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In this episode of The Maritime Executive Magazine podcast, editor-in-chief Tony Munoz spoke with Dr...

Right pushing the republican leadership around or the hard left pushing the democratic leadership around. who really pushes the leadership around in this congress? i think jake may agree, it's the committee chairman, the ranking democrats on these committees who want a deal. they are the power players in congress, they have the speakers leer, they're trying to get a deal together. of course the bases have political influence but when it comes to how congress works, it's the people who understand the system who cut the deals. >> i just want to point out, bob, also, the juxtaposition of this dea...

2/3 the opposite think he is doing a bad job. don't believe what he says and think the russia investigation is important. the other factor in your question is hillary clinton was a deeply unpopular candidate. i think that he had an artificial bump because of that. the point here for the democrats, however, is they can't just simply run against trump. it won't be enough. we have had the largest peacetime expansion in job creation in the last seven, eight years since obama took over in 2009 and continuing through trump. the problem is that wages are going down now. the fact that you don't hear d...

A year, you are in the elite -- among the elite of wage earners. can these people afford it? can the economy afford it? we're told you raise taxes on the rich it will kill the economy and the markets. in the '90s that's what we heard. clinton raised taxes on the highest earners. they said it would crash the markets. we had the longest peacetime expansion, the s&p 500 tripled. eight years later the same people told us, hey, if we cut taxes on everybody, the economy will be great. we had the worst performance of the stock markets in decades and a pathetic expansion that ended in a major crash. s...