Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news single best idea quick four or five minute podcast to touch up against your other podcast. Of course, lookout on YouTube podcasts. For all that we're doing and building here today, I could have gone with seven eight angles here. The news flow is extraordinary and eclectic across economics, finance, investment, and international relations. Let's stick on international relations. Tobin Marcus with work in
the Obama Biden administration and economics. He's at Wolf Research. Tobin Marcus. He talked about the present administration and I asked him about how he perceived the previous effort.
The latter stages of the Biden administration were somewhat listless. You know, they came in with a lot of ideas, were you know, faced a challenging global landscape. Certainly you look at places like Ukraine. I don't think that we saw a lot of progress over the course of the past couple of years. Sort of theory of the case, after the big counter offensive that they tried to prepare
the Ukrainians for which didn't really succeed. I think mostly we were kind of holding ground for the past few years.
Toovin Marcus at Wolf researched the many voices. Henrietta Trees was just brilliant on Capitol Hill today. Mark Champion out of our London office. We'll have to feature him at some point. I'll try to get his recent essays out with Bloomberg Opinion, very informative and thought provoking of all this international relations. There is a heritage here at Bloomberg, and no one carries that heritage like Michael McKee. You know him from his work on economics, of course leading
to charge at the FED press conference. Kid him. He was the only one at Reyevic who couldn't have vodka because he was so young. Michael McKee was at Rayevic with Gorbaschev and Reagan and was in Lascow for the upset of Yeltsin. Michael McKee on Russia.
You could get very philosophical and go back into the history of Russia and how it has generally been run by strong men, and how the Russian people are sort of used to that and are willing to do that. It's a little bit like what happened when China opened up and the Chinese Communist Party said, we will give you the possibility of prosperity as long as you stay out of politics, and that's kind of where the Russians are at the moment. But the problem is the war
is creating all kinds of economic issues. So Putin has a reason to want to settle. The question is is where do they go from there? And I think, as Linskin points out, you can't trust Putin.
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