US Economic Signals and the Latest on Iran Negotiations
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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The latest in finance, economics and investment.
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Bloomberg Surveillance hosted by Tom Keene & Paul SweeneyTuesday, April 28th, 2026
Featuring:
1) Robert Kaplan, Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs and former Dallas Fed president, on the Fed, Kevin Warsh's nomination for Fed chair, and the US economy.
2) Eddie Fishman, non-resident fellow at the Firm Center on Global Energy Policy and author at Foreign Affairs, discusses his latest Foreign Affairs article on economic warfare.
3) Bob Sloan, Managing Partner and founder S3 Partners, brings us into the market open and talks S&P 1500 and shorts.
4) Meredith Whitney, CEO at Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, discusses hints on the economy from the US consumer.
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| 0:53.3 | Robert Kaplan joins us Vice Chairman Goldman Sachs and of course all of his experience |
| 0:58.0 | at the Dallas Fed. |
| 1:00.0 | You have a beautiful sentence, Dr. Kaplan, about the idea of we need to build relationships. |
| 1:06.0 | So when you entered the Fed, what do you do? |
| 1:09.0 | Do you have lunch with the chairman? |
| 1:13.7 | Is that how this is going to work with Chairman Worse? |
| 1:18.7 | Those aren't the relationships I was referring to. For Kevin Warsh, and for me, when I went into the Fed and for anybody coming in from outside, |
| 1:25.8 | you want to get to know the staff, particularly the economists. |
| 1:30.7 | You want to meet the heads of supervision. There's 22,000 people at the Fed. You want to meet all |
| 1:37.7 | the bank presidents. When I say relationships, you're going to start getting into a conversation with them about what issues they're seeing, where they're coming from, and you want to start assessing personnel. |
| 1:51.0 | That's all the things that the new chair will need to do in the first number of weeks and months. |
| 1:56.6 | What do you expect, Robert, from this incoming chairman, Kevin Warsh, based upon his testimony, |
| 2:02.6 | based upon what we know in his past experience, what are you expecting? |
| 2:06.6 | He's going to accelerate, in my opinion, and work closely with Mickey Bowman to accelerate, |
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