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Jamie Markley, David Van Camp, and Scott Robbins.

We just become best friends.

Yep.

Making sense of it all.

Now I get it.

And having some fun.

Lighten up, Francis.

This is the Markley, Van Camp, and Robbins show.

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The Markley Van Camp and Robbins Show.

Jamie Markley, David Van Camp, Scott Roberts.

Well, man, this seems like good news, huh?

Yeah, well, there's a lot of good news happening right now.

While the U.S. and China have reached a temporary trade deal for 90 days, China lowering tariffs to 10%, U.S. down to 30%.

Treasury Secretary Scott Besson talked about the long-term goal here on MSNBC this morning.

All right.

He wants free trade, free and fair trade. We've had free trade. And as you said,

that has not worked for the American people. There's something called the China shock, which has

gutted our manufacturing sector. No one wants to do a generalized decoupling, but we are going to do a strategic decoupling because we realized during COVID that efficient supply chains were not secure supply chains.

So with steel, with semiconductors, with medicines, with a couple of other strategic categories, we are going to have to become self-reliant again.

That all makes sense.

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