The Real History of Tariffs
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
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🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The sky is falling…or is it? Breitbart finance editor John Carney explains how Reagan oversaw a sharp stock dip followed by a boom, debunks the idea that tariffs caused the Great Depression, and looks at what Trump's long-term trade strategy might be.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Andrew Colvin' in for the one and only Charlie Kirk, who is out on assignment. |
| 0:04.6 | He's in Illinois at another campus stop, our biggest one yet. He'll have more for you tomorrow. |
| 0:09.6 | In the meantime, we got lots of tariff news. The markets rebound. What's causing that? What's |
| 0:14.9 | behind it? And then we bring on John Carney from Breitbart, who is the tariff expert at brightbart.com. |
| 0:22.4 | Check him out. |
| 0:23.9 | We talk about what ultimately is the president's goal here. |
| 0:27.7 | And then we talk about Smoot Hawley in the 1930s and Reagan and protectionism. |
| 0:32.7 | Does it work or does it not work? |
| 0:34.7 | Very fascinating conversation. |
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| 0:53.8 | That's members.com. Buckle up. Here |
| 0:56.9 | we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. |
| 1:01.5 | I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. |
| 1:08.1 | I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. |
| 1:12.3 | He's done an amazing job. |
| 1:14.0 | Building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. |
| 1:18.6 | We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, |
| 1:23.8 | and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. |
| 1:28.7 | That's why we are here. |
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