Howard Lutnick: “In 1948, we came up with something called the Marshall Plan.”

“I think what's going to happen is we'll make a bunch of money on the tariffs, but mostly this. Everybody else is going to negotiate with us and we will be more fair. In 1948, we came up with something called the Marshall Plan. Right. The world, Germany and Japan were destroyed after World War II, and we wanted to export our economy to them. So we made a rule.” (10:26–10:29)

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