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🗓️ 25 July 2025
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This week, President Donald Trump said the baseline rate for so-called “reciprocal” tariffs on countries around the world could now land somewhere between 15% and 50%, higher than what was previously floated. But according to Princeton international economics professor Gene Grossman, "it's not clear exactly what the purposes are, and many of them are in contradiction with each other." But first: Since the spring, oil rig count has dipped to near-pandemic lows. What gives?
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1:01.4 | Drill, baby drill is looking more like chill, baby chill. |
1:06.1 | From Marketplace, I'm Sabri Beneshire, in for David Brancaccio. How many active oil rigs would you |
1:12.0 | guess there are in the U.S. Well, we are going to find out later today when oil services |
1:16.5 | and technology company Baker Hughes releases its U.S. rig count. But as of last week, there were |
1:22.4 | around 420 active rigs, which is low, like pandemic-era-level low. |
1:29.0 | And the number of rigs has been falling fast the past few months. |
1:32.5 | Now, during the pandemic, the reason was obvious. |
1:34.2 | The whole shutdown thing was dragging down demand for rigs. |
1:36.7 | But what would be doing that now? |
1:39.5 | Marketplaces Elizabeth Troval has that. |
1:42.3 | The towering steel rigs used to drill oil and gas wells cost producers tens of millions of dollars. |
1:49.0 | And Dan Pickering with Pickering Energy Partners says right now in the U.S. |
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