# Professor Richard Sylla is interviewed about political polarization

1 Faculty News April 27, 2017 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielkruger/2017/04/27/le-pen-may-lose-but-she-isnt-going-away-neither-is-our-polarizing-populism/#28083c441ea8) -- "'Polarization is preventing Trump from repealing Obamacare and has forced him to postpone tax reform and infrastructure spending,' according to [Richard Sylla](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/richard-sylla), a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and co-author with Sidney Homer of A History of Interest Rates."

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