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Hello I'm Simon Long, the finance editor, and you're listening to Money Talks. This week Adrian Waldridge talks about the political homelessness of America's business class,

all around the world of powerful forces,

and a marginalizing business.

And after a British tribunal makes a landmark ruling against Uber,

Ryan Avant discusses the future of work in the GIT economy.

I think what we're going to see is the emergence of a new set of rules and regulations that

govern this kind of in-between sort of employment.

And finally, free shoes to children in need?

What could possibly go wrong?

Samaya Keynes looks at the economics of a one-for-one shoe offer.

The academic described them as a welcome gift, but they're not having the kind of transformative effects on these kids

lives that maybe the people buying the shoes might be led to believe.

But first, American Big Business is lamenting that it's lost influence in its ancestral political

party, the Republicans, which is odd, considering its current champion, is himself a

tycoon, Donald Trump.

It reduces or eliminates most of the deductions and loopholes available to special interests

and to the very rich.

In other words, it's going to cost me a fortune. We talked about this last week in a special

segment pitting Wall Street against Main Street, tackling the question of just how responsible

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