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Susanne Craig, an investigative reporter at the New York Times and one of the reporters who broke the story on Trump's tax fraud, and POLITICO's media reporter, Jack Shafer, join POLITICO's Ben White to discuss how the tax story came together – and how it landed once it was published. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alexander Panetta, editor of POLITICO Pro Canada, and South China Morning Post U.S. correspondent Owen Churchill join POLITICO's Ben White to discuss the implications of the USMCA – and how it’s being viewed in China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Larry Kudlow, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the NEC, discusses the economy, the new NAFTA, and what life is like inside the White House with POLITICO's Ben White in front of a live audience at the annual meeting of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo examines the banking industry 10 years after the financial crisis with POLITICO's Ben White and Victoria Guida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial columnist at the New York Times and author of “Too Big to Fail: How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System — and Themselves,” talks with POLITICO’s Ben White about how close the financial system came to collapse, and how it felt to have a front-row seat. POLITICO's Victoria Guida explains how as the financial crisis shook the nation, Trump's team saw a payoff. As financial crisis shook the nation, Trump’s team saw payoff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As talks between the U.S. and Canada over a new North American Free Trade Agreement head into crunch time in Washington this week, the latest POLITICO Money podcast takes you inside the room for the high-stakes talks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The former New York mayor’s letter goes against the State Department stance on corruption in Bucharest. Trump lawyer Giuliani got paid to lobby Romanian president Giuliani got paid for advocacy in Romania Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Trump's recent criticism of the Federal Reserve is totally precedented. Politico's Victoria Guida joins Ben White to explain the danger in political meddling on monetary policy. Plus, why the Fed turns off internet access for reporters writing about rate hikes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While some firms see a boost from the president’s aggressive trade tactics, others find patience running thin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

POLITICO’s Mike Grunwald joins Ben to talk about the Gateway Project, a $30 billion infrastructure plan that would include a new $11 billion tunnel under the Hudson between New Jersey and New York for passenger trains. Follow MT’s playlist on Spotify. The Tunnel That Could Break New York Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scott Lincicome’s sings the benefits of free trade as a scholar at the Cato Institute. But a cheeky t-shirt has traveled just as far and wide as any white paper he’s written. Scott joins Ben White to size up what will come of the trade spat with China, and explains why free traders are winning so much they ought to be sick of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Economist and unrepentant Red Sox fan Megan Greene tells you everything you need to know but were afraid to ask about U.S. financial health-- what's really behind the uptick in growth, how long the happy days will last, and what's likely to trigger the next recession. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

POLITICO's Andrew Hanna says long before Uber and Airbnb, Hollywood conquered the gig economy-- with an assist from Ronald Reagan. Hear how Dracula and Groucho Marx set in motion a decades-long struggle for worker benefits that's especially relevant in the age of the side hustle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ten years after the financial crisis, Congress is talking about relaxing some aspects of Dodd-Frank. But one person's "tweak" is another person's "Are you nuts?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Investment adviser Richard Bernstein joins Ben to talk bulls, bears, and the tax cut leakage effect. He also explains why watching inflation is like watching paint dry, and why Wall Street's bull market is still bucking mean and dirty, despite trade disputes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Google is building a city of the future in Toronto, with self-driving cars, delivery robots, and snow-melting sidewalks. But will it also know what you did last night? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dairyman Pete Wiersma shares a few hard economic realities from the pastures of Idaho: a tightening labor pool and little control over milk prices. Then economist Mark Zandi explains how reduced immigration and escalating trade spats could make things worse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben White and POLITICO's Doug Palmer tick down the list of trade tiffs, brawls and all-out steel cage matches currently underway by the Trump administration. Then Marianne LeVine weighs in with a look at a sector that's actually winning as trade disputes simmer over: lobbyists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) takes the Trump administration to task on trade, describing a "punch your friends in the nose" approach that could hurt jobs and rile markets. He also updates Politico's Ben White on efforts to block the Commerce Department's plan to throw a lifeline to China's ZTE. But most importantly, he reports on the size of the crowds celebrating the Stanley Cup outside his office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben White sits down with Politico's Colin Wilhelm to check on his Bitcoin portfolio -- 0.003 percent of one coin. Bad news: it's lost about half its value. Colin explains why, and the challenges ahead, including looming regulation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk joins Ben to talk about what it was like to be at the negotiating table, tactics of successful