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On today's podcast:

(1) UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves is considering dropping plans to raise the headline rates of income tax and a slew of other levies in her upcoming budget.

(2) China’s economic activity cooled more than expected at the start of the fourth quarter with an unprecedented slump in investment and slower growth in industrial output.

(3) US President Donald Trump is readying substantial tariff cuts and trade deals as he seeks to address voter concerns over high food prices and the cost of goods.

(4) The BBC's Chairman Samir Shah has written to the White House expressing remorse to US President Donald Trump for a misleading documentary edit of his January 6th speech in 2021. 

(5) EU officials are looking at how to transform the European Securities & Markets Authority into a more sweeping watchdog like the SEC in the United States.

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