Canadian Economist: Trump’s Tariffs Are A Gift To Mark Carney

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2:01Okay. What else is happening? Canada is striking back against the US with tariffs of its own. The new levees range from 15 to 50% covering around $20 billion worth of American goods. Tariffs on US steel, aluminum, and iron products doubled to 50%. And other targeted products include furniture, clothing, appliances, and dairy. The move is payback for the 50% tariffs that Trump levied against Canada last month. Trade talks between the two nations fell apart at the end of August. And now Mark Coney is pledging to quote, hit back against Trump's bullying, quote, dollar for dollar rate for rate. Joining us to discuss what this escalation means for the US and for Canada was speaking with Mike Moffett, Canadian economist and founding director of the Missing Middle Initiative. Mike, it's great to see you again. Thanks for joining us. I'd love to just start at the very beginning.

3:04We haven't talked about the Canada US trade war for a while, but it's an ongoing situation. How did this all begin? How did it flare up again over the summer? And how do we arrive at this moment? It's a great question. I think Canadians are asking themselves that question. Like, what did we do to deserve this? But this has been happening before Trump was elected the first time, or at least before he was inaugurated the first time in 2017. There have been these flare ups from time to time. We've seen the US put additional tariffs, particularly under the second Trump administration on a variety of goods. There was negotiations over the summer. Canada walked away from those. It's not entirely clear what the tipping point was. Part of it is Canada not wanting to negotiate through the media, but sounded like there were some last-minute changes that the Trump administration put on a deal between Canada and the US

4:08that the Carney administration just couldn't abide to. So we find ourselves here today. So those negotiations break down. Mark Carney walks away from them because something that we're not totally clear on wasn't going correctly, at least in his view. And then Trump's decision is tariffs. The negotiations were basically to take those tariffs off. So the Trump administration had threatened these 20 billion dollars in tariffs. Canada had gone to the administration to try and work out a deal. Then we walked back. Again, it's kind of unclear why there's stories around what was in the deal, in terms of automotive, or Canada's ability to sign other trade deals. And like any other country, Canada wasn't just going to sit there when it had tariffs put on it. So the Carney administration kind of matched dollar for dollar. Some of those tariffs are basically reciprocal.

5:08So you put 50% on us. We'll put 50% on you. But others are a little bit more targeted towards swing states, towards areas where Canada often buys not 100% of its imports from the US, where we have a little bit of choice to buy from, say, the US or Japan or the EU. So the idea is that we don't want to raise Canadian prices as much, but instead if Canadians can buy from Japan or EU instead, that should dampen the effect of these tariffs. What is the economic impact of these tariffs at this point? How significant is it for the US economy and then also for the Canadian economy? Well, it's certainly a bigger hit for Canada, where we're proportionately smaller. I've seen Trevor Tum at the University of Calgary's estimated that if these continue for a year, we shave about three to four tenths of a percent off of GDP growth, which isn't fantastic. Now, Carney is the beneficiary of a little bit of luck here, though, in terms of good timing. He's quite popular right now. He's ahead 16 points in the polls.

6:16And one of Canada's biggest exports is oil, and the price of Western Canadian select has gone from about $50 a barrel prior to the actions in Iran to $80 a barrel. So you never want to take a three tenths of a point percentage point hit to GDP, but if you had to do it at some point, now's really not a bad time. It seems as though there's almost a stalemate here between who's going to back down and who's going, I guess, put that pride aside. I'm not sure if that's the right way to look at it, but would you expect that this is something that will continue for the foreseeable future? Well, I certainly hoped on. I hope the Canada and the US can come to a deal. I think there is some hope in Canada that the upcoming midterms might get the US to come forward with an agreement that we can live with. But in the meantime, we've got Prime Minister Karne going to the EU next week. We've heard rumblings of a deal between Canada and the EU, which is not quite at the level of EU membership, but a close integration with the two countries.

7:24So I think that's how Canada is playing it now that we still want a deal with the United States, but we're also exploring Plan B and trying to diversify our trade in the meantime. One of the most viral videos of the week this week has been a video that Trump posted on social media, on truth social. It's like an AI-generated cartoonish video of him beating Mark Korni with a hockey stick on the ice. What is your reaction to that video? It's gone pretty viral. A lot of people were upset about it. How significant is it? And what is Canada's reaction to that video? We're certainly not happy about it, but I think Canadians are trying to take the position that we just shouldn't take the bait, right? That this is an attempt to go to us. So it's one of those things where we start to get angry and then we go, OK, deep breaths. Let's just calm down. We don't, you know, this is what Trump is trying to get from Canadians. So let's calm a little bit.

