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Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, in conversation with Rudyard Griffiths, Chair and moderator of the Munk Debates.\\xa0

The following is a sample of the Munk Debates\\u2019 weekly current affairs podcast, Friday Focus. \\xa0

On this week\\u2019s edition of the Friday Focus podcast, Janice and Rudyard start the show with a discussion of crises rocking US regional banks as result of the bailout of Silicon Valley Bank. How is the rest of the world reacting to yet another \\u201cmade in America\\u201d financial crisis? How does the bailout effect the so-called \\u201cmoral hazard\\u201d in investing, and does this concept even exist anymore? Friday Focus wraps up with a twin discussion of how Iran and Saudi Arabia have restored diplomatic relations and the appointment of David Johnston to investigate election interference in Canada.\\xa0\\xa0

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This podcast is a project of the Munk Debates, a Canadian charitable organization dedicated to fostering civil and substantive public dialogue.

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