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Jul 2018
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President Trump Wants a Dovish Fed Chair...

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This week, Joe, Scarlet and Julie spoke with Greg Valliere, Horizon Investments Chief Global Strategist, about the feud that he has been warning for months was inevitable: President Trump versus the Fed. Greg pointed out the irony: President Trump now wants a dovish Fed Chair. But, the President already had one. He fired her. Then Bloomberg Opinion Columnist Nathanial Bullard joined to discuss the Trump administration's latest environmental regulation rollback: revoking California's authority to set their own greenhouse gas emission standards. Sandy Darity, a professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, also joined to make the case for a federal jobs guarantee, and said even he is surprised at how much the policy idea is catching on.

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