The tariff countdown
Make Me Smart
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4.6 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
President Donald Trump has promised that a fresh wave of tariffs on April 2 will usher in an era of growth in American manufacturing. But does history bear that out? We’ll explain how steel tariffs under President George W. Bush did more harm than good. And, in response to Trump’s trade agenda, the “buy Canadian” movement is gaining steam. American exporters are already feeling it. Plus, we’ll smile about flowers, parties and the unspoken rules of texting.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “As ‘Buy Canadian’ grows, more US companies say retailers shunning their products” from Reuters
- “Republicans scramble to shield their states from Trump’s next wave of tariffs” from Politico
- “Why steel tariffs failed when Bush was president” from Politico
- “Are You a Hostile Punctuator???” from Time
- “‘God’s way of smiling at us’: Iconic DC cherry blossoms create lasting joy, new beginnings” from USA Today
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| 0:00.0 | Should we do a show? |
| 0:01.3 | Let's... |
| 0:02.0 | Hello, everyone. I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:14.2 | I am finally back after being sick and being on vacation, but Kai is out this week. |
| 0:19.5 | So we're going to have some of your favorite other |
| 0:21.4 | marketplaces joining me while he's away, starting off with the wonderful Sabree Benashore. Hey, Sabri. |
| 0:28.0 | Hi, Kimberly. How is it going? Good to be back here. Thanks, everyone, for joining us. It is |
| 0:33.5 | Monday, very much Monday, March 31st. Yes, another manic Monday. |
| 0:38.8 | Today we're going to get into some news, wrap it up with some smiles. |
| 0:42.6 | But before we get into it, a little fundraising update first. |
| 0:46.4 | So thank you, thank you everybody who contributed to our March fundraiser. |
| 0:51.8 | We met and exceeded our March fundraising goal. And so thank you so much for |
| 0:57.8 | investing in Marketplace. Yeah, give everybody a round of applause. Especially in this current environment |
| 1:05.4 | that we're in. We really appreciate the support. And, you know, it just means a lot when folks kind of come |
| 1:12.4 | through and show up and we know that everybody's got a lot of demands on their resources |
| 1:17.4 | as well as their time and we appreciate you all sharing both of those things so thank you |
| 1:22.3 | really just thank you so much all right let's get to the news. Sabri, what did you bring? |
| 1:28.8 | Okay, so I saw an article describing how Canadians are sort of, they're calling for more |
| 1:40.5 | buy Canadian. They're calling for people to buy Canadian stuff and not buy US stuff. |
| 1:46.1 | And more and more retailers are shunning their products. They talk to a diaper maker in the |
| 1:52.0 | U.S. who is like, yeah, no, they don't want my diapers anymore. And then they talk to the Canadian |
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