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Trade Talks

Trade Talks

By: Chad P. Bown
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Chad P. Bown (Peterson Institute for International Economics) hosts a podcast about the economics of international trade and policy. From trade wars to trade deals, this podcast covers trade developments with insights and economic analysis from one of the world's top trade geeks.© Trade Talks 2025 Economics
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  • 207. What happened on Trump’s tariff day

    207. What happened on Trump’s tariff day
    Apr 4 2025

    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).
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    29 mins
  • 206. Paul Krugman talks trade, industrial policy, and Trump

    206. Paul Krugman talks trade, industrial policy, and Trump
    Mar 16 2025

    Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman (City University of New York) joins for a wide-ranging conversation on historical lessons as well as some new thinking about international trade, the “agglomeration economies” driving geographically concentrated production, industrial policy, as well as the policy environment under President Trump (42:12).
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    42 mins
  • 205. Trump's Ukraine minerals deal and China

    205. Trump's Ukraine minerals deal and China
    Mar 11 2025

    A potential US-Ukraine critical minerals agreement is only the latest effort to address security concerns over US sourcing of critical minerals from China. America’s previous top diplomat for critical minerals, Geoff Pyatt (former Assistant Secretary of State, former US ambassador to Ukraine) joins to explain (33.47).
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    34 mins
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