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Single Best Idea with Tom Keene: Peter Navarro

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🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Tom Keene breaks down the Single Best Idea from the latest edition of Bloomberg Surveillance Radio. 

In this episode, we feature our conversation with Peter Navarro, Senior White House Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing. 

Watch Tom and Paul LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF

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0:00.0

Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News.

0:11.9

A single-vest idea.

0:13.8

What a conversation with Peter Navarro.

0:15.7

He and I have known each other for decades.

0:17.9

He put out a book, and I think it was 1994, that was earth-shaking, a really

0:23.6

aggressive book about U.S. Chinese and relationships, which, you know, began his career

0:29.1

of trade in China. This is a professor at the University of California, Irvine. The way I

0:34.8

construct these interviews is understanding that I'm not the expert. I went to our

0:40.0

Eric Wasson writing with Alicia Diaz, but Eric Watson this morning and Josh Wingrove covering the White

0:46.4

House. And they gave me immediate perspective on the emotion of the politics in this crazy news flow we're having on tariffs,

0:57.4

on NAFTA and all that followed it and on trade.

1:00.7

Here is Peter Navarro on the future of what years ago we knew as NAFTA.

1:06.6

USMCA has some significant flaws in it, and it's going to be re-evaluated in July.

1:16.9

The great Jameson Greer, our U.S. Trade Representative, will be taking the lead on that.

1:23.6

But nothing ever happens in the White House without the commander in chief, particularly on trade.

1:29.4

So as the boss says, let's see what happens.

1:33.1

They're the politics of NAFTA of Mexico and Canada and the United States.

1:38.7

Lots of discussion.

1:39.7

We looked at the first congressional district of Iowa, out I-80 across the river to Davenport.

1:45.3

We looked at Lansing, Michigan's congressional district with two GM factories there as well.

1:53.0

And then at one point, Paul Sweeney said, hey, Peter Navarro, what about credit card rates?

1:59.4

Let's listen.

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