Everything Suzanne Clark said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Clark: Biden administration regulatory overreach feels unprecedented to business leaders
“I think what's happening in the Biden administration is regulatory overreach that feels unprecedented to us.”
Clark: Companies must tell employees not to bring politics to work
“And my personal view is that we have to tell people you can't, right? We're a fifty-fifty country. You think you know what the person in the next cubicle thinks or the next Zoom box, but you might be wrong, right? And so how do we evolve to a place where we ca…”
Clark: Big Tech is the one advantage U.S. adversaries cannot match
“One of the things that concerns me is if you look at our big tech companies, it's the one thing our adversaries cannot beat us at. They have not been able to figure it out, right?”
Clark: Chinese officials believe the U.S. is decoupling, not de-risking
“The Chinese believe that we really are decoupling, not de-risking, despite the administration and Secretary Raimondo doing a good job of saying that's not true.”
Clark: Normal trade will always continue between the U.S. and China
“While there are really important red lines around national security and trade that should not happen with China, there's always this green lane of just normal trade that will happen between two huge economies.”
Clark: S&P 500 mentions of policy risk rose 30% over ten years
“We did a study of the S&P 500. We looked at their 10 case over 10 years, watched and categorized what they were naming as their biggest risks. And across a decade, the mentions of public policy risk went up almost 30%.”
Clark: Business is the sole trusted institution despite bipartisan political attacks
“What I hear from CEOs, I think privately they're getting really tired of the oxymoronic world they live in where the Edelman trust barometer will say business is the only institution that still has any trust. And yet you have politicians in both parties just b…”
Clark: Free markets naturally regulate corporate dominance over time
“I think the market takes care of things that get too big. The number of companies That are in the Fortune 500 today, that were there in the eighties, is much smaller than the average citizen believes it is.”
Clark: Innovation and business will solve education, housing, and healthcare challenges
“Educational opportunities for more people, housing for more people, healthcare for more people, that's going to be solved through innovation and technology and business, right?”
Clark: Housing shortage is the top issue for U.S. local chambers
“And I do think the housing shortage is underreported. When we talk to state and local chambers across the country, it's become their number one issue.”
Clark: Large and small businesses share identical core economic concerns
“To me, it's a little bit of a myth that they're that different. Their concerns are alike. Worker shortage, wage inflation, supply chain concerns. You know, you hear the geopolitical uncertainty. You hear the same concerns, no matter what the size of the busine…”
Clark: China's regulatory uncertainty makes business riskier for American companies
“We really believe that their regulatory uncertainty and their business climate uncertainty is making it riskier and more expensive to do business there.”
Clark: Swing elections cause government policy to shift dramatically every cycle
“If 10 of the last 12 elections have been swing elections, that means that government policy goes guardrail to guardrail every two to four years.”
Clark: 65% of small businesses feel healthy, but distrust national economy
“We're just out of the field with this quarterly poll we do with MetLife. 65% of small businesses said they feel really good about the health of their business. 65%. That same group of people, only 32% of them, felt good about the health of the overall economy.”