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Bloomberg Surveillance hosted by Paul Sweeney & David Gura
October 15th, 2025
- Maurice Obstfeld, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics & Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley, discusses why tariffs should not be relied on as a long-term revenue tool.
- Chris Whalen, Founder and Chairman at Whalen Global Advisors, reacts to big bank earnings and gives his perspective on why the Fed rate cut narrative has cooled considerably.
- Fatima Boolani, Co-Head of the US Software Equity Research Team at Citi, joins to discuss IT budgets falling below historic levels.
- Lisa Mateo joins with the latest headlines in newspapers across the US, including a Wall Street Journal story on Chinese criminals making over $1 billion from scam texts, and reporting from The Washington Post on the US passport falling out of the top 10 most powerful passports globally.

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