Hi, Brian Lairer here.

Up next, Brian Lairor Weekend,

three of our favorite segments from the week,

packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend.

So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m.

on WNYC on WNYC.

Good morning again, everyone.

Now the longtime finance journalist, William D. Cohen.

You may know him from his deeply reported books like House of Cards after the 2008 financial crisis or more recently power failure, the rise and fall of an American icon about GE. Now he's got a column and newsletter for Puck News called Wall Street Braces for CEO Trump. He writes, the latest shots fired against J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, and especially the zinger

aimed at David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs, have sent a chill of many a spine in finance.

When will Trump come for Wall Street, as he has

for universities and law firms? That's all a quote from the article. He also references

Trump's takeover of the D.C. police and the Kennedy Center. And he could have added the

portrayal of history at the Smithsonian after last week's news on that. So Bill Cohen asks,

among other things, is Trump turning into a socialist or just another strong man authoritarian?

On the comparison to socialists, he's comparing Trump's government take over a business to

socialist ones from elsewhere. The point being, it's still government control of the market.

So we'll get Bill Cohen's reporting and his take. The David Solomon story is pretty remarkable,

and you may not have heard it yet. And we'll discuss Trump's nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

E.J. Antony from the Project 2025 producing Heritage Foundation said after

Trump was elected last year that he thinks the U.S. should sunset, his word, the Social Security

Program. Sunset Social Security will play a clip of Antony where he says that and inadvertently

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