Kyle Risdahl
speaker
281 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 6 Apr
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Appearances
Joe Gagnon is with the Peterson Institute.
He says tariffs start a chain reaction.
Tariffs historically tend to push a country's currency up.
If tariffs make us import less, we use less foreign currency, which makes those currencies weaker and the dollar stronger, which makes U.S.
exports harder.
So imports shrink a bit and exports shrink a bit and the balance doesn't change.
Gagnon says that started to happen in the U.S., but then came a curveball seemingly out of nowhere.
Foreign investors.
investors around the world thinking, do I really want to send my money to America?
That pulled down the value of the dollar, which helps U.S.
exports, which would lower the trade deficit despite the tariffs.
And if all that's not complicated enough, enter the AI boom.
Brad Setzers with the Council on Foreign Relations.
You also are seeing a big increase in imports of computers, of servers.
And so that is why, so far, if you tally up the trade deficit for 2025, you get pretty much zero change.
In New York, I'm Sabri Beneshour for Marketplace.
A couple odds and ends before we move on.
First of all, oil.
Both benchmarks, Brent North Sea and West Texas, bumped up a bit more than 2% today, closer to 2.5% actually, as President Trump in his speech today put a 10-day timer on doing whatever he might be thinking about doing in Iran.
The U.S.
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