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Neil Freiman

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Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

They are making autos.

Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

They are making solar panels.

Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

They are making drones.

Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

They are making semiconductors.

Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

So the fact that they make all those low value items and all those advanced manufacturing items is absolutely astonishing economists who have never seen anything like this.

Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

And it's very much a warning shot across about to a lot of countries, especially in Europe.

Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

Macron, Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, just came back from

Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

of a visit to China.

Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

And he said it's hitting the heart of the European industrial and innovation model.

Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

Germany gets five percent of its GDP from auto manufacturing and Chinese cars are surging on the roads there.

Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

This is a huge problem that they're going to have to deal with.

Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

Yeah, top economists in China have said we need to let the renminbi appreciate to bolster our consumers because there is a two-track economy in China right now.

Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

It's factories, it's exporting is doing amazingly well.

Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

Domestic consumption is not doing well at all.

Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

Moving on, you know when you did someone a little dirty, feel bad about it, then buy them a couple beers to smooth things over?

Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

That's kind of what the Trump administration is doing for American farmers.

Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

Yesterday, the president announced $12 billion in aid to struggling US farmers who have seen lucrative foreign markets dry up because of the trade war.

Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

Of course, that's not how Trump framed it.

Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

Publicly, administration officials are blaming low crop prices and higher costs for farm equipment, as well as some Biden era policies as the reasons farmers are hurting.

Morning Brew Daily
Paramount Crashes Netflix’s Party & Trump Bails Out Farmers

Still, there's no denying that farmers have been bruised up from the trade war, specifically those who sell soybeans.