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The John Batchelor Show

#tTARIFF AND TAXES. VERONIQUE DE RUGY

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#tTARIFF AND TAXES. VERONIQUE DE RUGY
1930 MOTT STREET

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0:00.0

Have you heard at Matalan, the sale has landed.

0:04.7

There's up to 50% off across women's men's and kids fashion and up to 50% off homewear too.

0:11.5

Shop in store online at matelan.com.com.

0:15.2

And via the app now, Ties and C supply, selected lines only.

0:19.7

I welcome my colleague Veronique de Reggie of the Mercatus Center, George Mason University,

0:25.0

to comment on what we're observing in the markets, not just the turbulence,

0:29.4

but the talk of worse ahead, especially the word recession.

0:33.7

We begin, however, with another tumultuous day on Wall Street.

0:39.4

I'm more taken with the bond market, which is harder to understand.

0:44.1

Because last week after the President's announcement on Liberation Day, for the first two days,

0:50.1

I was told the bomb market looks like it's calm.

0:54.0

It looks like it thinks this too will pass.

0:56.9

That went away this week, and right now,

1:00.6

Veronique tells me the 10 year to watch that, it's at 4.4.

1:06.0

Veronique, a very good day to you.

1:07.5

What does that mean that the bond market is selling

1:10.7

and that the people

1:12.6

who were calm last week are no longer calm? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Well, I mean,

1:18.7

it means that if the plan was for tariffs to get investors to run to safety and buy a lot of treasuries, which would have then reduced interest rates,

1:35.3

it's not working. In fact, I think that the shock of the tariffs has been so violent and so much wealth has been destroyed that a lot of people

1:46.3

who have had to do the opposite. A lot of investors have had to sell treasuries because they

1:52.2

had to patch holes in other places in their portfolios. And so interests are growing up.

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