Stacey Vanek-Smith
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466 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 2 Aug
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It's results oriented and not process oriented.
It's also interesting to sort of hear it from this perspective because I hadn't actually really thought about it from this way, but it's just like I want to put tariffs in place.
By any means that I need to, you know.
Wait, he can't individualize them?
Why not?
Couldn't you say like, oh, as it turns out, the UK isn't as bad as we thought, but Australia is still super terrible, so we can keep Australia's tariffs in place and... Right.
You know, one of the things I find really interesting about the fixation on tariffs is, to me, it's it's sort of a testament to the power of the American consumer, because like U.S.
consumers, like essentially us buying stuff.
is not only like one of the most powerful forces in the country.
I mean, it's most of the U.S.
economy.
It's a hugely powerful force in the world.
It's like 16 percent of the global economy.
And I think he figured this out, that this is this powerful weapon that people are so...
Like the whole world's economy seemingly has become so dependent on the American consumer that to threaten to cut people off from that or to compromise that is just it's a huge threat.
I mean, it's tantamount to like a weapon and it's a weapon everybody's scared of.
And you can just kind of wield it at will.
But it hurts us, too, I think.
I mean, another thing to consider is not only maybe are we not hurting other countries as much as we think we are, but I feel like we're hurting ourselves.
I've talked to a lot of businesses about this.
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