8:24There's certainly not happy about it. And there is, you know, ironically, when those things happen, there is kind of a rally around the flag and Korni himself gets more popular. So if the administration is trying to force Canada to sign the deal, it's probably the worst possible thing to do because it just makes Korni more popular in the eyes of Canadians and gives Korni more ability to back away from a bad deal. Yeah, that has certainly been my takeaway. It seems as though every time Trump tries to punch basically what looks like down on Mark Korni because Canada is a smaller nation. It's even he's trying to do this make it make his bullying tactic or something. People just like Mark Korni more. They like Canada more. It seems like that is consistently what has been happening. We saw the same thing with changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. It seems as though people are generally more supportive of the quote unquote enemy that Trump wants to make out of Canada.

9:31How popular at this point is Mark Korni and how much of that popularity is a function of Trump's attempts to bully him. I think quite a bit that right now the latest polling I saw from NANOS has the Liberals of Mark Korni's party at 47%. The Conservatives at 31% and like the UK we are a multi party country. So a 16 point lead is massive. And I think a lot of that is all of the folks who aren't necessarily Conservatives and many Conservatives are parking their votes with the Liberals right now. And if you look at polling the response to these terror the counter tariffs. Canadians who are non conservative voters support them 90 to 95%. It's overwhelming. You can't get Canadians to agree on 90 to 95% on anything. They agree on that. And even Conservatives are about 50, 50. So overall it you know I think Canadians like what the Prime Minister is doing and it's showing up in the polling results.

10:39There was also the viral image that Trump posted of a map of the US but then it includes Canada and Mexico and Greenland and it's got like a US flag covering all of it basically like all of this is ours. Is there anyone in Canada who likes him at this point like is that does that even exist. It does. I would say it's about 15% of the population and it's about half of those conservative voters that I mentioned that there is a cohort that likes Trump. They tend to be quite conservative. They tend to have been just sort of frustrated with Canada. They've always wanted Canada to be more like the United States when it comes to you know taxation and social issues and so on. So that does exist but it's you know about an 85 15 split. I think most of us are quite upset with the Trump administration and it has made us unfortunately more kind of anti-American than we were a year or two ago.

11:46Just in terms of consequences and what this will actually mean for the global economy you mentioned how Canada and the EU are now working on a new all encompassing deal seemingly as a response to the lack of partnership between the US and Canada and it seems as though the global order is kind of re-routing itself away from the US. Would you say that that is kind of the direction that we are headed as a global economy. Yeah I think so and here in Canada like even if we had a deal tomorrow there's just so much uncertainty you know the deal would feel like it was written in pencil. So investors and businesses are looking to diversify Canada used to at about 80% of Canadian exports used to go to the United States couple years ago was down to 70 it's now down to about 67%.

12:47So oddly you know the Trump administration has kind of done us a bit of a favor in a strange way because we've always talked in Canada about the need to diversify our trade. Well we're actually doing it now so there is some irony here as much as you know we hate the we hate the tariffs we hate the you know hockey video memes you know we are it is kind of forcing us to do a bunch of things we probably should have done decades ago but just never had the motivation to do it. What are some of the other consequences that you think will come out of this. I mean is it possible that for example the relationship could never really be repaired I mean what are the other long term consequences. I think of the kind of short and medium term I think we're going to see a shift in defense spending I think that may come out of this this you deal so you know there's been this debate in Canada for decades about buying the F-35 you know we might see see that go away. I do think the Canadian US relationship is repairable but it's going to it's going to take a while it will take you know kind of a few administrations of you know goodwill but you know I do think our countries have too much in common you know to be forever at odds but it certainly feels that way right right now like this really does feel like we're going through a messy angry divorce.

14:14And it does feel hard to reconcile but I'm an optimist I'm certainly hopeful that we can get through this. What do you think the legacy ultimately of Mark Connie will be in Canada. Well it's it's tough he's only been in office about a year and a half but it's almost you don't want to compare anybody to Winston Churchill but it does kind of feel like this kind of wartime leader which actually puts Connie in kind of a challenging position because you know right now he's seen as the leader who can get us through this war but is something going to come around and you know become the climate at least of the situation once the war is over so we'll kind of see where we are 20 30 years from now but I think that's how he's seen as is the kind of steady hand who's you know keeping us through through this at a time of time. At a time of intense turmoil. All right Mike my friend is Canadian economist and founding director at the Missing Middle initiative Mike always appreciate your time thank you.

