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Abdul El-Sayed: “Unlike the stupid tariffs of Donald Trump, which is around the clock tariffs for everyone, I think that…”

Featuring: Abdul El-Sayed, Podcast Host, America Dissected | National

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This is the process by which corporations will literally buy their own stock to artificially raise their stock price, taking money away from the future of R and D and the workers themselves. Number two, I actually think that there's a pathway. Unlike the stupid tariffs of Donald Trump, which is around the clock tariffs for everyone, I think that there's a place for targeted tariffs. If you think about free trade like cancer. I think we need some chemo. And the way that that would work is that they were transparent, specific, directed to particular product lines. (28:55–28:58)

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Asserts that targeted tariffs are preferable to Trump's broad tariffs.

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