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What to make of the first presidential debate?

Will it impact the race for the White House, or the debates to come?

Peter Spiegel, US Managing Editor of the Financial Times on the impact of and fallout from the first debate. Susan Schmidt of Aviva Investors analyses the markets' reaction. Plus, the Bank of England's Chief Economist, Andy Haldane has blamed the media for emphasising the bad news about the pandemic and has called for more optimism. We ask Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and author of The Optimism Bias, whether being optimistic can make a difference.

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