Episodes

  • Is Trump Bringing an End to US Free Market Capitalism?
    Sep 17 2025

    Host Stephanie Flanders, Bloomberg’s head of government and economics, is joined by Bloomberg managing editor Shelly Banjo and senior reporter Ian King to discuss how Trump has changed the rules for corporate America, and whether this marks a permanent change.

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    27 mins
  • Trump Isn’t the Only Reason the Price of Money Is Rising
    Sep 10 2025

    Why is the price of money rising and what does US President Donald Trump have to do with it? Stephanie Flanders is joined by Bloomberg Economics' Jamie Rush and Tom Orlik to explore the global forces driving up interest rates, from defense spending to deglobalization, and what higher borrowing costs mean for governments, businesses and households.

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    23 mins
  • Why Are Stocks Hitting Records Amid US Uncertainty?
    Sep 3 2025

    On this episode of Trumponomics, we explore the curious moment in markets where most investors see equities as overvalued but don’t want to sell just yet. Host and Bloomberg Head of Government and Economics Stephanie Flanders is joined by Bloomberg Economics economist Anna Wong and Everything Risk author Ed Harrison.

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    24 mins
  • What Is the Anti-Trumponomics Agenda?
    Aug 27 2025

    It’s been a little more than seven months since US President Donald Trump returned to the White House, and much has been made of his administration’s unprecedented actions when it comes to trade, geopolitics and domestic matters. There are plenty of detractors pointing to the downsides of the Republican’s moves, but we hear less about what the US should be doing instead. It raises the interesting question: what would the Democratic alternative be?

    Host Stephanie Flanders and Noah Smith, a former columnist for Bloomberg Opinion and now a prominent Substack writer, ask whether—if the opposition party returns to power—should it return to the neoliberal policies of the Obama administration, or find its own populist message to match that of Trump? Or perhaps something in between?

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    30 mins
  • Is Economic Self-Sufficiency a Myth?
    Aug 20 2025

    Host Stephanie Flanders speaks with journalist and author Ben Chu to unpack his latest book, Exile Economics: What Happens if Globalisation Fails. As President Donald Trump calls for the US to break its dependence on foreign imports and bring all production “back home,” Chu pulls back the curtain on what abandoning globalization would actually look like—not in theory, but in the messy, interconnected reality of the 21st century.

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    32 mins
  • Why the End of US Dollar Dominance Is Now Possible
    Aug 13 2025

    On this episode of Trumponomics, we explore the impact of President Donald Trump’s economic policies on the standing of the US dollar, and the consequences for the US and global economies if the greenback is no longer the world’s primary reserve currency. As our guests explain, it seems that a reckoning has been in the making for some time.

    Barry Eichengreen, professor of economics and political science at the University of California Berkeley, joins along with Bloomberg Washington reporter Saleha Mohsin to discuss how reserve currencies come about, how the US dollar ascended to that role and what happens if it falls back to earth.

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    23 mins
  • The Unintended Consequences of Trump’s Tariff Strategy
    Aug 6 2025

    With US President Donald Trump’s self-imposed Aug. 1 deadline having come and gone, trading partners across the globe are digesting what his new threatened tariffs might mean for them.

    But it’s early days yet in Trump’s trade war, and everything from the unexpected movement of the dollar to negative jobs data and $1 trillion in trade exemptions continues to cloud the picture. On this episode of Trumponomics, we try to understand how Trump’s tariffs (which, to add more complexity, an appeals court could soon rule illegal) are currently affecting US businesses, China and the rest of the world. Host Stephanie Flanders is joined Bloomberg Economics Chief US Economist Anna Wong and Bloomberg News senior correspondent Shawn Donnan to discuss it all.

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    32 mins
  • The Promise and Peril of Trump’s Big AI Plan
    Jul 30 2025

    On this week’s Trumponomics, we unpack the promise and peril for America of Trump’s AI vision. Host Stephanie Flanders is joined by Michael Deng, geoeconomics technology analyst for Bloomberg Economics, and Parmy Olson, a columnist with Bloomberg Opinion and author of the book Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World.

    Together, they discuss how the administration’s plans when it comes to tariffs, energy and other issues risk isolating the US from the very global tech ecosystem it’s trying to dominate.

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    25 mins