Franklin Street Policy Group

Franklin Street Policy Group We gather NYC-based business & policy professionals at the intersection of global business, security, and development to tackle global challenges together.

Our participants are committed to working together across sectors to promote economic opportunity, strengthen stability, and bolster human dignity. We are an accessible group that reaches across and beyond political philosophies and welcomes everyone from Wall Street suits to Silicon Alley upstarts to Brooklynite social entrepreneurs.

Ghadir Taher left Atlanta to help the country of her birth rebuild from the wreckage of war. But the Syria she once knew...
01/02/2020

Ghadir Taher left Atlanta to help the country of her birth rebuild from the wreckage of war. But the Syria she once knew no longer existed...

On a busy sidewalk, no one noticed the man pushing toward the clutch of Americans. Turnbull believes that Ghadir called out his name in a warning as she stepped toward the man. It was then that a fireball consumed the group.

“I believe that Ghadir was an angel,” Turnbull said. “Who steps between me and a su***de bomber?”

Sometimes, Ghadir Taher comes to her mother at night — in the darkness in the family’s small, tidy home, surrounded by trees off an Atlanta freeway.

"The first signs that something strange was happening occurred on Christmas Eve. At 8:30 p.m. an officer of the Royal Ir...
12/25/2019

"The first signs that something strange was happening occurred on Christmas Eve. At 8:30 p.m. an officer of the Royal Irish Rifles reported to headquarters: “Germans have illuminated their trenches, are singing songs and wishing us a Happy Xmas. Compliments are being exchanged but am nevertheless taking all military precautions.” Further along the line, the two sides serenaded each other with carols—the German 'Silent Night' being met with a British chorus of 'The First Noel'—and scouts met, cautiously, in no man’s land, the shell-blasted waste between the trenches. The war diary of the Scots Guards records that a certain Private Murker 'met a German Patrol and was given a glass of whisky and some ci**rs, and a message was sent back saying that if we didn’t fire at them, they would not fire at us.'"

It has become a great legend of World War I. But what really happened when British and German troops emerged from their trenches that Christmas Day?

We need a massive climate war effort—now. Only major spending on clean energy R&D can save us.
12/17/2019

We need a massive climate war effort—now. Only major spending on clean energy R&D can save us.

Only major spending on clean energy R&D can save us.

Economist and Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains the hidden weaknesses of the American economy."The real keys to...
12/09/2019

Economist and Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains the hidden weaknesses of the American economy.

"The real keys to growth and prosperity are education, scientific breakthroughs, and advances in our understanding of how to organize large groups of people so that they might cooperate better. Economies that are guided by the rule of law and democracies based on the separation of powers are examples of profound achievements in social organization. The main reason standards of living are so much higher today than they were, say, 250 years ago is that we have built stable institutions that promote human creativity and enable people to live up to their potential."

Economist and Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains the hidden weaknesses of the American economy.

Many thanks to those who joined Miki Noguchi and Carol Marie Tuite last week for our policy cocktail hour focused on The...
10/29/2019

Many thanks to those who joined Miki Noguchi and Carol Marie Tuite last week for our policy cocktail hour focused on The Economy’s Main Squeeze. We loved gathering with our regular policy-minded folks as well as meeting and hearing from so many new people!

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Many thanks to those who joined Franklin Street Policy Group for our policy cocktail hour focused on The Economy’s Main Squeeze. We loved gathering with our regular policy-minded folks as well as meeting and hearing from so many new people! Click through to see the articles that i

For years, wealthy visitors to Baker’s Bay could ignore the precarious living conditions in the Mudd. But now, in the af...
10/21/2019

For years, wealthy visitors to Baker’s Bay could ignore the precarious living conditions in the Mudd. But now, in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, that’s no longer possible. The shantytown has been destroyed. Many people were killed; the rest are homeless. The devastating human toll has exposed an economic dependency — there’s no one to repair the mansions.

The rich and famous of Baker’s Bay were served by the workers of the Mudd. As they look to rebuild, they’ll need them more than ever.

As cities across the country gentrify — and schools in those cities slowly begin to diversify — communities are struggli...
10/21/2019

As cities across the country gentrify — and schools in those cities slowly begin to diversify — communities are struggling to ensure that all parents have an equal voice. Parent organizations have emerged as a striking, and consequential, example of the cultural, economic and language divides among families.

In the District, mothers and fathers meet to bridge the divide.

These statistics are sobering, and they imply that there is a great deal of work to be done to improve the prospects of ...
10/21/2019

These statistics are sobering, and they imply that there is a great deal of work to be done to improve the prospects of the American middle class.

The challenge will be to improve those prospects in the face of changes in trade and technology that are destroying some jobs while creating others, yawning racial disparities, uneven economic growth from one place to another, and massive changes in gender roles and the family.

Eleanor Krause and Isabel Sawhill list seven reasons why the American middle class is in trouble.

In the midst of the nation’s longest economic expansion, the separation between rich and poor is at a five-decade high.
10/21/2019

In the midst of the nation’s longest economic expansion, the separation between rich and poor is at a five-decade high.

Amid the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, the gap between the country's wealthiest and poorest has never been bigger.

TONIGHT! Join us in Union Square to meet and mingle with policy-minded folks and indulge in your best barstool quarterba...
10/21/2019

TONIGHT! Join us in Union Square to meet and mingle with policy-minded folks and indulge in your best barstool quarterbacking on the global economy.

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Join Franklin Street Policy Group for a cocktail hour to meet and mingle while discussing the evening's theme of global inequality.

The key to understanding the Rojava project, as those involved often refer to it, is the notion of “confederalism.” In t...
10/11/2019

The key to understanding the Rojava project, as those involved often refer to it, is the notion of “confederalism.” In this form of government, local units – in this case, Kurdistan’s “autonomous regions” – come together in a federation yet retain a great deal of autonomy.

Confederalism sets the Kurds apart from almost every other government in the Middle East.

Since defending northern Syria from the Islamic State, Kurdish people have established an egalitarian society where women are equal, democracy is direct and religious freedom is guaranteed.

"It turns out the West’s entire political theory about China has been spectacularly wrong. China has engineered ferociou...
10/10/2019

"It turns out the West’s entire political theory about China has been spectacularly wrong. China has engineered ferocious economic growth in the past half century, lifting hundreds of millions of its citizens out of miserable poverty. But China’s growth did not come at any cost to the regime’s political chokehold.

A darker truth is now dawning on the world: China’s economic miracle hasn’t just failed to liberate Chinese people. It is also now routinely corrupting the rest of us outside of China."

We thought economic growth and technology would liberate China. Instead, it corrupted us.

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