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A year later, is Trump’s investment in Intel… a win-win?

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[SPEAKER_B] On the program today, the week that was, and honestly, it was a week. From American Public Media, this is Marketplace. In Los Angeles, I'm Kai Ryssdal. It is Friday today. This one is the 24th of July. Good as it always is to have you along. Long, everybody. This has not been, as I think I said a couple of days ago, a week with a whole lot of data in it. But data is not the whole economic ballgame, you know. So we'll have plenty to do for the next 7 minutes or so. Courtney Brown is at Axios. Stacey Vanek Smith is at Bloomberg. Hey, you two.

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[SPEAKER_B] Stacey, I'm going to start with you, and I'm going to start with the tariffs that went into effect at midnight to replace the tariffs that went away at midnight, blah, blah, blah. We all know the details. Here's the thing. Seems to me now that the tariffs, while impactful on an individual basis and with small businesses and big businesses too, they've kind of become like economic wallpaper.

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A year later, is Trump’s investment in Intel… a win-win?

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The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.

A year later, is Trump’s investment in Intel… a win-win?

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.