Market mayhem: how Trump's tariffs debacle could hurt brand America

市场混乱:特朗普关税危机如何损害美国品牌

Money Talks from The Economist

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2025-04-11

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This week America's financial system came dangerously close to a full-blown crisis. Donald Trump's “Liberation Day” tariffs announcement sent markets down by double digit percentages late last week, wiping out trillions of dollars in value. Then, just as suddenly, Mr Trump's decision to pause some of the tariffs sent markets skyrocketing, almost back to where they started. So, crisis over? Or has the Trump administration done lasting damage to the attractiveness of US financial markets? Hosts: Mike Bird and Ethan Wu. Guests: Joshua Roberts, The Economist's capital markets correspondent; and Sonal Desai, chief investment officer at Franklin Templeton Fixed Income. Transcripts of our podcasts are available via economist.com/podcasts. Listen to what matters most, from global politics and business to science and technology—subscribe to Economist Podcasts+.
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  • The Economist.

  • Do you remember last week's episode?

  • My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day.

  • Waiting for a long time.

  • Donald Trump announced the reversal of 90 years of US trade policy.

  • with a gargantuan increase in tariffs.

  • April 2nd,

  • 2025 will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn and the day that we began to make America wealthy again.

  • Well, Wall Street had different ideas.

  • U.S. stock futures plummeted this morning as President Trump's sweeping tariffs announcements are sparking fears of a global trade war.

  • Chaos is exactly the way to describe it here in the pit on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

  • And we were here this morning during the opening bell and we saw the major drop red all across the board.

  • By Friday, the S&P 500 had fallen by more than 10 percent.

  • I don't want anything to go down,

  • but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.

  • Trump refused to back down, adding to the panic.

  • Forget markets for a second.

  • We have all the advantages.

  • We're going to straight out.

  • We're going to become a wealthy nation again.