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Bloomberg Wall Street Week: Bryant, Perry, Greene

One of the most iconic brands in financial television returns for today's issues and today's world. This week's Wall Street Week features David Westin's interviews with Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard Kennedy School Senior Fellow Megan Greene, University of Virginia Miller Center Professor Barbara Perry and Operation HOPE Founder & CEO John Hope Bryant. The conversations highlight the implications of the unrest at the U.S. Capitol, the economic fallout from the slow pace of vaccinations, and market reaction to the Georgia runoffs.

Barbara Perry

Divisions in the U.S. will take a long time to fix: Biden transition advisor

Chris Lu, executive director of the Obama-Biden Transition Project and a member of the Biden transition team discusses how the president-elect's team plans to move forward following the riots in D.C.

Chris Lu

Calls to remove the U.S. president from office grow louder

Melody Barnes, director of UVA's Democracy Initiative, is interviewed on CBC.

Melody Barnes

Trump would be only the 4th president to boycott his successor's inauguration

Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, told CNN the refusal to attend a successor's inauguration was an "unfortunate precedent set by Adams, not copied again until his son did it in 1829."

Barbara Perry

Capitol attack may have divided Republicans, but it didn’t make Biden’s job easier

“The danger for the Biden team is if they come in and try to get as much as they can now without reaching across the aisle,” said Mary Kate Cary, a top White House adviser to President George H.W. Bush who is now a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Miller Center at the University of Virginia. “If they do that, they’re going to get a lot of backlash.”

Mary Kate Cary

To China, Spades Are Trumps

In thinking about what spades might represent, I eventually recognized that that they are, literally, shovels, and then recalled Khrushchev’s oft-quoted remarks at a reception at the Polish Embassy in Moscow in 1956 in which he told the Western ambassadors in attendance, “We will bury you.” That was later interpreted to mean not that Soviet Union would crush the West in a military confrontation if the Cold War turned hot, but rather that socialism would outperform capitalism and thus the Soviet Union would outlive the West and be present at its funeral. I then realized that China may actually see spades, more than clubs and diamonds, as its most important trump suit.

Harry Harding