11. Regulation vs. Deregulation in the Age of Trump

If there’s one thing the election of President Donald J. Trump has taught us, it is to question everything we’ve historically assumed to be true. What if you had to guess someone’s political affiliation based solely on their stated views on market regulation? Do you think you’d be able to do it? We at Wall and Broadcast wanted to take a closer look at how people actually feel about regulating Wall Street, especially as the current administration champions a massive deregulatory wave. In our first episode of Season 2, we speak to market professionals, industry outsiders, lobbyists, a congressman on the House Financial Services Committee, and the Pulitzer prize winning author of Lords of Finance, and what we hear is often totally counterintuitive…