Trade Show (UPDATE)
Planet Money
NPR
4.6 • 30.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is Planet Money from NPR. |
| 0:07.0 | It has been kind of a rough four years for people who believe in free trade. |
| 0:11.0 | Who think, you know, people in one country should be able to sell stuff to people in other |
| 0:15.1 | countries without too much trouble. |
| 0:18.5 | As President Donald Trump started a trade war with China, also some trade fights against |
| 0:23.2 | some of our allies. |
| 0:24.8 | He pulled out of the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. |
| 0:28.2 | He ripped up NAFTA and replaced it with something that seems frankly pretty similar, but has |
| 0:32.1 | a different name. |
| 0:33.4 | And now, of course, we're going to have a new president, Joe Biden. |
| 0:36.9 | But Biden has not really said that much about trade. |
| 0:40.0 | He's going to be the president, but it's unclear exactly what he's going to do. |
| 0:43.5 | The United States used to be this beacon of free trade. |
| 0:46.5 | For decades, President after President, Democrats and Republicans negotiated one free trade |
| 0:52.0 | deal after another. |
| 0:54.0 | And now, it's been the complete opposite. |
| 0:57.0 | What happened? |
| 0:58.6 | Hello and welcome to Planet Money. |
| 0:59.9 | I'm Jacob Goldstein. |
| 1:01.3 | And I'm Robert Smith. |
| 1:02.3 | Today on the show, you give us 22 minutes, and we will pack in 240 years of free trade |
| 1:07.5 | history. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.