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Apr 2025
23m 8s

Wall Street vs the White House

Financial Times & Pushkin Industries
About this episode

The current administration rode in on a wave of support from America’s traders, lenders and money managers. But that might be changing. Today on the show, Rob Armstrong talks to the FT’s US finance editor, James Fontanella-Khan, about what the titans of Wall Street really think about President Donald Trump. Also they go long AC Milan and short the market. 


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