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Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [May 17, ’26 Business Report]

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities, Sash Tusa of Agency Partners, and Richard Aboulafia of the AeroDynamic advisory consultancy join host Vago Muradian to discuss a flat week on Wall Street as April inflation that rose to 3.8 percent on higher energy costs in the wake of the US-Israel war on Iran; Washington-Tehran talks continue as Strait of Hormuz traffic remains stalled; President Trump’s summit in Beijing with Xi Jinping that yielded few deals and Taiwan as the central bargaining chip in…

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