Money talks: Tariffic!
Money Talks from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 18 September 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. Hello I'm Philip Koggin, author of the Bartleby column here at the Economist. |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome to Money Talks. column here at the Economist. |
| 0:32.6 | Welcome to Money Talks. |
| 0:34.0 | Coming up on the program, |
| 0:35.4 | Trumps, latest Chinese trade tariffs. |
| 0:38.4 | Have they really put the US in a strong bargaining position, |
| 0:41.6 | leading historian Lord Robert Skidellsky on the future of the economy. |
| 0:45.8 | Most economists now accept that the stimulus stopped the slide into another Great Depression, but the point is it was then |
| 0:54.3 | abandoned and the hopes and hurdles for closer business relationships between |
| 0:58.9 | North and South Korea. The first hurdle obviously that everybody has is the fact that it's still |
| 1:03.7 | under sanctions by the United Nations and also additional sanctions by America. |
| 1:08.2 | First, a brand new Trump tax has been announced. |
| 1:12.5 | President Trump is imposing a new round of tariffs targeting around $200 billion worth of Chinese imports. |
| 1:19.7 | Yesterday in a tweet he said that tariffs have put the US in a very strong bargaining |
| 1:24.6 | position with billions of dollars and jobs flowing into our country and yet cost |
| 1:29.6 | increases have thus far been almost unnoticable. |
| 1:33.0 | If countries will not make fair deals with us, they will be tariffed. |
| 1:37.5 | To discuss this terrific news is Henry Kerr, our economics editor. |
| 1:41.8 | Henry, is he right that billions of dollars and jobs |
| 1:44.8 | are flowing into the US as a result of his terrace? |
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