Tariffs Loom, Tesla Underdelivers

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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“Liberation Day” has arrived. (00:21) David Meier and Mary Long discuss: - When we’ll know if the longer-term tariff plan is working. - How different companies are bracing for impact. - Tesla’s sales slump. Then, (16:23), Fool contributor Jason Hall joins Ricky Mulvey for a look at Texas Instruments and Taiwan Semiconductor. Companies discussed: WMT, TSLA, TXN, TSM Host: Mary Long Guests: David Meier, Ricky Mulvey, Jason Hall Engineer: Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Liberation Day.
0:07.0	You're listening to Motley Full Money.
0:20.6	I'm Mary Long, joined on this Wednesday morning, the Liberation Day of all Liberation
0:25.4	Days by Mr. David Meyer.
0:27.7	David, great to see you, happy to have you.
0:29.7	How you doing?
0:30.7	I'm doing well.
0:31.6	It's great to see you, too.
0:33.6	So today is April 2nd, the day after April Fool's Day.
0:37.8	It's also, as I've mentioned a few times already in this show, it's also Liberation Day.
0:42.5	What the heck does that even mean?
0:44.9	It's a great question.
0:45.8	It's a fair question.
0:47.0	We don't actually fully know.
0:48.8	No, we don't.
0:50.6	But we are set allegedly to find out later today at 4 p.m. Eastern time when President Donald Trump is scheduled to make an announcement from the White House Rose Garden. This event is being dubbed Make America Wealthy again. We're recording this at 11.30 a.m. Eastern. The show won't come out until right during, right after the Make America
1:12.0	Wealthy Again event. So we're not going to talk too much or make too many predictions about
1:17.0	what exactly is going to unfold during that event. But David, I will ask you to kick us off.
1:22.8	Anything you're keeping an ear out for that you're, you're especially going to be paying attention
1:26.6	to or any bets you're making on what exactly might unfold?
1:30.2	We literally have no idea.
1:33.0	It could be anything.
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