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She’s Turned The Bonds Against Me feat. Alexandra Scaggs

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Alex Scaggs of The Hedge (https://theehedge.substack.com) joins us to talk about the economic chaos unleashed on the world by… Fed Chair Paul Volcker between 1979 and 1982. This episode tries to make sense of the ongoing American trade war with much of the rest of the world - going into the history of the American grand treat bargain, how the character of manufacturing has changed, and the psychiatry of why the guy from Cantor Fitzgerald wants you to stop sending emails and start hitting the girder with the big hammer. Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here:https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows *TF LIVE ALERT* We’ll be performing at the Big Fat Festival hosted by Big Belly Comedy on Saturday, 21st June! You can get tickets for that here!Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

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0:00.0

That's the good thing about our production cycle is this should be out by tomorrow, which

0:21.6

means, as November said earlier before we spend recording, things will only have changed like

0:25.9

by 90 to 98%. Not the usual 160% that we've expected day to day in the last several weeks,

0:34.8

which is good for us.

0:36.5

I think we've really come full circle at this point on the global trade regime.

0:44.8

I'm really enjoying the decades of weeks where decades happen. I think it would be really cool.

0:51.2

If the current administration, if enough guys just call Trump and are just like,

0:56.5

hey, I'm Tim Apple and I need you to exempt my great company from the tariffs. You don't want to

1:01.6

exempt. You don't want to hurt a great American company. He's like, well, no. And if enough people call

1:05.0

him, then he can just completely from first principles and backwards reinvent the Seattle round of World Trade Organization negotiations.

1:13.0

What do we think about that?

1:14.3

Well, the thing is that lasts until the next person talks to him because as we know, Donald Trump.

1:19.5

Yeah, for Donald Trump, like, always, like, inhabits the worldview of the most recent person to talk to him.

1:25.7

And so, like, he talks to Scott Besson or Peter Navarro, and he's back and the tariffs are back.

1:31.7

So I think that's one reason why it's been so back and forth.

1:35.2

Yeah.

1:35.6

It rocks.

1:36.3

I really can't wait for the companies to start realizing that they can compete with each other by being, like, no, listen, this industry is what you really need to tariff.

1:45.1

And so it'll just be like a constantly rotating group of CEOs, tariffing and unterriffing their

1:52.1

competition.

1:53.1

Well, I mean, the thing is, this is the most, one of the more easily buyable administrations,

1:58.0

like more directly.

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