Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Oct 15, ’23 Business Report]

On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities, Richard Aboulafia of the AeroDynamic Advisory consultancy, and Dr. Kevin Michaels, AeroDynamic Advisory’s managing director, join Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss the week on world markets as annual inflation drops but gas and rents rise; how investors are responding to continuing GOP chaos on Capitol Hill and Israel’s expanding war on Gaza in the wake of Hamas’ deadly terror attacks; supply chain issues complicating US ability to act as arsenal of democracies to replenish its depleted stocks as well as Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan; how global defense is changing; lessons from Ukraine and the sophisticated Hamas attack on Israel; implications of Boeing’s delivery of only 15 737 jetliners because of production problems at Spirit AeroSystems; and look at the future of commercial aircraft propulsion.