Alex Frangos
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457 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 17 Sep
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WSJ What’s News · Chips, Juice and Airplanes - Exemptions Confuse as Tariffs Kick In · 7 Aug 2025
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And the signal seems to be there will continue to be more and more of those sorts of things negotiated.
First of all, the banks say that they don't discriminate.
People on the conservative side of things feel otherwise.
They think that companies as well in the oil and gas industry were discriminated against over the last few years.
Well, first of all, the banks say that they don't discriminate.
There have been instances that folks in the conservative community point to, and the banks say that they dropped customers for all sorts of reasons, some of which have to do with rules that the government itself implemented about anti-money laundering.
or trying to avoid reputational risks.
People in the conservative side of things feel otherwise.
They think that companies as well in the oil and gas industry were discriminated against over the last few years when there was this kind of movement towards green energy and that banks were trying to kind of decarbonize their
banking books.
The other thing is that the Trump family itself, its business had done business with Capital One and a bunch of their accounts were shut down.
This is something that Eric Trump has brought up as a reason for them to be suspicious and skeptical about how the banks are treating certain types of customers.
Yeah, I mean, that's less of a direct impact on the banks and more kind of a collateral damage where the investment community on Wall Street has relied on the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the other organs of government that collect data to make investments.
And it's something that sets the U.S.
apart is that we've
been perceived as having this gold standard statistical collection service, a lot of other countries, you just can't trust the numbers.
And in the US, compared to everywhere else, you have been able to trust the numbers.
And this matters a lot.
You know, if you're making an investment, if you're buying US government debt,
You want to know what the inflation rate is.
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