41: Trump and China's "War of Saliva"
Keynes and Bown discuss a variety of Chinese perspectives of the Trump administration's trade policy.
8 Jun 201821min
40: Steel and Aluminum Tariffs: Trump versus Everyone
Bown and Keynes explain the economic implications of President Trump's decision to apply steel and aluminum trade restrictions on virtually all US trading partners as of June 1, 2018. Countries have a...
2 Jun 201819min
39: Car Crash–Trump Sees More National Security Threats
Keynes and Bown talk with Kristin Dziczek (Center for Automotive Research) about President Trump's new investigation into whether imports of autos threaten American national security. They discuss the...
25 Mai 201822min
38: ZTE, Trump, and China–What's the Fuss?
Keynes and Bown discuss with Yuan Yang of the Financial Times how the US Commerce Department decision to sanction Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE—and its potential reversal by President Trump—aff...
18 Mai 201817min
37: Cottoning on to Trade
Keynes and Bown talk with Professor Claudia Steinwender (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) about her research on the impact of the trans-Atlantic telegraph on trade. New information through the t...
9 Mai 201823min
36: The Railroads Episode: America, India, and Intranational Trade
Keynes and Bown discuss with Dave Donaldson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) his research on how massive railroad projects—across America in the late 1800s and colonial India in the early 1900s...
2 Mai 201829min
35: The Labor of NAFTA
Bown and Keynes explain controversial elements of the ongoing NAFTA negotiations that relate to jobs, wages, and workers. There are tradeoffs in the new proposals for automobile rules of origin, the e...
27 Apr 201820min
34: So You Want To Be a Trade Negotiator
Bown and Keynes sit down with former acting deputy US Trade Representative Wendy Cutler to learn how to negotiate trade agreements. Wendy shares 25 years of experience balancing domestic politics, whi...
20 Apr 201825min
