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🗓️ 6 April 2025
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Last week, President Trump announced sweeping tariffs on nearly all countries, including ones that don't have any human inhabitants. In the process, Trump remade the global economy in a single press conference. But the economic theory that Trump is basing this new world order on might be entirely false.
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Guest: Mehreen Khan, Economics Editor, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Taryn Siegel.
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0:34.0 | From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. |
0:38.6 | I'm Manvian Rana. |
0:50.5 | Last Wednesday, on a sunny afternoon in D.C., President Trump walked into the White House Rose Garden. |
1:01.5 | Yeah, so it's 9 o'clock UK time. I was double screening, had a football on one, had Bloomberg TV shout out Bloomberg on the other one. |
1:09.6 | And we've been waiting for this. |
1:11.4 | It was a long day. |
1:12.5 | And financial markets were kind of all over the place. |
1:14.5 | My whole day was just sort of in the anticipation at 9 o'clock. |
1:16.8 | Very, very good news today. |
1:18.5 | And a lot of good things are happening for our country. |
1:21.1 | Please sit down. |
1:22.9 | Trump comes out into the Rose Garden. |
1:24.4 | He's flanked by his usual sort of cabinet ministers. |
1:26.9 | My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day, waiting for a long time. |
1:34.7 | There's an adoring audience waiting for him made up of, I think, US auto workers and other Trump |
1:39.5 | supporters. |
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