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The strength of the federal business is going to be a durable growth engine for C3. Uh there's multiple factors and I'm kind of related to my time in government. Uh and on the other side of this,…

Stephen Ehikian ·Chief Executive Officer AI ·Dec 2025

The biggest thing I would say is sales execution, uh and Tom hit on this last quarter, uh fell off. It was totally unacceptable. Uh and Tom would probably acknowledge that his uh health uh…

Stephen Ehikian ·Chief Executive Officer AI ·Dec 2025

President Trump's investment holdings are maintained exclusively in fully discretionary accounts managed by independent third-party institutions who have sole and exclusive authority over all…

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

African-Americans and Hispanics were just wiped out Hispanics more than any other because they were so invested in their housing uh and so invested in their mortgages and in their houses and if you…

Lisa Cook ·Governor ·Aug 2014

the signs of a breakup are becoming uh all the more obvious for the for the Euro Zone this is not a natural a natural currency Union they you you you're supposed to bond with uh countries that have…

Lisa Cook ·Governor ·Aug 2014

if they head into it looks like they're headed into a potential deflationary cycle that's very hard to get out of because consumers don't I mean if they think they can get it cheaper tomorrow they're…

Lisa Cook ·Governor ·Aug 2014

Europe went down the path of Greater austerity and prolonged their economic recovery and uh this is the end result and I mean they they've got to figure out which they want so they're either going to…

Lisa Cook ·Governor ·Aug 2014

Under four years of sleepy Joe Biden, not a single permit was approved for a new coal mining project, but in over one year of our administration we've already approved 76 between beautiful coal.

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

Today we're officially invoking the defense production act to save 13 coal plants in West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, north Dakota and Wisconsin.

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

These actions will support over 14,000 jobs and save the American people $50 billion in electricity costs.

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

As a result of the $700 million investment that I'm announcing today we will protect 14 coal plants and 42 coal mines, it's a tremendous number, and build two new coal plants and one new massive…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

Today we're taking historic action to bring down the cost of energy and cost of living for all Americans with the power of clean, beautiful coal. If you look at China, if you look at so many of the…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

Your fertilizer prices are going to go way down just like they were 4 months ago. Your fertilizer is down, your energy's down, your oil, your gas is all coming way down. And frankly, I thought it…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

We have a great gentleman coming in, Kevin War. He's going to do a fantastic job at the Fed. We're getting rid of too late.

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

In the old days, you know, if you had good job numbers, like great job numbers like they announced today, the stock market goes up. Today, everything is crazy. The whole world is crazy. So when you…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

After years of extensive work exploring how to embed AI into our underwriting workflow, we outlined our blueprint at our investor day in 2025. That work reinforced our conviction that AI has the…

Peter Zaffino ·Chief Executive Officer & Chairman AIG ·May 2026

The Lexington large account shared and layered business and excess and surplus lines which is less than 10% of our global property portfolio has been under significant pricing pressure over the last…

Peter Zaffino ·Chief Executive Officer & Chairman AIG ·May 2026

As we announced yesterday, the AIG board of directors approved an 11% increase in our quarterly dividend to 50 cents per share starting in the second quarter of 2026. This marks the fourth…

Peter Zaffino ·Chief Executive Officer & Chairman AIG ·May 2026

The direct impact on AIG is not material based on what we've seen to date, but we're not complacent. We're monitoring accumulation risk, adjusting underwriting guidelines where warranted, stress…

Peter Zaffino ·Chief Executive Officer & Chairman AIG ·May 2026

We had a very strong start to 2026 and delivered an exceptional first quarter, the strongest first quarter that we've seen since I've been at AIG.

Peter Zaffino ·Chief Executive Officer & Chairman AIG ·May 2026

I am not afraid of AI at all.

J. Gallagher ·Chairman & CEO AJG ·May 2026

It is absolutely not a threat to the brokerage world, in my opinion, and in particular, to Gallagher, and I'll tell you exactly why. After the big crash, Mike Prescher went home that night, and…

J. Gallagher ·Chairman & CEO AJG ·May 2026

We are leading the way and saying, 'Look, multiples got to come down.' And that's just a fact because we are not in the business of diluting our shareholders. So if our multiples down, we can't…

J. Gallagher ·Chairman & CEO AJG ·May 2026

Multiples got driven sky-high by private equity money. Of course, there was a time when I couldn't answer the phone that wasn't a private equity player trying to talk me into going private. I had my…

J. Gallagher ·Chairman & CEO AJG ·May 2026

This is a $7 trillion premium business globally. And that's Swiss Re numbers. And then you look at that, and you realize the impact that we have on society and spreading risk. And look at things like…

J. Gallagher ·Chairman & CEO AJG ·May 2026

we are increasing our full year 2022 comparable ffo guidance from 11.60 to 11.75 per share to the new range of 11.70 to 11.77 per share

David Simon ·Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & President SPG ·Sep 2022

we have no cash equity investment in spark and jc penny and in fact we have parlayed our spark investment into our investment in abg that is now worth over one billion dollars

David Simon ·Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & President SPG ·Sep 2022

the higher income consumer is still spending money and if anything i think if you go back in history our business and our industry actually tend to outperform during recessionary environments

David Simon ·Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & President SPG ·Sep 2022

our business and our industry actually tend to outperform during recessionary environments if to the extent that we get there and maybe we're in one maybe we're not primarily because the big ticket…

David Simon ·Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & President SPG ·Sep 2022

while other companies in our sector are paying little or no dividends and issuing equity we are repeatedly raising our dividend and buying our stock back we have now returned more than 37 billion…

David Simon ·Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & President SPG ·Sep 2022