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President Trump's import tax on solar panels will cause flare-ups.

India's leader embraces globalism at Davos and will Spotify's direct listing cause others in the IPO

pipeline to cut out investment banks.

These are the topics we'll be discussing on this week's edition of the views room,

a weekly conversation among Breaking Views columnists about the ups and downs of the world of finance.

I'm Jennifer Sabah, and with me in the studio is my co-host, Anthony Curry.

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Hi, Jen. How you doing?

President Donald Trump slath import tariffs on solar panels and washing machines to help boost his America First agenda. The problem is the move will likely hurt more people than it helps. Joining us to explain the machinations of U.S. trade as our colleague in Washington, Chris Bador. Welcome, Chris. Hi, guys. Great to be here. Yeah, great. Well, so let's start with the basic question here.

Why solar panels and washing machines?

What is such a threat with these items?

Yeah, I've got to say, just as Jim was going through the intro, I started laughing.

It's like this is, you're talking about trade wars and you're talking about washing machines. I mean, it's, it's just sounds absurd. Yeah, it's certainly not the most

intuitive pairing that you could possibly imagine. I think, you know, part of it is not just

the issues of the substance. What are these things? You know, washing machines, solar panels.

It's also the process involved. So Trump is prosecuting

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