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World Service,06 Feb 2017,17 mins

Trump: Making Finance Great Again?

Business Daily

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President Trump is taking the axe to the Dodd-Frank Act, financial rules designed to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. Linda Yueh, professor of economics at London Business School and Pippa Malmgrem, a former financial policy advisor to President George W Bush, discuss how vulnerable that leaves the US financial system to another shock. Plus, Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times finds out that when it comes to business writing, boring is good. (Picture: Trader wears a DOW 20,000 baseball cap on the New York Stock Exchange trading; Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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