Nvidia Stock Falls in US Brawl with China & Harvard's $2.2B Fund Freeze

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Episode 563: Neal and Toby talk about how Nvidia became the latest victim in the US-China trade war, which could hurt its chip sales. Then, Harvard has stood up against the Trump administration and hopes other elite schools will join their fight. Also, Chinese influencers are flooding TikTok claiming popular name brands and luxury brands can be bought for cheap by going directly to the factories they’re made. Meanwhile, Neal shares his favorite numbers on family business, nepo homeowners, and flying iPhones. Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Visit https://planetoat.com/ to learn more! Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here: https://link.chtbl.com/MBD Watch Morning Brew Daily Here: https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow 00:00 - Spotify Outage 03:10 - Nvidia In US-China Crossfire 07:40 - Harvard vs Trump Admin 11:20 - Chinese Wholesalers Head to TikTok 18:20 - Neal’s Numbers 25:00 - Headlines Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Race the rudder, raise the sails, raise the sales!
0:05.0	Captain, an unidentified ship approaching. Over.
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0:31.3	Good morning, Brew Daily show. I'm Neil Fryman. And I'm Toby Howell.
0:35.3	Today, the gigantic economic stakes of the Harvard versus White House feud.
0:40.3	Then Chinese TikTokers are slinging luxury goods directly from factory floors, but are $6
0:45.8	yoga pants legit?
0:47.6	It's Thursday, April 17th.
0:49.3	Let's ride.
1:00.3	Tap, tap, is this thing gone? Can you hear me? Okay, just checking, because yesterday was a different story. Spotify suffered a widespread outage from about 6.20 a.m. Eastern to nearly
1:07.1	noon, frustrating all of us who wanted to listen to podcasts or our day list in the
1:12.4	morning. I'll say it, Toby, I was pretty much useless without my obsessed Pink Pilates
1:16.8	Princess early morning jams. It was very funny to see all the Spotify listeners come over to
1:22.8	YouTube. It was like two different MBD tribes making contact for the first time.
1:27.6	And it was mostly peaceful.
1:29.2	Some said, hey, it's kind of nice over here.
1:31.0	I think I'll stay.
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