On this week’s The Cause Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch talk about the frantic uncertainty within the financial system as a consequence of President Donald Trump’s varied tariff insurance policies and commerce conflict antics.
03:22—Trump’s tariff uncertainty
26:15—Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) check-in
38:35—Weekly listener query
49:01—5 years since COVID-19
56:12—This week’s cultural suggestions
Talked about on this podcast:
“Trump’s Commerce Struggle With America’s Neighbors Is All Value and No Profit,” by Eric Boehm
“In Speech to Congress, Trump Guarantees Extra Tariff Insanity,” by Eric Boehm
“Trump Loves Tariffs. Fentanyl Is Simply an Excuse.” by Joe Lancaster
“Tariffs Are In Impact. Count on The whole lot To Grow to be Extra Costly.” by Jeff Luse
“How the Looming ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Is Killing the Economic system,” Nick Gillespie
“How Would Milton Friedman Do DOGE?” by Veronique de Rugy
“Sure, Slicing Authorities Waste Is Necessary,” by Veronique de Rugy
“No, HHS Did not Spend $8 Million ‘Making Mice Transgender,’” by Joe Lancaster
“Opposite to What Trump Stated, Even DOGE Does Not Declare To Have Recognized ‘A whole lot of Billions’ in Fraud,” by Jacob Sullum
“Useless Folks Aren’t Bankrupting Us,” by Liz Wolfe
“DOGE and Congress Ought to Take a Chainsaw to Company Welfare,” by J.D. Tuccille
“Hey DOGE: If You Need To Make Your self Helpful, Kill the Federal Power Mortgage Program,” by Jeff Luse
“The Delusion of Homeownership Wealth Creation,” by Anthony Randazzo
“Jay Bhattacharya’s Affirmation Listening to Proves the Lockdown Skeptics Gained,” by Christian Britschgi
“The Nice COVID Rupture,” by Matt Welch
“Two Years To Sluggish the Unfold,” by Matt Welch
“I Cannot Give up New York,” by Matt Welch
“We Will Remorse Not Taking the Financial Results of Mass Quarantine Extra Significantly,” Nick Gillespie
“How the Coronavirus Would possibly Kickstart the twenty first Century,” Nick Gillespie
“Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret Historical past of the Sixties,” Tom O’Neill with Dan Piepenbring
“Shipwrecks, Treasure and Cannon Fireplace-The True Story of an American Privateer,” by Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg
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Audio manufacturing by Ian Keyser
Assistant manufacturing by Hunt Beaty
Music: “Angeline,” by The Brothers Steve
- Video Editor: Ian Keyser
- Producer: Hunt Beaty
