Keynes and Bown explain Trump’s rollout of tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese imports and new evidence of global economic turmoil. Read More
Trade Talks, with Soumaya Keynes and Chad P. Bown
A podcast about the economics of trade and policy.
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Focus on US-China
Trump-China Negotiating Dramatics and Even More Tariffs
Negotiations break down, new tariffs go into effect June 2019, and Trump proposes a new US farm subsidy and redistribution scheme.
(Episode 85)
What Would a Trump-China Deal Look Like?
The complexities of negotiating with China over intellectual property enforcement, cyber theft, and the forced transfer of technology arising through joint ventures.
(Episode 65)
Nicholas Lardy on the Chinese Economy
How China's economic development has evolved since 1978, the role of the private sector, the resurgence of state-owned enterprises under President Xi, and why reform today is so hard.
(Episode 70)
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Paul Krugman Talks Trade
The Nobel Prize winning economist joined to discuss NAFTA, China, wages, labor, Trump’s trade policy, and more.
(Episode 66)
How Big Is the USMCA? It's Uncertain
The estimated economic impact of the US-Mexico-Canada trade deal that would replace NAFTA.
(Episode 82)
Woodward. Trump. Fear. Trade Is Bad.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward chats about trade policy revelations in his new book.
(Episode 58)
Soybeans and the Trade War Fallout
As part of the ongoing US-China trade war, Chinese tariffs targeted soybeans, a major American export. After Soumaya visits some farms in Iowa, Keynes and Bown explain the impact of competition from Argentina and Brazil, as well as the yo-yo’ing of soybean prices during the ongoing conflict.
(Episode 74)
Keynes at an
Iowa soybean farm,
February 2019.
Happy Tariffversary
Who is paying for President Trump's tariffs? Reviewing the economic evidence to date on whether it is Americans or foreigners, one year on from the start of the trade war.
(Episode 77)