It's the Brian Laird show on WNYC. I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom.

Coming up in today's show, we'll dig into the mayor's big announcement yesterday

that he will run in the general election in November, not in the primary in June, on an

independent ballot line. Sally Goldenberg from Politico, who broke that story, will be here to

talk about the mayor's decision and how it is upending

the shape of this race. Plus, the linguist John McWhorter has a new book about pronouns,

and it's not all about they, them. He calls me and I a quote, hot mess. Grammar nerds,

it'll be your time to shine in this segment. We'll want to

hear from you, so stay tuned for that. And lastly today, what do you think of the new subway map

if you've seen it? It's the first time it's been updated in at least 45 years. Not everyone

likes it. Our transit reporter, Stephen Nessesson will give us the scoop. But first,

it's April 4th. And as you have no doubt been hearing, President Trump introduced a sweeping

round of new tariffs late in the day on Wednesday, April 2nd, he called it Liberation Day.

So yesterday was the first full day for markets to absorb and respond to these new policies.

And what a response it was. Did you look at your retirement accounts?

Reuters is reporting that companies on the S&P 500 lost $2.4 trillion in stock market value yesterday.

Their biggest one-day loss in value since March 16th, 2020.

That was back when the COVID-19 pandemic was emerging.

There is a lot to unpack here about how consumers will start to feel and

see the impact of these tariffs, recession fears, and how an escalating global trade war stands

to isolate the United States, reversing decades of trade policy that arguably go hand-in-hand

with our foreign policy. So to help us with all of that and to answer your questions in

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