The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Lisa Shalett, CIO Morgan Stanley, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Bloomberg. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ This is Masters in business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio Barry Ritholtz: This week, really an extra, extra special guest. Lisa Shallet, chief Investment Officer at Morgan Stanley has had […]
Neal McCluskey As discussion about ending the US Department of Education continues, we now look at where to put civil rights enforcement, covered by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), if the department is dismantled. A few days ago, Andrew Gillen did the same thing with student loans. Importantly, unlike student lending and almost everything else the Department of Education does, under the 14th Amendment civil rights enforcement is a constitutionally legitimate federal function. Washington should have a role […]
While studying scholastic theology when I was preparing for the priesthood, St. John Henry Newman inspired me to examine early apostolic Catholic spirituality. Then, over 35 years ago now, I sought out a life of semi-solitude to intensify this search and practice contemplation, and I rediscovered the sublime spirituality that we have so recently lost. By we, I mean more specifically born Catholics, for whom the faith has become little more than a philosophy of life since the heretical Quietism of the 17th century nearly succeeded in removing contemplative prayer from Catholic spirituality, […]
O ministro Alexandre de Moraes, do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), deu prazo para a Procuradoria-Geral da República (PGR) analisar um pedido de prisão preventiva contra o ex-presidente Jair Bolsonaro, por suposta obstrução de Justiça. A ação se deu depois da manifestação pela anistia no Rio de Janeiro, e foi movida pela vereadora Liana Cirne, do PT de Recife. Na ocasião, Duda Salabert (PDT-MG), parlamentar trans, acionou a Justiça com um processo semelhante ao de Liana. Em 19 de […]
Erec Smith On March 25, Free Black Thought live-streamed a forum hosted by TakeCharge, a nonprofit committed to demonstrating that America offers opportunities for all, regardless of race or social status. TakeCharge encourages Black Americans to reclaim their cultural identity through faith, family, and education, emphasizing personal and community responsibility. This forum, titled “The Crisis of the Black Family,” was moderated by TakeCharge Founder and President Kendall Qualls and his wife, board member Sheila Qualls. A panel of 12 […]
“There are no conservatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts” – Steven B., PhD, Harvard, Brandeis, phone conversation Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, PhD, MIT, is a distinguished research biological-engineer and developer of artificial intelligence systems based in the high-tech and bio-tech corridors of Cambridge, Massachusetts who ran for president in the 2024 election. Dr. Shiva also sponsors the political awareness and self-health Truth-Freedom-Heath Movement. Below I evaluate the radical Shiva political awareness movement from a conservative perspective rather than lower myself to […]