Kevin Hassett
speaker
239 appearances
21 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 19 Apr
Kevin Hassett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's still a small share of GDP.
It's the idea that it's going to be a nuclear winter or something like that is completely irresponsible rhetoric.
I think from policy institutes on both sides of the aisle, the methodology that was used has been universally derided as being non-serious.
I don't know whether you know exactly who came up with the formula, but it allowed you to at least characterize most of these countries as being
their tariffs well above the reality of the situation so that when you say that we're going to do half on them, it was much higher than anyone anticipated.
I think you'd have to concede that this was not the market reaction you were looking for.
There's a way of maybe incrementally trying to accomplish some of the things that the president wants to do in a reasonable, serious way.
And this just almost across the board has caused what you're seeing in the stock market and a lot of head scratching and head shaking on whether anyone really knows what they're doing in this case.
I think your question is so stupid.
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I don't want anything to go down.
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But sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.
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And we have such a horrible... We have been treated so badly...
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by other countries, because we had stupid leadership that allowed this to happen.
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They took our businesses.
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They took our money.
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They took our jobs.
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They moved it to Mexico.
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They moved it to Canada.
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They moved a lot of it to China.
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And it's not sustainable.
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