Impacts on U.S. Businesses. Chairman Hill brings a unique private sector experience and public service to his chairmanship. He served President George H.W. Bush as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Corporate Finance and Secretary of the President’s Economic Policy Counc...

John Sullivan served as the former US Ambassador to Russia under Presidents Trump and Biden. His very timely book documents his time in Moscow when Russia invaded the Ukraine, and that’s why the appropriate subtitle is “A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia’s War Against the West". Previously, Ambassador Sullivan was the US Deputy Secretary of State. He has served five presidents in prominent diplomatic and legal positions. Ambassador Sullivan is currently a distinguished fellow at Ge...

Kevin Brady, former Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, was the main architect of the TCJA, the first major reform of the Internal Revenue Code since 1986. Chairman Brady also served as chairman of the Joint Economic Committee and Joint Committee on Taxation. Currently he is on the board of the Tax Foundation. He is also a senior consultant to the Akin Gump law firm.

Mark hosts Stephen Moore, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, on ‘Trumponomics’” Stephen Moore is the co-author of Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy, along with Arthur Laffer, the father of SupplySide economics. Steve is a former member of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board and was a senior economic advisor to President Trump in 2016. He is the co-founder and former president of the Club for Growth, the author of six books, and is...

Mark Bloomfield welcomes H.E. Oksana Markarova, Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States for a conversation on “The Economic Challenges for Ukraine.” Oksana Markova has served as Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States since February 2021. The Ambassador previously served as Minister of Finance where she co-authored Ukraine’s macroeconomic revival program with unprecedented fiscal success. She created the UkraineInvest government promotion agency and the Ukraine Startup Fund. Before her g...

Mark Bloomfield hosts Her Excellency Jovita Neliupšienė, the European Union Ambassador to the United States, who provided insights into the 2024 U.S. election and its implications for EU-U.S. relations. Ambassador Neliupšienė, with a distinguished background as the former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Economy and Innovation, shared her perspective on the transatlantic partnership’s future amidst global challenges. Notably, the Ambassador is one of several EU officials sanctioned by Rus...

Mark welcomes Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) for a conversation on his thoughts on five decades in public service. Over the last fifty years, Senator Cardin has earned titles of distinction including “Mr. Speaker” as the youngest Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates in history, “Mr. Chairman” of the Maryland House of Delegates Ways & Means Committee, "Mr. Chairman" of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee and “Mr. Chairman” of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.&n...

Mark Bloomfield welcomes Dr. Arthur Laffer, father of supply side economics and economic advisor to Presidents Reagan and Trump. When he presented Art Laffer with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019, President Trump said, “Few people in history have revolutionized economic thought and policy like Dr. Laffer. The father of supply side economics; a Yale graduate; a Stanford Ph.D.; the youngest tenured professor of the University of Chicago.” In the years 1972 to 1977 Art was an economic a...

Mark Bloomfield welcomes Representative Linda Sánchez (D-CA), Chair Emeritus of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and a member of the Ways & Means Committee, about the “Economic Policy Challenges for Latinos Today”. Representative Sánchez currently serves as the Ways & Means Committee, the first Latina to do so. When she became Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus, she was the first Latina elected to a leadership position in the US Congress. Her family and friends will tell you that sh...

Mark welcomes Greg Ip, Chief Economics Commentator for the Wall Street Journal and one of the best commentators on the economy and economic policy. He was part of the team of Wall Street Journal reporters who were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting. Greg is also the author of three books with provocative titles: The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World (2010), No Way Out?: Government Intervention and the Financial Crisis (2012), and Foolpro...

Mark Bloomfield welcomes Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at Financial Times, about his new book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. Former Secretary of Treasury Lawrence Summers, who kicked off our webinar series, called Martin Wolf “the world’s preeminent financial journalist.” Ben Bernanke, Nobel Prize-winning former chair of the Federal Reserve wrote, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism is "an excellent thought-pr...

Mark Bloomfield welcomes Michael J. Graetz, Professor Emeritus at Columbia and Yale Law Schools, on his latest book, The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America. Michael J. Graetz is a leading authority on tax politics and policy. He served in the US Treasury’s Office of tax Policy and is the coauthor of many books including Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth. Graetz received the Tax Foundation’s Distinguished Service Award in re...

Mark hosts A Conversation with Senator Joe Lieberman, Founding Chairman of No Labels, About “No Labels” & the 2024 Presidential Election. Joe Lieberman is the founding chairman of No Labels, a political organization whose stated mission is to support centrism and bipartisanship and a possible ballot line to a unity ticket in the 2024 presidential election. His forty years of public service includie 24 years in the US Senate and the Democratic nominee for vice president in Al ...

Mark welcomes Jason Furman, Former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Obama. Jason Furman is the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, jointly at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He is also nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Furman engages in public policy through research, writing and teaching in a wide range of areas including U.S. and international ma...

Mark Bloomfield discusses Proxy Advisors with Jay Clayton, Former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Jay Clayton served as Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission from May 2017 to December 2020. He is currently a Senior Policy Advisor and Of Counsel to Sullivan & Cromwell. Mr. Clayton’s practice centers on corporate governance and financial regulatory matters, economic policy and government relations, and investigations. For over twenty-five yea...