Ronald Reagan (archival audio)

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35 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 24 Oct

Ronald Reagan (archival audio)’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Trump Gets Rude Awakening Friday AM as Canada Fights Back · 24 Oct 2025 podcast

Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies.

They are our allies.

We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world, all while cynically waving the American flag.

The expansion of the international economy is not a foreign invasion.

It is an American triumph, one we worked hard to achieve, and something central to our vision of a peaceful and prosperous world of freedom.

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Throughout the world, there's a growing realization that the way to prosperity for all nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition.

Now, there are sound historical reasons for this.

For those of us who lived through the Great Depression, the memory of the suffering it caused is deep and searing.

And today, many economic analysts and historians argue that high-tariff legislation passed back in that period, called the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, greatly deepened the Depression and prevented economic recovery.

You see, at first, when someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs.

And sometimes for a short while it works.

but only for a short time.

What eventually occurs is first homegrown industries start relying on government protection in the form of high tariffs.

They stop competing and stop making the innovative management and technological changes they need to succeed in world markets.

And then while all this is going on, something even worse occurs.

High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars.

The result is more and more tariffs, higher and higher trade barriers, and less and less competition.

So soon, because of the prices made artificially high by tariffs that subsidize inefficiency and poor management, people stop buying.

Then the worst happens.

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