negotiation and what he thinks of trade under President Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, the main vehicle for protecting American technology from foreign governments, rarely monitors the various new avenues Chinese nationals use to secure access to American technology. Even if it had a more formal mandate, the committee lacks the resources to deal with increasingly complex cases, which revolve around lines of code and reams of personal data more than physical infrastructure. POLITICO's Cory Bennett joins Ben to talk about CFIUS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Ben White is joined by POLITICO White House reporter Nancy Cook to talk about the interview they had with Larry Kudlow, the Director of the United States National Economic Council. They discuss how Kudlow is an optimist in a White House that is known for backbiting, and how it is possible for Kudlow to work well with President Trump despite their conflicting opinions on hot button issues like trade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former senior economic adviser to President Bush and current Hoover fellow Kevin Warsh was in the running to become the next Federal Reserve chairman in 2017. Warsh shares insights from his interview with President Trump for the job, his take on interest rates, the state of the Republican Party and job growth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben White takes listeners inside one of the most prominent financial conferences of the year, the 2018 Milken Global Conference. The show features highlights from celebrity interviews, hallway interviews and an excerpt from the "Financial Regulation: New Era, New Regulators" panel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

POLITICO trade journalists Megan Cassella, Adam Behsudi and Doug Palmer explain exactly what's going on with the Trump White House and international trade. Will the U.S. ultimately decide to get back into the Trans-Pacific Partnership or seek individual deals with Japan and other TPP members? Can the White House meet a looming deadline to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and get a new deal through Congress? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former top Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee joins POLITICO Money to discuss President Trump potentially putting political pressure on the Federal Reserve. Goolsbee also reflects back on his own experiences in the Obama administration, especially leaving the White House on the day in 2011 when Standard & Poor’s downgraded U.S. debt for the first time ever in the midst of a bitter debt limit crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former BLS Commissioner Erica Groshen joins POLITICO Money to discuss how the very low unemployment number masks some persistent weaknesses in our economy. Plus, Brenda Dryer, the director of workforce solutions in Ames, Iowa, explains the conditions in the city with the lowest unemployment rate in the nation at just 1.4 percent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper and Ben White come to you live from Midtown in New York City. The governor discusses his recent visit to the first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa, the impact of steel and aluminum tariffs on the beer industry in Colorado, a possible "unity ticket" with Governor Kasich and, of course, baseball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Ben unpacks the personal data questions swirling around the Cambridge Analytica scandal and examines what kind of government regulation could prevent privacy violations going forward. David Kirkpatrick, author of "The Facebook Effect," discusses how this data leak happened and how the company is responding to the crisis. POLITICO tech reporter Nancy Scola also joins the show to talk regulation options and how heavy governance could impact the targeted advertising business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Ben delves into Donald Trump’s plan to slap as much as $60 billion in tariffs on imported Chinese goods. Does the president misunderstand the nature of the U.S. trade relationship with China? Or is it imperative that tariffs be used to protect American workers? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Ben White explores the Crapo bill, the legislation that reforms the Dodd-Frank Act by scaling back regulations on regional banks. The banking bill is supported by some moderate Democrats, but is getting criticized by the far left. Is there teeth to the argument or are we wading into partisan politics? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this edition of Ask Ben Anything: trade, tariffs, beer cans... he answers it all. Host Ben White tackles listener-submitted questions on the tariff talks taking over economic news this week, and reveals his deep knowledge of a specific Star Wars movie (not the one you'd expect) at the same time. Do you have questions for Ben? Send them to [email protected] or Tweet at him @morningmoneyben. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Newly installed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome "Jay" Powell turned in a smooth inaugural performance on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, parrying both Republican and Democratic attempts to get him to make news. Ben assesses the top takeaways from the testimony and welcomes Glenn Hubbard, Dean of the Columbia University business school and close friend of Powell’s, to discuss the Fed Chair's economic outlook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former top executive at Citigroup and current CEO of Ellevest Sallie Krawcheck has some ideas for why the testosterone-fueled world of Wall Street has not yet had a 'Me Too' moment. Sallie also discusses combating "mansplaining" and how financial independence impacts women's politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows joins POLITICO Money to discuss being a fiscally conservative stronghold in the midst of exploding deficits and rising debt. Meadows also speaks out against the White House's handling of the Rob Porter scandal and explains why the House should take the lead of immigration. Meadows is undoubtedly frustrated. But he won't overthrow the House leadership ... not yet, at least. