Financials: A Changing of the Guard at the Federal Reserve
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
President Trump is interviewing candidates to replace Janet Yellen atop the Federal Reserve. In this episode of Industry Focus: Financials, we dig into the two types of candidates he's considering for the position, and how that will impact the central bank's policies.
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| 0:10.4 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast |
| 0:12.2 | that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:15.0 | It's Monday, October 2nd, and we're talking about the Fed. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm your host, Michael Douglas, filling in for Gabby Lapparay this week, and I'm joined in the studio by John Maxfield. |
| 0:23.5 | John, great to have you back on the show. |
| 0:25.0 | Michael Douglas, it's such a pleasure to be on the show with you. |
| 0:28.0 | It's been a long time, my friend, a long time. |
| 0:30.3 | It has. |
| 0:31.3 | Long time industry focus listeners will remember I used to run the financial show |
| 0:35.7 | It must have been what two and a half years ago three years ago something like that |
| 0:39.3 | Yeah, it feels like it feels like an enormous amount of time ago but I want to say something |
| 0:43.7 | about you Michael Douglas to our listeners okay oh well here goes when did you |
| 0:48.1 | join the Motley Fool it would have been able to see |
| 0:55.0 | able to see Michael Douglas's full ascent at the Motley Pool. |
| 1:01.0 | Let me tell you something to you listeners. Michael Douglas |
| 1:06.0 | is one of those extraordinarily talented individuals. I'm not saying this just |
| 1:09.6 | because we work together and all those stuff, but it has been so much fun watching you, Michael, |
| 1:13.8 | not only because you've gotten in such a short amount of time, right? |
| 1:18.0 | You've gotten good at like the whole industry focus thing |
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