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The News Agents - USA

How Trump screwed the world economy

The News Agents - USA

Global

Politics, Government, News

4.3719 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Vast sums of money was traded before President Trump's now famous attempt to announce an Iran peace deal on Monday. The speculation was that those with prior knowledge had capitalised by insider trading.

Today we’re joined by Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman to explain why this sounds highly plausible, and why there’s no ethics investigation even if it’s true.

Later - was Meta and Google deliberating trying to harm children by getting them addicted to the their sites? A jury finds the companies liable in a historic ruling.

The News Agents USA is brought to you by HSBC UK - https://www.hsbc.co.uk/

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0:00.0

This is a Global Player original podcast. And so tonight we have created a new award. We're going to do something we've never done before. We're going to honor him with a new award that we'll present annually from this point forward. But he is the suitable and fitting recipient of the first ever America First Award.

0:22.6

We can think of no better title for what that is.

0:25.6

Who's it going to be? Who's it going to be?

0:27.6

I confess. I contest. Come on. Let's wait.

0:29.6

That's this beautiful golden statue here.

0:32.6

Appropriate for the new golden era in America.

0:35.6

And we want to let you know before we bring the president out.

0:38.0

And the president has done so much for the American people.

0:41.5

And we want to honor him in some small way.

0:44.9

It was the president of the United States being honored with a prize from Mike Johnson,

0:53.0

the Speaker of the House.

0:54.3

And it's a gold statue which can go alongside the other phony award he got from FIFA,

0:59.4

because we know that Donald Trump loves a phony gold statue.

1:03.6

Isn't the lovely thing, though, that it's an annual award,

1:06.2

so maybe he'll get it next year, too.

1:09.1

Welcome to the Newsagents USA.

1:12.5

The Newsagents USA with Emily Maitliss and John Sopal.

1:17.6

It's John.

1:18.6

It's Maitless.

1:19.6

And we're going to start with breaking news about a major ethics investigation

1:24.0

that's going to launch in America now following some very suspicious

1:28.8

trades that took place on the markets on Monday morning 15 minutes before Donald Trump

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