On this episode of the Business Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are “Rocket Ron” Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Richard Aboulafia of AeroDynamic Advisory and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners.

Topics:

— US and European Market performance as investors grapple with broad market drivers and magnitude of coming recession

— Air travel update as appetite continues strong despite rising fares

— Analysis of Boeing President and CEO Dave Calhoun’s statement that the company wouldn’t develop a new jetliner for at least two years

— US Air Force announcement that it’s top priority Next-Generation Air Dominance program has entered engineering and manufacturing development, suggesting a blistering pace for the top secret effort

— Update on Europe’s two next-generation combat aircraft programs, the UK-Sweden-Italy Tempest and France-Germany-Spain SCAF efforts