Carol Massar

He's president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

He joins us from, I believe, the nation's capital on this Tuesday.

Yes, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Posen, good to have you here.

Back here on Bloomberg and on Bloomberg Businessweek Daily.

These relationships, I first got to ask you, you know, watching the relationship, what seems to be a very close relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia.

And I think about their economies.

How do you see it?

What's significant for you here in watching this?

Adam, you talk about relationships and I think about something that came up questioning by reporters of the president and MBS while at the White House.

And that is about kind of the relationships that the Trump Organization has with Saudi Arabia on business deals.

And we have a story in the Bloomberg about the Trump Organization planning a luxury resort in the Maldives with a Saudi Arabian partner.

It's just one case.

I'm just curious, you've watched, you've talked about, you've analyzed different administrations.

This kind of what seems to be a mixing melding.

I know the president answered the question.

He said, I have nothing to do with family business.

But how do you see this?

So just to be fair, because we certainly get feedback from our audience and to say that the president says, I'm not involved, though, you know, and we've had, you know, any president that walks into the White House, Republican or Democrat, you know, certainly has allegiances to industries or so on.

And again- Transparency doesn't necessarily negate actions, right?