Special Coverage from Marketplace: Selling America

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🗓️ 20 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Stop us if you’ve heard this before: We’re in an unprecedented economic moment. But this time really is different. America’s place in the global economy is shifting, and what happens next is going to matter for businesses, consumers and you. This special Marketplace broadcast, hosted by Kai Ryssdal, is focused on helping you understand the scale and scope of the economic change in real time. Here’s what you’ll hear:

Kai interviews experts about what happens when investors and businesses can’t plan, the relationship between tariffs and the return of manufacturing, and what we should think about employment going forward.

On-the-ground stories from small businesses in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington state, California and Iowa.

Reporting from Sabri Ben-Achour, Justin Ho and Kristin Schwab on global trade without the United States, recession forecasting, and the industry that may experience the most tariff pain.

Listener questions about the bond market, tariff revenue, the role of the U.S. dollar, global confidence and much more.

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0:00.0	If you've shopped online, chances are you've bought from a business powered by Shopify.
0:05.6	You know that purple shop pay button you see at checkout?
0:08.4	The one that makes buying so incredibly easy?
0:11.1	That's Shopify.
0:12.1	And there's a reason so many businesses sell with it,
0:15.0	because Shopify makes it incredibly easy to start and run your own business.
0:19.8	Shopify is the commerce platform behind millions of
0:22.2	businesses around the world, from household names like Mattel and Jimshark to brands just getting
0:26.8	started. If you want to see less carts being abandoned, it's time for you to head over to Shopify.
0:32.8	Sign up for a one pound per month trial and start selling today at Shopify.co.com.
0:37.9	UK slash Marketplace 22.
0:40.6	Go to Shopify.com.
0:42.3	UK slash Marketplace 22.
0:47.3	The global economy is by definition global.
0:51.8	Companies and people and countries buy and sell to and from each other to the
0:56.5	tune of trillions of dollars a day. And until April 2nd, that all happened with as little
1:02.7	friction as possible. But the other thing about the global economy is that it's voluntary.
1:08.3	Countries don't have to buy and sell with other countries if they don't want to.
1:12.4	And since April 2nd, with his tariffs and his other trade policies,
1:16.4	President Trump has been closing America off from the rest of the world.
1:20.9	I'm Kai Rizdahl, and this is a Marketplace Special Podcast, Selling America.
1:26.4	You can't take apart a system of global trade that's been
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