2025-08-07
22 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
We pay a visit to U.S. Space Command, which is a cavernous lair inside a volcano.
Just kidding, it's an office building.
But the kind of dramatic combat it's preparing for is straight out of the movies.
And you'll have noticed that young people are never without a ready supply of water,
often in an enormous bottle, which is often glammed up and personalized.
We look at what's behind this thirst for a liquid asset.
First up, though.
Dozens and dozens of countries just got it in the neck.
Overnight, yet another trench of tariffs from the Trump administration came into effect.
On the social media site MrTrumpOwns, he posted, and you'll have to imagine the all caps here,
it's midnight, billions of dollars in tariffs are now flowing into the United States of America.
Which is true as far as it goes, but the bigger picture is far more complex and troubling.
Donald Trump thinks he's winning from all the tariffs that he's imposing on the world,
but he started something that America can only lose.
Rachana Shanbhogue is The Economist's Business Affairs Editor.
The long-term cost of these tariffs will only mount and America will pay.