Washington Welcomes

Less than two weeks before Election Day, The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. Chairman David Rubenstein interviewed a pre-election panel of the nation’s leading political journalists including:Kasie Hunt, Anchor and Chief National Affairs Analyst, CNNNikole Killion, Congressional Correspondent, CBS NewsBen Smith, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, SemaforJonathan Swan, White House Reporter, The New York TimesThe panel shared their insights on the upcoming U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives and gubernatorial races, including the recent poll results, key voter issues, expected voter turnout, mail-in ballots and how the outcomes of this election and the resulting balance of power in the House and Senate could affect the remainder of President Trump’s term and the 2028 presidential election.

As America marks its 250th anniversary, the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. hosted The Declaration of Independence at 250 with Chairman David M. Rubenstein and Michael Auslin, author of National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America.In this episode, Rubenstein and Auslin trace how the Declaration came together, the key figures who shaped it, and the compromises Thomas Jefferson and his colleagues navigated to put it on paper. They also examine why its most enduring passages still resonate 250 years later.

Economic Club Chair of the Global Initiative Barbara Humpton, CEO of USA Rare Earth, Inc interviewed Tom Barkin, President and CEO of Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond on on the current state of the U.S. economy.

The Honorable Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States and Founder of Advancing American Freedom, spoke with #EconClubDC Chairman David M. Rubenstein on his on his recently published book, “What Conservatives Believe.”

Today, Alan M. Garber, President, Harvard University sat down with Economic Club Chairman David M. Rubenstein.They discussed how the nation’s leading academic institutions are navigating a period of rapid technological and financial change.