Brad Setser
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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Oh look, uh Trump did campaign on an agenda that was tariffs and more tariffs.
We campaigned on
A ten percent across the board tariff and prohibitive tariffs on trade with China.
And at times he did suggest that ten percent was the minimum.
That said, a lot of people close to Trump, a lot of people who found their way into the administration were sending different messages privately to people in the financial markets.
People like Scott Bessent were talking about how the Trump Trump's plan was escalate to de escalate.
The tariffs were a negotiating tool.
They weren't a tool to upend the global economy.
I think what the announcement on Wednesday showed is that
The decision of the administration
Not surprisingly, was to follow President Trump's instincts, not the instincts of his more moderate advisors, to go all in.
And that the goal really is to, as you guys suggested at the beginning, to radically restructure the US and global economies using tariffs as a tool, with some flexibility, perhaps to negotiate at the edges.
But fundamentally, uh, this is a test of what you.
can and cannot do with tariffs and it was there was very little restraint, I would say, apart for strangely enough, Canada and Mexico, USMCA.
on the level of the tariffs.
So the tariffs are set at levels which are just gonna frankly be uh
Well
Obvious point is elections do have consequences.
Um, look, I do think that trade with China is very difficult for most countries that aren't just commodity exporters.
If you look at
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