FedEx Exec Michael Ducker Waiting for White House to Show more Leadership in Championing Trade Promotion
Kicking off his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Truth for America Show” on WZAB-AM, Neal Asbury opened the show by admonishing Democratic leaders like Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer for pushing a polarizing issue such as immigration at a time when the country is still reeling from the healthcare debate. He proposed that this initiative as nothing more than a “naked political ploy to help their floundering reelection campaigns.” While... Read More
When You Lose This Game, Everyone Loses
Let’s say your favorite football team announces that they have fired the entire coaching staff. In their place, they have hired a staff where only one new coach has ever played football. The rest just followed the team by watching games from the safety of their couch. Would you be looking for a Super Bowl appearance this year? But suppose the country elected a president whose primary job was to jumpstart the economy by creating jobs –especially... Read More
What You Should Know About Universal Healthcare Will Make You Sick
We’re on our way to universal healthcare. And on the fast road back to 20th century medicine. If you’re still naive enough to believe that consumers in England and Canada are basking in low cost universal health benefits, a recent sobering study by the United Nations International Health Organization shows that these patients are paying a steep price for their limited access to diagnoses and treatment that may actually be impacting their quality... Read More
Conscientious Equity
On March 15, 2010, Peter Miller, President of PMA Literary & Film Management, Inc., announced the sale of the world English rights to Conscientious Equity: An American Entrepreneur’s Solutions to the World’s Greatest Problems by Neal Asbury to Palgrave Macmillan. Miller negotiated the sale with Laurie Harting, Executive Editor. The book will be published in hardcover in October 2010. In Conscientious Equity, Asbury argues that moving away... Read More
Neal Asbury to Join President Barack Obama & Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner as a Guest Speaker at the 2010 Ex-Im Bank Annual Conference.
Neal Asbury has been invited to speak at the 2010 Ex-Im Bank Annual Conference, which will feature a wide variety of prominent public figures including the President of the United States, Barack Obama. The theme of this year’s conference, which is being held March 11th and 12th, is “EXPORTS LIVE! Powering Jobs, Sales and Profits Through Exports.” In addition to guest speaker President Obama and Neal Asbury, the conference will feature Secretary... Read More
Sandbagging the Tea Baggers
When loyal Americans gathered in 1776 to demand a government that was responsive to the citizenry, they were called Patriots. Today, when loyal Americans gather to demand that their government be responsive to their wishes, they are called “crazies” or worse. The Tea Party movement has galvanized millions of Americans but it has also galvanized a small but powerful group of government and media representatives that demonize average citizens... Read More
Let’s Run America Like A Business
A recurring theme on The Neal Asbury Show is that my guests point to the obvious lack of business prowess among our leaders in Washington. Can we really expect leaders who have never had to make payroll or pay for healthcare benefits to pass laws about these very policies? Should we expect leaders who have never been involved in the manufacturing or export of products and services to appreciate the value of Free Trade Agreements? Most importantly,... Read More
Invisible Jobs and Shadow Unemployment
Following the Obama Administration’s proclamation that jobs are being created is like being a Ghost Buster – we are chasing invisible jobs! If there are 640,000 new jobs created under the stimulus package, as the Obama Administration contends, then they must be in the witness protection program. The latest labor figures from The Wall Street Journal suggest that if we factor in December’s loss of 85,000 jobs, then between December 2007 (when... Read More
Exporting Gets a Charge
With sales sluggish early this year, Ariel Ozick took a gamble. The CEO of a Newark, Del., search marketing firm, Ozick began looking for new clients in Ireland, England, Scotland and Australia. Though he recognized the challenges of working abroad, which include everything from complying with international tax laws to the vagaries of currency exchanges, Ozick needed the new business. There have already been some bumps. While the 16-nation euro-zone,... Read More
Tough Enough
Are you tough enough? As an American Entrepreneur and small business owner I have asked this question of myself countless times over the past twenty-five years. I still do. I equate this toughness with the concept of “conscientious equity”. “Conscientious” because it is right. “Equity” because we all have ownership in doing the right thing. Yet, through some selfless mentoring by people who practiced conscientious equity by tapping into... Read More