How Trump screwed the world economy
3/26/202633 min
Vast sums of money was traded before President Trump's now famous attempt to announce an Iran peace deal on Monday. The speculation was that those with prior knowledge had capitalised by insider trading.
Today we’re joined by Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman to explain why this sounds highly plausible, and why there’s no ethics investigation even if it’s true.
Later - was Meta and Google deliberating trying to harm children by getting them addicted to the their sites? A jury finds the companies liable in a historic ruling.
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First 90 secondsJon Sopel· Host0:01
[digital dinging] This is a Global Player original podcast.
Speaker 10:05
And so tonight, we have created a new award. We're, we're going to do something we've never done before. We're going to honor him with a new award that we'll present annually from this point forward. But he is the suitable and fitting recipient of the first ever America First Award. We can think of no better title for what that is.
Emily Maitlis· Host0:25
Who's it gonna be? Who's it gonna be? Who's it gonna be?
Jon Sopel· Host0:27
No, I can't guess. I can't guess. Come on, let's, let's wait.
Speaker 10:29
[audience clapping] That's this beautiful golden statue here, appropriate for the new golden era in America. And we wanna let you know before we bring the President out- Oh.
Jon Sopel· Host0:37
Oh.
Speaker 10:38
The President has done so much for the American people, and we want to honor him in some small way, some- It was the President of the United States being honored with a prize from Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House.
Jon Sopel· Host0:54
And it's a gold statue, which can go alongside the other phony award he got from FIFA, because we know that Donald Trump loves a phony gold statue.
Emily Maitlis· Host1:03
Isn't the lovely thing, though, that it's an annual award, so maybe he'll get it next year too.
Jon Sopel· Host1:08
Next year too.
Emily Maitlis· Host1:09
Welcome to the News Agents USA.
Jon Sopel· Host1:11
[upbeat music] The News Agents USA with Emily Maitlis and John Sopel. It's John.
Emily Maitlis· Host1:18
It's Maitlis.
Jon Sopel· Host1:19
And we're gonna start with breaking news about a major ethics investigation that's going to launch in America now following some very suspicious trades that took