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The CEOs of Tesla, Uber, and Pepsi have joined President-elect Donald Trump's "Strategic and Policy Forum":
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped three additional high-profile chief executives including Tesla's Elon Musk to join a group that will meet regularly to give input on job creation and the economy.
Trump announced the first batch of CEOs for his "strategic and policy forum" on Dec. 2. The group is led by Stephen Schwarzman, the chief executive of Blackstone. Trump's transition team now said the group would expand to include Tesla's Musk, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, and Pepsi chief Indra Nooyi.
From the article at The Wrap:
Trump announced the initial 16 members earlier this month, and the group will be chaired by Blackstone CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman. According to a press release distributed by Trump's transition team, "Members of the Forum will be charged with providing their individual views to the President — informed by their unique vantage points in the private sector — on how government policy impacts economic growth, job creation and productivity."
Also at WSJ (paywalled).
(Score: 0, Redundant) by khallow on Sunday December 18 2016, @12:11AM
For example, if some pundit bloviates [soylentnews.org]:
In fact, the central tenet of New Deal competition policy was not big or small government; it was distrust of concentrations of power and conflicts of interest in the economy. . The New Deal divided power, pitting faction against other faction, a classic Jefferson-Madison approach to controlling power (think Federalist Paper No. 10).
Then they should have been aware of well-known New Deal policies that didn't do that, such as my example, the National Industrial Recovery Act which was a huge power grab by FDR which ultimately was blocked by the Supreme Court, or the subsequent attempt to pack the Supreme Court with cronies when the Supreme Court turned out to be such an obstacle. Or if someone bloviates [soylentnews.org]:
These top-of-their-profession projects show that the driver to bring artificial intelligence into any field isn't the amount of labor, but rather the cost of that labor. A lawyer costs fifty times more per hour than a retail worker and so is that many times more likely to find themselves with an AI competitor.
while ignoring that they're speaking of vaporware (IBM Watson).
There's a pattern to stuff (you can thumb through this list for many such examples) that triggers the "obvious rebuttal" phrase: bloviation about stuff while ignoring something blindingly obvious. Hence the rebuttal which is... obvious.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @05:44AM
OMG! You have exactly zero self-awareness.
Do you dream of origami unicorns?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @09:59PM
> Or if someone bloviates
If bloviation is what it takes for you to go full autistic in a reply, then you should be drowned in the infinite recursion of criticizing yourself because, damn every single one of your "obvious rebuttals" is a freaking poster child for bloviation.