MGA’a Alex Brill on WXTK’s ‘Something More with Chris Boyd’

Aug 18, 2018 | Interviews

In the ‘Something More with Chris Boyd’ interview, Brill discusses the state of the economy.

MGA’s Alex Brill on CNBC’s Squawk Box

Jul 9, 2018 | Interviews

“…. There are specific issues with regards to our trade relationship with China. But not only with China, with other of our major trading partners around the world. We are better off with good intellectual property laws. We are better off with lower tariff and non-tariff barriers. We need a process that takes us from where we are forward and not backwards, of course.”

MGA’s Alex Brill on White House Chronicle

Jul 6, 2018 | Interviews

Brill said, “If we take a market-based approach, which we think is a conservative strategy to addressing climate change, we want to use price signals, and a carbon tax is a price signal. It negates the need for…the regulatory toolbox that’s currently being deployed…and allows the market to find…the most efficient way to get emissions down.”

Discussing South Dakota v. Wayfair: Brill on CNBC’s ‘Closing Bell’

Jun 21, 2018 | Interviews

On CNBC’s ‘Closing Bell,’ Alex Brill discusses the US Supreme Court’s ruling in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. to require out-of-state sellers to collect the same sales tax that in-state resellers must collect.

MGA’s Alex Brill on CNBC’s Squawk Box

Apr 6, 2018 | Interviews

“The trade news is a negative at the moment. Going forward I don’t think this is the way to grow the economy by slapping tariffs on the way that we’ve seen. Whether this is strategic or not is yet to be determined. Whether there will be some grand deal that’s going to be worked. But this is clearly something that should be concerning to employers. Not just those guys who are directly on the list today, but really who is safe? Some industries might be. Maybe it’s the hospitals, some really domestic type industries that don’t care so much about what is happening in our trade patterns. But I think a lot of folks are rightfully concerned about a new uncertainty in public policy.”

MGA’s Alex Brill on CNBC’s Squawk Box

Mar 28, 2018 | Interviews

“There is a real wide variation when we think about how this epidemic has affected different parts of the country…. What we tried to do is allocate these costs by state and even by county. And what we find in that result is in a per capita basis, places like District of Columbia, New Hampshire, Connecticut, these are really leading states in these non-mortality related costs. When we think about total costs, meaning adding in the cost of lost life, West Virginia just shoots to the top of the list.”