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🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | welcome everybody at the Jim Acosta show. It is Thursday. Apparently, I guess it's one day after |
0:07.2 | Liberation Day, and a lot of people are feeling liberated from the money that was in their |
0:13.0 | bank accounts 24 hours ago, 48 hours ago. We're going to call this Trump's Market Meltdown |
0:19.5 | today. You can see Elise Labett, |
0:21.7 | foreign policy correspondent is with me. And we're going to talk to at least in just a moment. |
0:27.7 | I'm going to run through some of these headlines here because it's extraordinary what's |
0:30.5 | happening right now. I just checked the CNBC website a few moments ago. And as of 4 o'clock |
0:37.2 | Eastern time, the close of the markets, the Dow is down |
0:42.0 | almost four percentage points, down nearly 1,700 points. Just extraordinary. The Drudge Report main |
0:49.6 | page has George Washington with a black eye on the dollar bill. The headline is tariffifying, |
0:56.5 | if you guys are following along there. At least I'm sure you get that. And indeed it is. |
1:02.8 | The Associated Press reports, U.S. companies had billions of dollars in value wiped out after |
1:07.4 | President Donald Trump slapped sweeping tariffs on foreign imports. |
1:11.1 | CNBC reports. Stocks took a nosedive today, sending the S&P 500 back into correction territory. |
1:18.0 | Shares of multinational companies tumbled. |
1:21.0 | Elise, I was looking at this earlier this afternoon. |
1:23.2 | Big names, Nike and Apple dropping 13%, 9% respectively. Big sellers of imported goods were among the |
1:30.5 | hardest hits. Companies, five below, lost 26%. These are names people recognize folks in Main Street |
1:38.2 | America, MAGA America, Dollar Tree tumbled 11%. The gap plunged 20%. Invvidia, a lot of guys out there are invested in |
1:46.7 | Nvidia. That was off 7%. City Bank, Bank of America, down 11% and 10% respectively. And this was the one, |
1:54.9 | at least you and I might relate to this one. I mean, anybody who likes to go shopping for furniture, |
1:59.7 | restoration hardware is a |
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