Episode 388: The Big Beautiful Leap Forward (w/ special guest Alexandra Scaggs)

Trillbilly Worker's Party

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4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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This week we're joined by FT Alphaville writer Alexandra Scaggs (@alexandrascaggs) to discuss all the latest market news from this week: tariffs, reversing the tariffs, reversing the tariff reversals, bond vigilantes, and of course the Art of the Deal Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

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0:00.0	Let me check my bank account real quick.
0:22.7	All right.
0:23.6	Yo, yo.
0:24.5	I have enough money in there to pay my taxes.
0:26.6	That's good.
0:27.6	Okay, welcome Trilley listeners for your episode for the week of April the 10th.
0:34.6	We're joined by Alexandra Skaggs, who is a writer with
0:40.3	Financial Times Alphaville.
0:44.8	An alpha. We got an alpha with us, I guess.
0:49.6	It could be the, what's it called?
0:53.6	That old movie, now I'm blanking on the director, the old French movie about how like a
0:59.4	computer took over the whole world called Alphabille.
1:03.0	Oh, yeah.
1:04.0	Yeah, somebody who was very culturally aware came up with this name in like 2005.
1:10.3	And we have been dining out on it ever since.
1:14.0	Is it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Alphaville also the name of a one hit
1:19.1	wonder synth pop band perhaps the most famous for Forever Young?
1:23.8	Exactly.
1:25.4	Okay. So it's a good one.
1:27.3	Many applications. We are we are all forever young here after
1:32.5	this truly tumultuous and interesting week in American history and global financial history as
1:39.3	well um also I don't want to bury the lead, but Alexandra, you're also about to start your own
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