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Diane Brady

The art of debate, as not demonstrated by Senator Ted Cruz

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  • In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady on the art of persuasion. 
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  • Analyst notes from Goldman Sachs and Oxford Economics on the Fed, UBS on the Iran conflict.
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Good morning. As I listened to Sen. Ted Cruz talk to Tucker Carlson about the case for regime change in Iran, I had a flashback to my days on the college debating circuit. Through several years of judging and competing, I had a chance to see future leaders like Boris Johnson, Justin Trudeau, Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee, and Cruz. I say that not to brag—though I did once win Canada’s national debating championship by defending the right of the CFL to exist—but to share some lessons that I’ve learned from top debaters.

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