Ariana Aspuru
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123 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 3 Sep
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But broadly, the American economy did not tank.
What did happen?
Why was there not the retaliation we expected?
If the economy didn't tank, and I feel like this is a question worth asking, does that mean that the tariffs worked?
Whether the Supreme Court says they're constitutional or not, did they work?
We can sit here and say all day long that the American economy did not do badly last year or over the last 12 months.
But we do know that Americans feel differently about the tariffs.
Many of them say they don't feel like the economy is working well.
Do we trace that back to the tariffs raising prices on certain goods or do we trace that to something bigger going wrong?
One of the pieces of credit that we might give President Trump is that his chaotic nature sometimes illuminates things that we were unaware of.
So in his first term, he puts tariffs on China and people say, actually, China in some some segments of the economy was proving to be a problem for the United States.
And so the Biden administration actually leaves those tariffs on and everybody gets a little bit of a lesson about, hey, you know, the last 20 years were not entirely what we thought there were.
Come on, man.
Did we learn any lessons about the American economy from the Liberation Day tariffs, the past 12 months of tariffs, RIP?
What happens next now that the tariffs are lifted?
Should people expect that prices go down?
Ben Harris of the Brookings Institution, formerly the Assistant Treasury Secretary for Economic Policy, if you can believe that.
Kelly Wessinger and Ariana Espudu produced today.
Amin El-Sadi edited.
Patrick Boyden, David Tadishore engineered.
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