How short-sighted was Trump's Liberation Day?
Apr 06, 2025•28 min•Ep. 1411
Episode description
US President Donald Trump dubbed it 'Liberation Day', and it seemed like numbers across the North American stock market took the word 'liberate' and headed south. Besides the historic plunging of some of Wall Street's benchmarks as a result of the Trump's latest tariff announcement on April 2, his long-term goal of a stronger America seems more farther in the distance than he might've originally projected.
But what exactly did he project? And was there any sort of input from the big players he's now backing into a corner to make his domestic-grown dreams come true?
Host Mike Eppel speaks to Chief Deputy Economist at Desjardins, Randall Bartlett to make sense of the numbers. We love feedback at The Big Story, as well as suggestions for future
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