The Art of the Trade War

Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.6 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Scott and Jessica break down the chaos surrounding Trump’s economic and immigration agendas. First, they dive into Trump’s trade war U-turn: after rattling global markets, he’s hit pause on his “reciprocal” tariff strategy—everywhere but China. They unpack what this 90-day freeze actually means and whether there’s any real strategy behind the whiplash. Next, they turn to Congress, where Trump’s legislative priorities are moving forward—but not without serious drama. With deep Medicaid cuts, clean energy rollbacks, and massive tax extensions on the table, are Republicans undermining their own voters just to make the numbers work? And finally, the administration’s deportation crackdown takes a disturbing turn—adding undocumented immigrants to a federal "death" list and triggering a legal showdown with El Salvador. Follow Jessica Tarlov, @JessicaTarlov. Follow Prof G, @profgalloway. Follow Raging Moderates, @RagingModeratesPod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.2	Welcome to Raging Moderates.
1:03.7	I'm Scott Galloway.
1:04.7	And I'm Jessica Tarlett.
1:05.6	I just came from the Palm Beach Gardens Department of Motor Vehicles where my seven-child
1:14.9	son now has a full-fledged Florida driver's license. Oh, why doesn't he have a English driver's
1:22.3	license? Oh, no, we're not doing that. That's hardcore. You have to put a big... Wrong side of the road?
1:27.0	Yeah, you have to put a big L on your car. Now, they take driving seriously here. No exaggeration. To get his learners permit, you go in. You like say, what's a red light? You're like different than a yellow or a green light. And they're like, here you go. God be with you. And then 10 minutes later, you have a kid, you have your toddler driving your car home.
1:47.8	And then this, he did a driver's test, but it reminds me that Will Rogers joke that I want to die like my grandfather in his sleep, not the passengers in his car screaming.
1:59.7	Oh, that is funny.
2:00.6	That is funny, right? I like that.
2:02.0	Yeah, I remember my driver's justice. Things have changed so much. I got my driver's license. I had to
2:07.7	force my kid to get his driver's line, although he's kind of enjoying driving now. But I got my
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