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Coming up on today's show, Airbus' new boss takes over as the company looks set to fly high.

Never before have they ever sold so many planes.

And the global remittance market.

Just how much can start-ups disrupt the industry?

So you had a lot of new startups launching at the beginning of the decade, but the market has

concentrated since.

But first, around the world the independence of Central Banks is looking fragile.

Central Banker's job of setting monetary policy free from political concerns is at risk. And the role of Central Banks looks ever

more important as the IMF has just downgraded its forecast for global growth with the

euro area expected to see a notable

deceleration. In America President Donald Trump has announced his intention

to nominate two of his ardent political supporters to the Board of the Federal Reserve.

One is the former boss of Godfather's Pizza, Hermann Kane, who, like Mr Trump, has been a vocal

critic of the Fed.

Our economics columnist Ryan Avant considers the reasons behind Hermann Kane's nomination.

To the extent that Herman Kane has talked about monetary policy in the past, he hasn't necessarily

come across as a person with the kind of beliefs that Trump would like.

Trump gets angry when the Fed does things that are perceived to be slowing economic growth.

You know, that makes sense.

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