Tariff whack-a-mole
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
After the Supreme Court overturned many of President Trump’s tariffs, his administration implemented new import taxes through a different legal avenue. But those are only temporary. Next up in the White House's game plan to claw those tariffs back? Unfair trade practice probes into dozens of countries — including several U.S. allies. Also in this episode: SNAP recipients sue the USDA over restrictive policies, a federal agency considers regulating prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket, and e-retailers hawk counterfeit skincare products.
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| 1:02.0 | Music From American Public Media, this is Marketplace. In New York, I'm Kristen Schwab in for Kyris-Dahl. |
| 1:05.5 | It's Friday, March 13th, and it's good to be here with you. |
| 1:09.2 | There are lots of eyes on what's happening abroad. Also, |
| 1:12.2 | lots of eyes on a bunch of data we got today about the economy here. So let's get into what we can |
| 1:17.8 | with the handful of minutes we have. Today, it's just me and Rachel Siegel at the Washington Post. |
| 1:22.8 | Hey, Rachel. Hi, happy Friday. Happy Friday. So before we get into specific data numbers that we got today, I kind of want to ask a bigger question. |
| 1:34.4 | And that's, does the data matter? |
| 1:38.0 | Because we're talking about January PCE, January joltz, fourth quarter GDP. |
| 1:43.1 | These numbers are all coming from a pre-war economy. |
| 1:46.9 | They are. And that economy feels like it might be pretty far away. I don't think the data is |
| 1:53.6 | useless. It's always good to know what baseline you're working with. It's good to know what |
| 1:59.7 | instead of information is the freshest snapshot |
| 2:02.5 | that policymakers are going to have. And I should say, it's good to know when the data gets revised. |
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