Andrew Peach is joined by Peter Morici, an economist at the University of Maryland in the US, and Sushma Ramachandran, who's a columnist at the Tribune newspaper, in Delhi, India. They discuss Canada, where the finance minister Chrystia Freeland resigned on the same day an economic statement was due, triggering a political crisis. There's more political crisis in Germany, where the government has collapsed amid a row over the economy. We ask what businesses want from the country's next leaders. We hear from India - as Sri Lanka wants closer relations with the country on energy and trade. Plus we discuss the safety of CEOs - as the president of the global insurance giant AON tells us firms are going to have to rethink their security process for executives.
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Today, what next for Canada with the threat of trade tariffs from Donald Trump?
The prime minister and his deputy don't agree about that.
So Chrystia Freeland has resigned.
The German government has collapsed amid a row over the economy.
But what do business leaders there want?
And a leading insurance boss tells us after the shooting of the CEO of United Healthcare in New York, more security for top execs is now inevitable.
It has been a really interesting discussion inside of the US around business leaders that are now targets based on the firms they work for.
And that is a new development.
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Please welcome Peter Maurici, who's an economist at the University of Maryland and columnist for Dow Jones Market Watch and the Washington Times.
Peter, live with us from Alexandria, Virginia.