Earlier this week, the United States took the rare step of formally labeling China as a currency manipulator.  This comes after increased trade tensions as the President also decided to impose additional tariffs on Chinese goods.  Talks to end the trade war have repeatedly failed and the new tariffs are set to take place on September 1st if no deal is made.  Doug Palmer, senior trade reporter at Politico, joins us to explain what it means when China devalues their money.

Next, we get to talk to one of the best skip tracers in the world.  A combination bill collector, bounty hunter, and private investigator, a skip tracer finds people and things that have disappeared and don’t want to be found.  Most people would be very surprised to find out that the best bounty hunter in the world is only 4’11”.  Skip tracer, Michelle Gomez specializes in hard to locate recoveries and joins us to talk about how she got involved of the world of skip tracing, some of the methods she uses to hunt people down, and one of her biggest cases… tracking down Ryan Mullen, who at one point was on the FBI’s most wanted list.  

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