207. What happened on Trump's tariff day

About this episode

The episode discusses President Trump's tariff announcement and its implications with expert guests.

Soumaya Keynes (Financial Times) joins to cohost an emergency episode explaining President Trump's sweeping April 2 tariff announcement. Bown and Keynes turn to Douglas A. Irwin on history, Maurice Obstfeld on the US dollar, and Kathleen Claussen on law to clarify what we know about the tariff actions so far (29:14).

People in this episode

Host: Chad P. Bown

Guest: Soumaya Keynes

Topics covered

• tariffs
• US trade policy
• economic history
• law
• US dollar
• emergency episode

Keywords

• tariffs
• Trump
• trade policy
• US dollar
• economic history
• law
• April 2

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Places: United States

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