Neal Asbury Addresses The Global Summit: What Will It Take To Co-create A Sustainable Future?
The Global Summit is the transformational event of 2010, uniting influential leaders with those working on the front lines of the most critical social, economic, and environmental issues of our time. San Francisco, CA – November 7-10, 2010, in its second biennial meeting in San Francisco, The Global Summit (www.theglobalsummit.org), unites the most powerful visionary experts, grass-roots change makers, enlightened businesses and organizations to catalyze a whole system approach to a sustainable world. This three-day interactive symposium will deliver hands-on solutions, spur local action, share what works best and disseminate the most effective sustainable technologies on earth. The Global Summit will be held at the Fort Mason Center, Herbst Pavilion, preceded by a green carpet Reception... Read More
The Myth of Free Trade
The concept of free trade is like a unicorn, they are lovely things to imagine but they don’t exist. The barriers posed by foreign governments, whether in the form of tariffs, currency manipulation, excessive bureaucracy, product certifications, market distortions, corruption, or (as is usually the case) some combination of all of these, make it impossible for a seller of a product in one country to easily market that product in another country. Therefore, while one hears the term “free trade” bandied about with great frequency, especially among global entrepreneurs, the concept is essentially a myth. I do know of one laudable – and very real – example of free trade, though. It happens in a market that forbids tariffs of any kind for any product or service, one where it is impossible... Read More
Why Are We Nuts About Sanctions?
In the past fifty years, the United States has enacted more sanctions than any country. In fact, no one comes remotely close. We have sanctioned more than 80 countries over 175 times. If we include “soft” sanctions such as denying export financing through EXIM Bank, the number would be much higher. Our sanctions threaten two-thirds of the world’s population. Over half our sanctions have occurred in the last decade. We have gone sanction nuts. And now the House passed legislation to put pressure on China to stop its deliberate policy of undervaluing the yuan to give its exports an unfair advantage in global markets. Despite the yuan’s modest gains against the dollar since Beijing allowed more flexibility in mid-June, International Monetary Fund economists estimate the yuan... Read More
Neal Asbury Interviewed on Newsmax.com
Asbury: Global Commerce Does More Good than Politicians In his first Newsmax.com interview, Neal Asbury speaks with correspondent Kathleen Walter. Neal Asbury, author of Conscientious Equity, contends that a Department for Global Trade would level the playing field for America in world commerce. Moving the responsibilities for international trade from congress to a consolidated department would increase efficiency and profitably for American companies and create more jobs, Asbury says. var params = { 'allowfullscreen': 'true', 'allowscriptaccess': 'always', 'wmode': 'transparent' }; var attributes = { 'id': 'video0', 'name': 'video0'}; var flashvars = { 'file' : 'http://www.conscientiousequity.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Neal-Choppy.mp4', 'width' : '400', 'height' : '280', 'controlbar'... Read More
Small Businesses Being Thrown Under the Bus While Dems Try to Save Their Own Skins.
Most legislators in this country agree that small business is the lifeblood of job creation. So I’m having a hard time understanding why Democrats are choosing to run for the hills rather than extend the Bush tax cuts which would continue to provide small business the money they need to grow and hire. Democrats are hiding because they want to postpone any action on extending the tax cuts until after the November election as they are scared it will be seen by voters as a tax hike. Which it is! This issue is critical for small business. While Democrats gear up to vote down the tax cut extension after November 2 (although many are pushing back from Nancy Pelosi’s strong arm tactics), the permanent extension of the Bush tax cuts is favored by scores of small to medium-sized businesses... Read More
Job Growth Going in the Wrong Direction
For some time I’ve been suggesting that the unemployment rate is higher than what is announced by the Obama Administration. I had it pegged at closer to 20 percent when you factor in those who are under-employed or just stopped looking. Now a September Gallup Poll bears out my contention that the stimulus package has failed to create jobs, and unemployment is heading up, not down. The Gallup Poll has found that unemployment is at 10.1% in September, and that underemployment is at 18.8%, up from 18.6% at the end of August. Gallup released data that shows unemployment stayed at more than 10 percent from January 2010 through the end of May of 2010. Then it leveled off at more than nine percent through July and August, heading to more than 10 percent in September. Certain groups continue... Read More
Our Crumbling Infrastructure is Another Sign of a Crumbling Administration
A frequent guest on my nationally syndicated radio show — “Neal Asbury’s Truth for America” – is Paul Anderson, most recently a Senior Fellow at the United States Congress, Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure and a former Commissioner-Designated Chairman at the Federal Maritime Commission. Paul shared with me a first-hand perspective on his participation with the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, working with US Representative John Mica (FL-R), the Ranking Republican member of the Committee. Congressman Mica has also been a guest on “Neal Asbury’s Truth for America”. Paul has a high regard for Representative Mica, characterizing him as “a tireless proponent of improving our country’s transportation system to handle our nation’s... Read More
Neal Asbury Live on Fox News Radio Rumble 9-28-10
“Fox & Friends” invited American entrepreneur, talk radio host, and author, Neal Asbury to appear for a third time on their Radio Rumble segment. Neal Asbury spoke with Gretchen Carlson during the “Radio Rumble” segment covering “Rahm Emanuel Running for Chicago Mayor” and comments given by Bill Clinton regarding the “Tea Party.” Neal was joined by Charles Ellison, talk radio host from Washington D.C. and Howie Carr, talk radio host from Boston. Read More
Obama Turns Blind Eye to Union-Backed Card Check
Despite Widespread Opposition From Business and Congress Obama Turns Blind Eye to Union-Backed Card Check If there’s one thing we’ve learned about President Obama it is once he proposes an idea, no matter how unpopular it is, he is unwilling to listen to the people. The Cap and Tax bill, even though it doesn’t have the votes in the Senate and is derided by members of both parties, is still on the active list. Now we learn the Card Check bill, which gives labor unions the power to create a union through a simple majority via an open vote that intimidates workers, is alive and flying under the radar. How can this be? All you have to do is recognize that the President appointed Craig Becker, a union lawyer with deep sympathies for the unions, to head the National Labor Relations... Read More
What Took So Long to Help Small Business?
If this nation is looking for an issue that will get bipartisan support, that issue is being debated right now: it’s the Small Business Bill. For two years, President Obama has virtually ignored small business – the source of 70 percent of new jobs — but suddenly he’s paying some attention. The result is that it’s a rare time in Congress that both parties actually support a bill. Can you imagine how the toxic environment in Congress would have changed if he had supported these and other small business initiatives at the very onset of his administration? Can you imagine how many jobs could have been created over the last two years? It’s as if the President has awoken from a two-year coma. After stonewalling shouts from the business community and some legislators, the... Read More
