Your hot takes on this week's tariff insanity

Make Me Smart

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Today, it’s all YOU! We’re diving into the mailbag to play your voicemails, read your comments, and answer your questions after a wild week of tariff insanity. We’ll hear from YOU on how you’ve been riding the economic uncertainty. Plus, is Trump’s tariff pause, really a pause? And a listener shares what it’s been like teaching elementary students about tariffs.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

“US-China Trade War Tariffs: An Up-to-Date Chart” from the Peterson Institute for International Economics

“The Fiscal and Economic Effects of the Revised April 9 Tariffs” from The Budget Lab at Yale

Million Bazillion by Marketplace

Join us tomorrow for “Economics on Tap.” The YouTube livestream starts at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time, 6:30 p.m. Eastern.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, I'm Kyle Rizda.
0:07.4	Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense.
0:11.1	And I'm Kimberly Adams.
0:12.2	Thank you for everyone for joining us.
0:14.2	If you survived yesterday, today is Thursday, April 9th.
0:17.7	It is time for a listener mailbag episode, we know y'all have lots of questions
0:23.6	and trying to make sense of what's going on. So we're going to do our best playing voicemails,
0:29.1	reading your comments, answering your questions after just, sure, we'll describe it as a whiplash to, you know.
0:37.2	Sure. Sure.
0:38.0	Sure.
0:38.6	That.
0:39.8	All right.
0:40.3	Here we go.
0:40.7	First thing.
0:41.5	Hit it.
0:42.4	Hi, this is Mike from Detroit, Michigan.
0:45.9	Sorry to help with the E-rating.
0:47.6	But what the actual f*** is going on.
0:51.0	Sorry for that.
0:52.4	Appreciate the show.
0:55.4	Look, that's fair.
0:56.7	If we get to do it, they get to do it.
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