Jacob Ward
speaker
1,814 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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If you're the CEO of a company right now and you're trying to make plans about what to do with your money,
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Well, you're not just going to spend your time building an American factory or maybe investing even in a Mexican factory in spite of the tariffs.
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You're going to spend your time trying to get exemptions for...
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your company when it comes to tariffs.
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And then the second thing there, right, is this question of whether you could actually then turn and become an American manufacturer.
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If you were one of these companies, could you do that?
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Well, company after company are telling the White House, we can't actually build the machines we would need to become a manufacturer of our own products.
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unless we can import a certain number of them without tariffs.
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You need the parts and so forth that we bring from abroad in order to even build the kinds of machines that you would need to make the computers and cars and the rest of it that President Trump seems to want Americans to make for themselves.
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There's no plan here, as far as I can tell.
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It seems to simply be a blanket tariff
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which, you know, looks good on a bumper sticker.
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I hit the world with tariffs, but it doesn't actually create the effect, the incentive to build stuff here in the U.S., at least not in the short term, that President Trump seems to intend.
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It also lays the groundwork for what could be some pretty serious corruption.
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If you're talking about – if you're a company that's trying to figure out how to get an exemption from this blanket tariff situation and you see that Tim Cook has been able to do so –
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There are many, many ways right now that you could, in theory, entice the inner circle of the White House to give you that kind of exemption.
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And that's why a couple dozen senators or more sent a letter to the Treasury Secretary and the Secretary of Commerce, along with the U.S.
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Trade Representative, Ambassador Jameson Greer, last week, saying,
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basically saying, hey, your tariffs have created a incredible climate of corruption around the administration.
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They said strategic tariffs can be a tool to promote U.S.
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