You to our event with the assistant secretary of defense for into security affairs. We have been fortunate to engage him on several aspects of our policy research over the past decade and while he is serving in the Administration Since 2017 and randy thank you for your service to our country an Important Role you play in the administration. Randall shriver was appointed as assistant secretary of defense i President Donald Trump on january 82018 previously having served as Deputy Assistant secretary for Pacific Affairs under which portfolio he covered china taiwan hong kong and australia all the easy stuff. Earlier he held the role of chief of staff to the deputy secretary of state from 2,122,003 and served as an activeduty nato Intelligence Officer deployed in operation Desert Shield and desert storm. Beyond his government career randy has been a leading thinker on wings of issues in u. S. China relationships over two decades and a robust voice on the future of that relationship asking
Didnt think it was not just theoretically possible, but actually feasible for the vast majority of people to succeed at managing their own money. Okay. So if thats the case, then why is investing so darn difficult . How come so many People Struggle to make money in the stock market . How the heck can i believe its possible for you to beat the averages, the big benchmarks like the s p 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial average when so millennium and Mutual Fund Managers fail to do so. Simple. You can do it. But you have to do it the right way. One of the biggest obstacles to successful investing is a lack of clarity about just what investing is supposed to mean. I have seen countless people try to follow the conventional wisdom about Money Management only to have their investments wiped out because the conventional wisdom is wrong. And the worst part is those people had no idea they were making a mistake. They thought they were being responsible. In other words, to borrow a phrase from Co
Thats why tonight i want to demystify the concept of longterm investing, an idea that has been misinterpreted so often in so many ways that its become more of a hindrance than a help for most of us. So listen up, tonight setting you straight. Here on mad money were about longterm investing, often mischaracterized. There is a serious problem with this notion. It goes like this. Too often people let the concept of longterm investing get in the way of investing. If you think longterm investing is about making boatloads of money over years, decade, each lifetimes, im on board, and thats something i can teach you how to do using the disciplines that allowed me to make fortunes for my already rich partners back in my Old Hedge Fund where i ran a million dollars. However, ive seen people in longterm investing as an excuse, an alibi either for poor performance the house of pain or for not paying attention to what they own. You often hear that you shouldnt worry about your losses or the profits
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The president , this is part of his legacy. He hoped to end two wars by the time he leaves office. As with speak, more than 3,000 troops in afghanistan, 9800 in afghanistan. That will stay there through 2015. 5500, that will stay there as you take a look at the podium, as president obama announces hell maintain current troop levels in afghanistan this year and next year as well. This largely, jim sciutto, on the advice of military officials who have been studying the situation on the ground. The u. S. Military wanted this decision. Why . Because of the reality on the ground. The fall of kunduz shows the strength of the taliban. Its something they knew before the fall of kunduz. The taliban is active in many parts of the country, because they have been virtually cleared out from and getting closer kabul as well. They saw that reality on the ground communicated to the president. This is not just an extension of troop presence but also an expansion. It is isis on the ground there. The adm