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Business Matters: Trump nominee Amy Coney Barrett testifies in Supreme Court

Trump nominee Amy Coney Barrett testifies in Supreme Court

13/10/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Trump nominee Amy Coney Barrett testifies in Supreme Court

The President's nominee says she is 'honoured and humbled' to have been chosen

The President's nominee Amy Coney Barrett says she is 'honoured and humbled' to have been chosen by Donald Trump for a place in the US's top court. After the first day of confirmation hearings, we speak to Ilya Shapiro, director at the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies' Cato Institute and author of Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court.
Stanford University game theorists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson have won the 2020 Nobel Economics Prize for their work on auction theory. We speak to Robert Wilson and ask how relevant auction theory is in the world today.
And Australian scientists have discovered that the virus that causes Covid-19 can survive for up to 28 days on banknotes. Dr Debbie Eagles from the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness tells us how much of a threat this could be.

Jamie Robertson is joined throughout the programme by Simon Littlewood, president of AC Growth Delivered, in Singapore, and by Alexis Goldstein, activist and financial reform advocate, in Washington DC. 

(Picture: Amy Coney Barrett; Picture credit: Getty Images)

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