Trump's Dumb Trade War

The Reason Roundtable

News, Politics

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and special guest Eric Boehm lament the beginning of what could become…

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Reason Roundtable, the podcast of Free Minds, free markets, and free
0:10.2	takes.
0:11.2	I'm your host, Peter Souterman, and joining me today are my esteemed co-panelists, Catherine
0:15.1	Maggie Ward and Matt Welch, as well as special guest, Reasons Eric Bame.
0:19.8	Everybody, say hello.
0:21.5	Howdy.
0:22.6	Hello.
0:23.6	Hello.
0:24.8	Happy Monday, Peter.
0:26.0	Happy Monday to everyone but American avocado eaters.
0:30.3	Today we're going to talk about Trump's big new tariffs, the federal government's spending freeze and employee buyouts, a reader question about the president suing a broadcast news network, and the political blame game surrounding a tragic, deadly airplane crash in Washington, plus a few other things as well.
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