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edition of Money Talks, recorded on location at last week's World Economic Forum meeting

in Davos, Switzerland.

Coming up later, we meet the man nicknamed Dr. Doom, who's been issuing some start warnings about the Trump era and its impact

on America and the wider global economy.

If you're ignoring Asia, if you're growing Europe, if you're ignoring, maybe the least because

you're self-sufficient on energy,

you're not playing the role of providing global security.

And away from the snows of Switzerland, we hear why the future of R&D needs to crank up a gear.

For example, we have about 50 times as many scientists

working on new ideas now than we did 50 years ago,

but actually our productivity growth rates are lower.

But to start, Donald Trump's inauguration was prominent in the thoughts of many at Davos, but

just what are his fiscal and broader financial plans.

To explore that I spoke to Doug Elmendorf, Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School and former

head of the Congressional Budget Office.

And Doug and I were joined by our own economics editor John O'Sullivan.

We began by wondering about Donald Trump's attitude to the Federal Reserve.

Republicans tend to want a tough monetary policy, but it's difficult to imagine that sort of

fed being desired by someone like Donald Trump who's an economic populist.

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