In this episode, we unpack the Trump administration’s confrontation with the US Federal Reserve—what politicising an independent central bank means for inflation control, debt servicing, market stability and global spillovers. We connect the dots to the dollar’s reserve-currency role and BRICS “multipolar” rhetoric, then pivot to the widening transatlantic rift on technology governance, as Washington pushes back on EU/UK content regimes. We close with practical guardrails for corporate AI use amid model bias and rising “automation bias.”