PAST EVENTS
Screening and Discussion of The Panama Papers
A riveting insider account of the story hundreds of journalists risked their lives to break, The Panama Papers, will take you behind the groundbreaking revelations of one of the biggest global corruption scandals in history — a vast a coordinated scheme by the world’s elite.
The Common Good is proud to present a screening and discussion of The Panama Papers moderated by Stephanie Ruhle with Kevin Hall, Robert Friedman, and Alex Winter. A riveting insider account of the story hundreds of journalists risked their lives to break, The Panama Papers, will take you behind the groundbreaking revelations of one of the biggest global corruption scandals in history — a vast a coordinated scheme by the world’s elite.
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The Panama Papers is a feature documentary that charts the story of the massive data leak that exposed the largest global corruption scandal in history. Hundreds of journalists around the globe worked in secret, at great personal risk, to reveal a scandal involving corrupt power brokers, the uber rich, elected officials, dictators, cartel bosses, athletes and celebrities who had used the Panamanian law firm of Mossack Fonseca to hide their money for any number of illegal reasons. The reports detailed tax evasion, fraud, cronyism, bribing government officials, election meddling, and murder. The investigation proved that the system is rigged, and cracked the vault of well-kept secrets and ill-gotten wealth, revealing vast and coordinated corruption among the world’s elite. The significance for the average, tax paying, law-abiding citizen is enormous; with the leaks showing that at least $32 trillion was hiding in more than 80 tax havens in 2010 alone. But breaking the story was only the beginning. There was immediate blowback from many of the named and accused, who are using every tactic imaginable to silence the journalists.
Stephanie Ruhle authors “MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle” and “MSNBC Live with Velshi & Ruhle.” Previously, Ruhle served as anchor and managing editor for Bloomberg Television and editor-at-large for Bloomberg NEws. She has interviewed industry titans such as Donald Trump, Jamie Dimon, Martha Steward, and Al Gore. Ruhle produced and hosted the documentary Haiti: Open For Business? and participated in Sharkland: A Mission Blue & Fusion Expedition. Ruhle is a member of the board of trustees for Girls Inc. NYC and was honored as one of their Women of the Year in 2016
Kevin Hall is a senior investigator and chief economics correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers. He shared the 2016 Pulitzer Price as part of the Panama Papers team, and is a 2010 Pulitzer finalist and Loeb Award winner for reporting on Wall Street and the financial crisis. From 1999 to 2005 Hall was Knight Ridder’s Brazil-based South America bureau chief, and won the Sigma Delta Chi for BEst Foreign Correspondence in 2004.
Robert Friedman is founder and CEO of Bungalow, and has held an array of senior executive positions including President of Radical Media and Entertainment, Co-Chairman of New Line Cinema, and President of New Line Television. Bungalows’ credits include Emmy Award winning GIVE. The Panama Papers adds to his extensive documentary list, most recently including Under African Skies, Spring Broke with Alex Gibney, We The People and Paradise Lost with Joe Berlinger. His industry honors include being named ADWEEK’s “Media Man of the Year.”
Alex Winter entered show business as a child actor and came to prominence starring in movies such as The Lost Boys. He has directed three narrative features (Freaked, Fever, and Smosh: The Movie) and hundreds of award-winning television commercials and music videos. His VH1 Rock Doc “Downloaded” earned worldwide critical acclaim. Winter’s latest award-winning documentary “Deep Web” premiered at SXSW and opened wide as the #1 documentary on iTunes.
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Economic Perils, Reeling Markets, Fed Action, Tariff Wars
The Common Good was proud to present a very important discussion with Byron Wien and Joseph Zidle of Blackstone’s Private Wealth Solutions. Two of Wall Street’s most respected investment advisors will sketch out the economic outlook for 2019 and projections regarding the volatile stock market amid rising risks stemming from tariffs, politics, Fed rates, and global turmoil.
The Common Good was proud to present a very important discussion with Byron Wien and Joseph Zidle of Blackstone’s Private Wealth Solutions. Two of Wall Street’s most respected investment advisors will sketch out the economic outlook for 2019 and projections regarding the volatile stock market amid rising risks stemming from tariffs, politics, Fed rates, and global turmoil. If you are concerned about your 401K, real estate or investment portfolio, or your business growth, listen up. They have some very strong and surprising predictions.
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Byron Wien is Vice Chairman of Private Wealth Solutions where he acts as a senior adviser to both the firm and its clients in analyzing economic, social and political trends to assess the direction of financial markets and thus help guide investment and strategic decisions. Wien is a distinguished advisor on investment decisions - named one of the most influential people on Wall Street by New York magazine, ranked the No. 1 strategist by SmartMoney.com, recognized on Smart Money Power 30 list of Wall Street’s most influential thinkers, and named by First Call as the most widely read analyst on Wall Street, Wien was Chief Investment Strategist for Pequot Capital and before that served for 21 years as Chief (later Senior) U.S. Investment Strategist at Morgan Stanley. In 1995, Wien co-authored a book with George Soros on the legendary investor’s life and philosophy, Soros on Soros — Staying Ahead of the Curve. The New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA) presented Wien with a lifetime achievement award in 2008. Wien received an AB with honors from Harvard College and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School
Joseph Zidle is a Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist in the Private Wealth Solutions group. Previously, he worked at Richard Bernstein Advisors, an independent investment advisor, where he was responsible for portfolio strategy, asset allocation, investment management and marketing to major wirehouses and independent RIAs. Zidle previously spent nearly a decade at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, most recently serving as head of Investment Strategy for Global Wealth Management and Deputy Director of the Research Investment Committee, where he was responsible for creating and communicating global investment strategies to the firm’s private client division across all major investment disciplines. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and History from Emory University. From 1993-2001, he served as a specialist in military intelligence for the U.S. Army Reserves.
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