The Invisible Hand of Donald Trump
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump’s surprise elevation to the office of president last November stunned the world and electrified the financial markets. Promises to cut red tape, bring huge infrastructure projects to life, and sort out the byzantine American tax system propelled Wall Street to record highs. He has vowed to build a wall, bring jobs home and tear up trade treaties. Will these promises still be delivered? If they are, what might follow?
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| 0:00.0 | From the BBC World Service, welcome to the latest edition of the documentary |
| 0:05.4 | podcast. Every week we bring you a range of stories from our presenters and |
| 0:10.2 | reporters across the world. Please do rate the documentary on your podcast app and leave a comment. Let us know what you think. |
| 0:18.0 | Last week America posted its latest set of economic numbers, |
| 0:22.0 | continuing a trend Donald Trump inherited when he took |
| 0:24.6 | up residents in the White House. |
| 0:26.6 | His plans to make America great again extended the stock market's rise to record highs, the |
| 0:31.1 | Trump bump. But what do we really know about President Trump's economic policies? |
| 0:36.3 | In the invisible hand of Donald Trump, Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator of the Financial |
| 0:41.1 | Times, looks at how much has been revealed since he took |
| 0:44.0 | center stage. |
| 0:46.7 | On this day last November Americans went to the polls to elect their 45th president. |
| 0:56.6 | It is my high honor and distinct privilege to introduce to you the president-elect of the United States and the |
| 1:07.0 | world looked on with shock and amazement at the result. |
| 1:11.4 | Donald Trump. On the campaign trail, Donald Trump made many promises, some you are familiar with. |
| 1:20.7 | We're going to build a wall. It's going to be built. It's not even, believe it or not, it's not even a difficult thing to do. |
| 1:30.0 | And some may have escaped your notice. |
| 1:33.0 | I believe it's time to establish a national goal of reaching 4% economic growth. |
| 1:40.0 | You could use the term America first as a guiding philosophy of Trump's first year economic |
| 1:46.3 | agenda when it comes to issues like immigration, when it comes to issues like trade, you just |
| 1:50.4 | see this consistent theme of how will this benefit the United States. |
| 1:54.3 | We have a clearer idea about what Trumponomics is today than we did eight months ago, |
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