America’s tech supremacy?

Political Currency

Persephonica

Business, Economy, George Osborne, Westminster, Politics, News, Money, Ed Balls

4 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

President Trump has had a big week, what with an inauguration and then signing a myriad of actions in his first days in office - never mind the move to US tech supremacy. After a big start, Ed Balls and George Osborne ask whether he can sustain the political honeymoon, or if this will be a very different Trump presidency, marred by the reality of being a populist President in office.

Meanwhile, like the rest of the global elite, George is in Davos, and he’s reporting back to Ed everything he’s heard about the outsider’s economic view of the UK. Will Rachel Reeves and Jonathan Reynolds’ upcoming announcements make any difference to the ‘glum’ outlook?

And another closely-observed politician at Davos is Friedrich Merz, contender for the next Chancellor of Germany. As the AfD chases his CDU party, are we looking, as he claims, at the last free election in modern Germany?

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