Justin Wolfers
speaker
26 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 23 Feb
Justin Wolfers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh, wow.
You know, if the trade deficit this year is bigger than it was last year, and this year we have high tariffs and a trade war, and last year we didn't, I guess it doesn't require a lot of fancy statistics to infer that Trump's tariffs didn't help the trade deficit.
Now, you know, that's beside the fact that the whole thing was a mistake to begin with.
No.
So let's get some numbers and some context for the people at home.
The United Kingdom, wonderful country, lovely people, love myself some fish and chips, don't mind their beer.
But they're our 11th largest trading partner.
They account for three, count them, one, two, three percent of American trade.
And if I took off all my shoes and socks and got four more people in the room, I'd be able to tell you that that leaves 97 percent of American trade absolutely up in the air.
Now, Laura, I want to tell you one more fact that will blow your mind.
Go back six weeks ago.
The average tariff the United Kingdom charged to countries around the world was 1%.
That's the stakes here.
So the best we can do is knock the United Kingdom down from 1% to zero.
And it's already clear we didn't get them to zero.
And along the way, the president is imposing a 10% tariff on the United Kingdom, making it harder for Americans to do business with trading partners over in the old dart.
Oh, the president's a showman.
He's going to tell you that there's all sorts of wonderful things about it.
This is a country with a king and a queen and they have beef eaters and all sorts of things.
But they're not remotely central to us.
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