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mohamed A. El-Erian, chief economic adviser at Allianz, analyzes the recent chaos in the stock market and what it means for the country's larger economic picture. El-Erian also discusses the tax cut, running a responsible deficit and if the recent Fed Chair change contributed to the downturn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben White breaks down the top money takeawats from President Trump's 2018 State of the Union address. Ben dissects the infrastructure, tax and trade points, and analyzes how the assertions with play with Democrats, fact checks claims, and discusses Trump's "Morning in America" moment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oklahoma Republican Senator Jim Inhofe discusses working with the White House on an infrastructure proposal, where the $1 trillion in funding would come from, and how the shutdown affected the agenda item's timetable. Inhofe also discusses President Trump's nontraditional leadership style and why Trump's tweets have been "helpful" in chastening North Korea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Senator Tom Carper discusses the crumbling state of infrastructure in the country and how much the Trump administration is reportedly willing to spend to make necessary improvements. Carper also talks about his daily Amtrak commute, why he's loved the Detroit Tigers since he was a child ,and his trusty mini-van with over 400,000 miles on it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Obama Chief of Staff and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew discusses the Trump administration's "luck" this far, the stock market's resilience to global threats, and how he raised spirits in the White House following Hillary Clinton's 2016 loss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

POLITICO's Ben White, Nancy Cook and Aaron Lorenzo dig into President Donald Trump’s likely agenda for the year, which could include demands for a border wall, tough actions on trade and at least an attempt to get bipartisan support for a major infrastructure bill. They also explain the weird stuff that happened with the tax cut bill over the holiday break including homeowners in blue states racing to prepay their 2018 property taxes and states looking at creative solutions including turning their incomes taxes into fully deductible charitable contributions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the cryptocurrency's rise just beginning or near its end? In the latest POLITICO Money podcast, experts pick apart the bitcoin speculation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Froman says that more government borrowing from the new tax plan will likely boost the U.S. trade gap despite Trump's wishes. The former U.S. trade chief discusses why trade becomes a scapegoat for economic anxieties, the consequences of pulling out of TPP and why trade deficits aren't necessarily a bad thing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Top Republican economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin criticizes tactics in the tax debate, but says he expects stronger economic growth as a result. Holtz-Eakin discusses the disappearing American dream, staying in your lane in Trump's Washington and why Republicans should just be straight about the bet they are making on growth and higher deficits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new report from Standard & Poor's chief U.S. economist Beth Ann Bovino says that the economy might be bolstered by getting more women into the workforce and providing more incentives for them to stay. Bovino joins Politico's Ben White to discuss the report, the economic cost of sexual harassment in the workplace and a few lessons the U.S. could take from Norway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former adviser to President Ronald Reagan and CNBC contributor Larry Kudlow discusses his role in shaping the Trump tax plan and where Republicans went wrong with the individual side cuts. Kudlow explains why he believes the cutting the corporate rate will raise the U.S. growth rate to 3 or 4 percent, and how trade would be impacted if the United States pulls out of NAFTA. Plus, Kudlow recounts his struggle to get sober to in the 90's and how it was a crucial turning point in his life. Subscribe to the Morning Money newsletter here: http://politi.co/2AFdrjL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Want to sound smart when your Thanksgiving conversation invariably turns to marginal tax rates and corporate hiring behavior? Ben White hosts a reporter roundtable featuring Nancy Cook, Seung Min Kim and Brian Faler, join the group as they unpack the Republican tax cut effort from every angle. The issues explored include: Why are Republicans doing this now when the economy seems to be doing fine? Will it really light a fire under growth and drive up wages? Can the GOP cross the finish line and get a bill to President Donald Trump’s desk? And if they do, will they live to regret it given polls show most Americans don’t like what Republicans are doing? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blackstone President Tony James joins POLITICO Money this week to discuss the Republican's tax reform plan, the stock market's stability, and if Hillary Clinton's Wall Street ties ultimately cost her the 2016 election. James also explains why he does not believe that the markets are crying out for corporate tax cuts and how specific provisions in the tax reform bill would hurt business growth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers sits down with Ben White to discuss the pitfalls of presidents taking credit for the stock market's performance, his criticisms of the GOP tax plan and his tenure at Harvard. Summers also reflects back on his failed candidacy to become chair of the Federal Reserve four years ago and his commitment to maintaining an "optimistic" outlook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices