Tariffs For Dummies

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and Donald Trump’s love of tariffs. Jonah has braved the no-man’s land that separates conservatives and libertarians to enlist Scott Lincicome, Vice President of the Cato Institute, to discuss his newest report and provide a crash course on tariffs, inflation, and free market principles. Scott makes the case that comparison between 19th century tariff policy and the contemporary global market is a fool’s errand, predicts the best case scenario of what could be achieved if Trump implements his economic plan, and calls out the hypocrisy of the Republicans bullish on tariffs. Plus: a rare moment of Goldbergian sympathy for Rand Paul, the consequences of modifying supply chains, and the stagnating disconnect between economists and politicians. Jonah antagonizes free trade hardliners, Scott is a good sport, and Newt Gingrich is beclowned; it’s all in a day’s work at The Remnant. Show Notes: —CATO report on tariffs —Phil Magnus debunks tariff myths The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including Jonah’s G-File newsletter, weekly livestreams, and other members-only content—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, Ladies and gentlemen, uh, can I please have your attention.
0:17.0	Can I please have your attention?
0:19.0	Can you diggah! Greetings your listeners your listeners this is Jonah Goldberg host
0:29.5	of the remnant podcast brought to you by the dispatch and
0:32.2	dispatch media.
0:34.6	Very excited to have our, a fan favorite back on the podcast.
0:38.3	It's been a while.
0:39.5	It has.
0:40.5	You want to, the go-to guys, I'm talking about Boris Scott Linsicum who's the
0:45.0	author of our indispensable capitalism there's wordplay in there newsletter at the
0:51.9	dispatch he's also I just learned a in there, a newsletter at the dispatch.
0:52.6	He's also, I just learned, a fancy, shmancy,
0:57.3	vice president at the Cato Institute.
0:59.6	He's no longer the dude for trade stuff at the at Cato he actually has to manage people and
1:07.0	tell people what to do which is you know very unlibertarian of me for sure I mean you should
1:11.7	just be sort of like telling the interns, do whatever floats your boat, let your freak fight fly.
1:16.1	If only it were that easy, Jonah.
1:21.0	I will confess that it's not exactly my management style at the dispatch but I leave all the hard conversations for Steve Hayes.
1:28.0	All right, so I wanted to get you on because you have this big new hoidy
1:33.7	paper that you and Clark Packard did on presidential tariff powers and the
1:39.3	need for reform and we will get to that we will definitely put it in the show notes and anybody out there on the hill or
1:46.4	in grad school or in undergrad who wants a fantastic cheat sheet about everything that is wrong with our tariff policy and how to fix it.
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