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You know, outside of the political hurly-burly, you know, the cool, calm market analysts, they're thinking, well, this is going to cause inflation. This is going to stall the American economy. You've now actually got some really respectable people on Wall Street and beyond predicting a U.S. recession. I think in my bones, he's still using tariffs because he wants to influence different outcomes.
He doesn't want Russia and China getting close together, or he wants to help to prise them apart by bringing Russia back at least some way towards the Western orbit. But the rhetoric coming out of China is unlike anything I've ever seen in 20 years. If you mess with China in the way it is, then you could do irreparable damage. You could spark military conflagration. That's my concern.
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Liam Halligan, our go-to guy for all things economics. We want to talk to you about the tariffs. We want to talk to you about the British economy. And you have a very particular insight into the civil war that's happening inside of reform as well. We'll touch on that at the end. But first of all, let's talk about the Trump tariffs.
One of the things I think quite a lot of us assumed is this is just talk, right? He's going to claim he's going to put some tariffs on in order to get people to do what he wants, but we're not actually going to have tariffs. Is that what's happening, or are we actually going to have a trade war of the kind that people fear?
Well, it's the old sage's response to anything that Trump does, isn't it? Take him seriously, but not literally. This is just a bargaining ploy. And I still think there is an element of that. But in order to be taken seriously, if not literally, he has to at least put some tariffs on for a while.
And yet what we're seeing is even though he says, you know, tariffs are the most beautiful work in the dictionary... I love tariffs. His actions suggest that he's actually blowing hot and cold, except, it seems, when it comes to China. And that's my proviso. We'll come on to that. So obviously, he talked about 25% tariffs on both Canada and Mexico in his inauguration speech.
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