What The Actual Tariff

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

It’s been total chaos since President Trump announced tariffs last week. Despite the endless reporting on this story, none of it really makes any sense yet. So today, we attempt to make sense of how the tariffs could revamp the entire tech industry and what you can do to deal with this new normal.

You can follow our hosts on Bluesky— Michael Calore is @snackfight, Lauren Goode is @laurengoode, and Katie Drummond is @katie-drummond.

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0:00.0	Katie, welcome to the roundtable.
0:02.7	Thank you so much for having me.
0:04.3	Your permanent seat now.
0:05.9	This is it.
0:07.0	I am your third co-host.
0:09.8	And just so everybody knows, a little PSA here, Zoe Schiffer will be taking over the second
0:15.3	episode of this podcast on a weekly basis, so you will still be hearing from her.
0:19.8	Katie, I'm so glad that the first show you're joining us for is a really positive one.
0:23.8	We're going to talk about personal finance, our 401Ks.
0:29.1	Everything is going great out there.
0:32.2	What's on your mind, aside from tariffs in the economy?
0:35.8	401Ks.
0:36.5	401Ks?
0:37.3	Yeah. I've been thinking a lot about coffee. What about? Aside from tariffs in the economy. 401Ks. 401Ks.
0:37.7	Yeah.
0:40.9	I've been thinking a lot about coffee.
0:41.9	What about it?
0:43.9	Well, the price of coffee beans is going to skyrocket.
0:45.3	It's going to go straight through the roof.
0:48.4	Honestly, I've been thinking about White Lotus, too.
0:56.3	To segue off of Lauren's answer, I've been watching a Netflix program called Temptation Island. So I've been thinking like a little bit about that. It doesn't require you to think that much, but to the extent that it
1:01.3	requires thought. Is that a reality television program? It's a, it's a reality. Yes, it is. I was
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