Will Trump Try to Roll Back Wall Street Reform?
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The Dodd-Frank act was a direct response to the risk-taking and miss-selling which punctuated the financial crisis of 2008 in the United States. But in another controversial executive order, President Trump signaled an intent to roll back some of the restrictions on Wall Street.
We have reaction from Democratic Party Congressman Jim Himes of Connecticut sits on the House Financial Services Committee,Norbert Michel, Research Fellow in Financial Regulation at the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC, and from Wall Street itself, from FTN Finanical's chief economist Chris Low.
Is $25 billion really what the mobile app Snapchat is worth? The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones tells us all about its owner, Snap's, planned flotation on the US stock exchange.
He's one of the world's most successful and high-profile businessmen but we could all be about to find out a lot more about billionaire Warren Buffet. Kai Ryssdal of the Marketplace programme on American Public Media will tell us all about meeting with the director of a new documentary about Mr Buffet's life.
And, Black Ops Advertising, it sounds more like military strategy than business, but as Professor Mara Einstein of Queens College, City University of New York, the author of the new book of the same name tell us, there's plenty of tactics and strategy in the world of marketing and ads.
The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Fergus Nicoll will be joined throughout the hour from Sydney by the ABC News journalist Elizabeth Jackson.
PICTURE: Washington, DC, U.S. President Donald Trump signs Executive Orders in the Oval Office of the White House, including an order to review the Dodd-Frank Wall Street to roll back financial regulations of the Obama era.. (Photo: Getty Images)
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