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Podcast: Master Investors
Episode: After globalisation
Description: Wednesday, 9 April 2025, saw the U.S. impose a 104% tariff on China. Beijing retaliated and raised its levy on U.S. imports to 84%. Will this tit for tat erode globalisation, or had the world trade model started unravelling years before Trump took office the first time round? Financial economist Victor Hill talks to Sarah Lowther about the end-of-life psychology driving Donald Trump's executive orders and how equities aren't in the dire straits some commentators would have investors believe. Victor compares Trump's actions to the Nixon Shock of 1971 and argues that while tariffs cou...