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What in the World is Happening with Your 401(k) & Tariffs?? | Jessica Yellin with What We Need to Know
10 Apr 2025
401. What in the World is Happening with Your 401(k) & Tariffs?? | Jessica Yellin with What We Need to Know Amanda and Webby Award Winning journalist, Jessica Yellin, delve into the intricacies of Trump's recent tariff policies and their impact on the global economy. -Why manufacturers are even less likely to open factories in America now than before -How tariffs will affect American business, the global space, the stock market and YOUR pocketbook -The resistance to Trump’s tariffs policies we’re starting to see in congress -The reason this is considered the greatest self-inflicted wound on the American economy by any president in history. Jessica Yellin is the founder of News Not Noise, a pioneering Webby award-winning independent news brand -- dedicated to helping you manage your “information overload.” She is the former chief White House correspondent for CNN and an Emmy, Peabody and Gracie Award-winning political correspondent. You can follow her on Instagram at Jessica Yellin. And also, to get real time, clear and brilliant reporting, go to substack.com and search for her page newsnotnoise and subscribe there. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. This conversation with Jessica Yellen is all about how to make sense of the fact that your 401ks are crashing, that the markets are in free fall all over the world, and why that is happening and what you can expect next. We recorded this on Wednesday morning.
And literally the moment we ended our recording, Trump, who had insisted that these tariffs that we're talking about were here to stay and that he would be unswayed and he wasn't backing down and this was not a bluff, quote, I know what the hell I'm doing, end quote, announced a 90-day pause on tariffs to our most friendly countries. Turns out, I guess he was swayed.
We talk a ton in this podcast about how uncertainty is the enemy of business and the markets and the economy and ultimately, our own houses and our own budgets and how our credibility in meaning what we say and saying what we mean as a nation in terms of policy and plans to the rest of the world is at stake with all of this tomfoolery.
It is welcome what Trump did in pausing the 90-day period for the most friendly countries, but it also underscores exactly what we're talking about here on this podcast that you're about to listen to about the administration's literal miscalculations and the incredible damage that they're doing to the reliability of the information on which markets and economies and families depend.
It's also important to note that this 90-day pause that just got announced is only on the highest tariffs. And we talk about that in the podcast. They include tariffs on our top trading partners, but we're nowhere near out of the woods. They've kept in place 10% across the board and they raised tariffs on China to 125%. And we talk about in this podcast, the
implications of that beyond even the economy in terms of international relations and a trade war with China. So listen up. It's all evidence of the same. And hear what you need to know for your wallet and your 401k and your bottom line in terms of what the hell is going on in DC. Thanks. Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things.
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