Security Economics
A podcast about the intersection of national security and economics. Hosted by Peter Harrell
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The Trump Administration is exploring the creation of an American sovereign wealth fund to make strategic investments for the U.S.--and possibly to hold stakes in things like TikTok.
With news expected about the fund in the coming weeks, former White House official Daleep Singh joins Security Economics to talk about what a sovereign wealth fund is, how it could work and what it could do, and what the challenges will be.
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Peter and CFR’s Brad Setser discuss Trump's “Liberation Day” tariff announcement, including what Trump’s goals are, how bad the economic impacts might get, and what to expect from foreign retaliation.
In short: the tariffs are broader and quicker than most of us expected, and the impacts might be akin to a $50 or more per barrel oil shock. On the other hand, maybe we'll get quick deals!
Also, Brad has an idea for Eur...
Harvard Professor and former White House Council of Economic Advisors Chair Jason Furman joins Security Economics to talk tariffs, President Biden's economic legacy, national security industrial policy, AI regulation, and export controls. Plus, just a bit of crypto. Furman had a recent article in Foreign Affairs Magazine, "The Post-Neoliberal Delusion," that argued Biden's economic policies actually resulted in less infrastructure ...
Two topics and two guests today. First, more tariffs! And then--can American build ships again? CFR’s Brad Setser joins to discuss all things trade war: whether we can see an emerging Trump tariff strategy, how Trump’s 2017 tax bill combined with new tariffs on pharmaceutical imports means the U.S. government will be paying pharmaceutical tariffs to itself, why Europe should respond to Trump’s tariffs by investing in its own domest...
It was another busy #TariffWeek, alongside news out of the AI Summit in Paris. C.J. Mahoney, who served as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative during Trump's first term, joins Security Economics to talk trade, AI, and how life on the west coast is different from his time in D.C.
C.J. Mahoney currently serves as Deputy General Counsel at Microsoft, but joined the podcast in his personal capacity and was not speaking on behalf of Mi...
Brad Setser, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins host Peter Harrell to make sense of President Trump's Feb. 1 tariff announcements, and what might come next.
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