Host Stephanie Flanders speaks with Joshua Green, national correspondent at Bloomberg Businessweek, and editor Laura Davison about the likelihood of a shutdown, its consequences for the government and for Americans—and whether anything can stop Musk’s efforts to shrink the government.

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Just as it took the British government a century to catch up to Jonathan Swift’s innovative person-to-person loan program, the U.S. government has been slow to react to crypto, creating bureaucratic and legal hurdles to growth in the industry. But with a new administration and a new Congress, the industry now feels there’s reason to be optimistic that regulatory clarity, and a new chapter in the story of crypto in America, is beginning.

This episode is sponsored by Coinbase.

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One month in, Wall Street’s view on Donald Trump is evolving. Guest host Nancy Cook, Bloomberg’s senior national political correspondent, speaks with chief Wall Street correspondent Sridhar Natarajan and finance reporter Hannah Levitt about how finance executives are feeling now.

“There is still broadly this palpable optimism,” says Levitt, “but it’s a bit more caveated.” Levitt and Natarajan explain those caveats, discussing what the likelihood of higher volatility throughout Trump’s second term means for the bottom lines of big Wall Street firms and unpack why a deregulatory agenda might have unforeseen consequences.

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On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to end Russia’s war on Ukraine in a day. Weeks into his presidency, that hasn’t happened. Now his decision to start negotiations with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin while demanding Europe bear the brunt of future aid to Ukraine has been met with shock—but not surprise.

In a bonus episode of Trumponomics, recorded at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, we discuss the cost of Trump’s about-face on American commitments and whether a continent beset by fiscal constraints and political division can go it alone. Alberto Nardelli, Bloomberg’s correspondent-at-large for Europe, and Antonio Barroso, senior geoeconomics analyst for Europe at Bloomberg Economics join host Stephanie Flanders.

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Bill Dudley, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and former New York Federal Reserve Bank president, and Bloomberg Economics Chief US Economist Anna Wong join Stephanie Flanders to discuss the Treasury secretary’s plan to reduce the deficit and its collision with economic reality.

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In a live taping before an audience in New York, host Stephanie Flanders was joined by Bloomberg political correspondent Nancy Cook and Bloomberg Opinion Senior Executive Editor Tim O’Brien to unpack the way in which US President Donald Trump is making tariff decisions during his chaotic first few weeks in office, whether he has a plan and who his most influential advisers might be.

For the second part of the conversation, Bloomberg TV anchor Katie Greifeld and senior editor Ed Harrison discuss how Trump’s economic policy is causing uncertainty among business leaders and why a key metric to look at is the 10-year Treasury rate.

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This week, we ask what it is exactly US President Donald Trump may be trying to accomplish with his tariff threats and trade wars. Stephanie Flanders, Bloomberg’s head of government and economics, is joined by Anna Wong, chief US economist at Bloomberg Economics, and Bloomberg reporter Shawn Donnan, who covers economics and trade policy, to discuss.

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On this week’s Trumponomics, we look at how Trump's immigration policies will affect the nation’s economy, and especially whether it will be good or bad for American workers. Oren Cass, joins host Stephanie Flanders and Bloomberg Opinion Senior Executive Editor Tim O’Brien.

Cass, formerly with the right-leaning Manhattan Institute and founder of the conservative think-thank American Compass, is author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America.

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