Podcast: Ex-Im Bank and the Boeing-Airbus Trade Dispute

Think the battle over re-authorizing the U.S. Export-Import Bank is a bunch of bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo? Aviation Week managing editor Graham Warwick doesn’t. In fact, the longtime aerospace journalist – and native Brit – is positively baffled that some politicians in the U.S. are targeting the bank, which guarantees loans to buyers of American products, thus aiding big exporters such as Boeing.

In our Check 6 podcast this week, I talk with Graham about the proposals for “unilateral disarmament.” Senior Business Editor Michael Bruno joins us to explain how the bank’s reach well beyond its core mission – to the benefit of Boeing and other companies – has fueled the opposition. Hear what they have to say…