Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now,

with short newsy interviews alongside the deeper dives of Masters of Scale. Well, I'm excited to share that rapid response is expanding into its own feed.

We'll be putting out shows twice a week, focusing on the urgent issues that business leaders are dealing with in real time.

So search for rapid response in your podcast player

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I'll see you on the other side.

Did you see what just happened in the pandemic?

Did you see how we came together?

Do you see what's happening in the economy?

And yet you have politicians in both parties just bashing business all the time.

What's at stake for our country is, are we going to preserve a messy flawed system that's the best system in the world and keep making it better.

Are we going to acknowledge what the Free Enterprise System has done because we have so

much more it still has to solve.

That's Suzanne Clark, the CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Suzanne advocates for businesses in front of global leaders

and here in the U.S. At a moment of global leaders and here in the US.

At a moment of global conflict, adversarial politics, big tech lawsuits,

I wanted to take the temperature on the state of the economy

with someone who represents millions of anxious

business people. I was eager to ask Clark about her recent visit to China and

also explore the impact of US government regulation on progress and innovation.

I'm Bob Safian and this is rapid response. Hi listeners it's Erica Flint. VP of alliances and audience development at Wait What, the company behind

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