Managing Partner, Federal Financial Analytics
Managing partner of Federal Financial Analytics, a financial industry consultancy
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Karen Shaw Petrou
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FROM Karen Shaw Petrou
Which Way, L.A.?
Can a Broken Financial System Be Fixed? Where were the regulators? With an economy in meltdown and one financial scandal after another making breaking news, it's a question that won't go away. Were government watchdogs muzzled by de-regulation or just asleep on the job? Who was regulating whom? What kind of reform is needed to protect the economy from the free-wheeling dealing that led to widespread financial failures?
To the Point
Can a Broken Financial System Be Fixed? Where were the regulators? With an economy in meltdown and one financial scandal after another making breaking news, it's a question that won't go away. Were government watchdogs muzzled by de-regulation or just asleep on the job? Who was regulating whom? What kind of reform is needed to protect the economy from the free-wheeling dealing that led to widespread financial failures?
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Human Rights in the era of Donald Trump President Trump’s UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, said today the US might pull out of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Serious violators of human rights are members of the Council itself–and a US resignation could make things worse. Later on today’s show, now that he’s into his second term, comedian turned US Senator Al Franken is telling jokes again.
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What happens when America retreats from the world? Is President Trump taking his "America First" agenda to extremes, withdrawing the country from the international stage on trade and climate change, distancing America from its traditional allies across the Atlantic and even threatening to physically isolate the country through the building of a wall along its southern border? León Krauze guest hosts.
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The Trump agenda: where's the beef? President Trump says big things are happening. After celebrating a House bill on health care, he doesn’t yet have Senate agreement. With James Comey’s public testimony scheduled tomorrow, the President today tweeted his selection of a new FBI Director. Is the Chief Executive all style and no substance? Later, terror attacks in Iran and conflicting claims about who’s behind them.