Ciarán Hancock

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1,838 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5d ago

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Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock · Will new pay transparency rules close the gender pay gap for good? · 27 May 2026 podcast

And questions about, I suppose, the independence of Warsh, given that Donald Trump seems to be quite warm towards him.

Economist and influential New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, he described Warsh as Donald Trump's sock puppet.

Is that fair?

Yeah.

He was confirmed by 54 votes to 45, which sounds OK, you know, margin of nine.

But it was actually the narrowest margin for Senate approval of a Fed chair since that process was implemented 50 years ago.

Yeah.

Now, Donald Trump has suggested that Warsh will conform to his agenda and lower interest rates, which he argues will be necessary to boost the economy.

What has Warsh said about what he's going to do or what path he might take as Fed chief?

Yeah.

Now, Trump did appoint Jerome Powell, didn't he, during his first term as US president.

So presumably he was pretty warm towards Powell at that point.

But he cooled him, certainly in the second time around.

What are the chances that his relationship with Warsh might go the same way?

What's the mood like over there at the moment, Keith, among people?

You know, we talk a lot here about cost of living pressures and it gets a lot of airtime, etc.

What's it like over there?

And of course, there are midterm elections coming up later in the year, aren't there?

And Trump's poll ratings are pretty poor at the moment.

Yeah.

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