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18:48The organizations test measures 15 year olds in reading math and science for more than 90 countries around the world this years results reveal that average reading scores have fallen 28 points over the past decade equal to roughly a year and a half of schooling. Meanwhile math scores are down 22 points in science roughly 10 points all three are the lowest averages that the OECD has ever recorded America held up better than most countries but that's not saying much US reading scores fell 14 points the lowest score America has ever posted math was flat and exactly the OECD average and science was flat as well the US also had one of the widest gaps between its highest and lowest scoring students. So what does this mean for the American education system and what might it mean for the international economy here to answer these questions we're speaking with John burn murder columnist and the chief data reporter for the financial times John thank you for joining us on property markets.

19:56I'd love to just start with your reactions to this global education report card reading down 28 points in a decade math down 22 it seems like children not just in America but around the world are frankly getting stupider and I guess the question is what that means for the rest of us what do you think? Yeah look I mean the numbers are very striking this is really not very common that we see such a drastic deterioration in a massive international data set like this and I think something is particularly surprising this time is that three years ago when we got the equivalent data the last batch of these results a lot of people said right things have got worse but we've just been through a pandemic schools were disrupted you're going to expect some disruption to the learning process from that. Three years on instead of a partial recovery or even stability we see sustained decline and the numbers you're talking about here we're looking really it over the past decade and a decline equivalent to two years of lost education in mathematics and reading like these are these are really really striking and really really meaningful these are not just.

21:11Meaningless numbers they reflect really measured measurable worst outcomes for young people and children around the world as you say the fact that this is so broad based in terms of the number of countries is really significant as well but this is not a clear story of a particular policy in a particular place this is much much much more broad based on that so yeah I think the concerned reactions we're seeing today so completely justified. So what do you think is driving this at this point I mean things were getting worse and then recently they got dramatically worse I seem a lot of it is covid technology what are the reasons that this is happening. Yeah look there's a bunch of theories out there and again I think the significance of this is that there's real agreement that things are going wrong so the OECD who produced these numbers have also products and commentary accompanying this this is not just sort of people looking for a negative alarming story these are seasoned professionals in the education space who are saying that there are real signs of problems here.

22:19Some are pointing fingers even a potential law for AI so as part of this year or last year's assessments this year's results as part of this they actually looked at the relationship between young people's AI use and their performance and in one particular piece of analysis they found that among children so we're mainly talking about 15 year olds here so among 15 year olds who are pretty regular users of AI their ability to summarize educational texts was significantly worse than people who don't use AI and even when they had tried to adjust for the kinds of things that might explain that like maybe the people who use less AI are also from better off more educated backgrounds even after controlling that there was a link there so one possibility is that some of this is that just in the last year or two. Some young people are using AI to help with their work which means when it's taking away the struggle that would match with a lot of results we've seen from other countries other age groups in terms of the impact AI has on people's ability to absorb and retain information.

23:26In addition you mentioned covid now I certainly think it's possible that covid is still playing a role in the sense that we did see that significant disruption three four five years ago in schools some of that may have been caught back up some of it may have maintained there are other disruptions that have continued from as well so small number of students of school students stopped attending school regularly during their covid lockdowns and never really got back into it so all of that is going on and then I think we do need to point to the role of the broader digital media digital information environment so again this was something that the OECD picked up on in the report themselves they found that an increasing share of young people when they're doing these tests are skimming through them super fast and then getting really bad results. So there's certainly evidence that changes in how people consume information the endless sort of stream of nuggets of information that people now encounter on social media that is very different to the longer form pieces of text that people need to analyze when doing math reading science exams so all of these things do seem to be playing a role.

24:37So the reason I really wanted to have you want to talk about this I mean this is not an education podcast this is a market's podcast we cover finance we cover economics but to me this really is an economic story because if young people are getting super if they're reading scores are going down their math scores are going down their science scores are going down to me that seems like one of the biggest impacts that we'll see is in the future we'll see a huge hit to say GDP growth and economic productivity if we have a society of people who don't really know how to work together how to communicate how to solve all problems in math and science and technology then that to me sounds like an extremely unproductive society to me that has real impacts on the markets and has real impacts on basically everything. So I guess my question to you is is this problem being taken as seriously as I see it by our leaders and to what extent are we taking measures to actually address it.

25:48It's definitely a serious problem and but I would look in it perhaps in a more holistic view I think this is a problem just anywhere in life where the ability to understand details to think about trade offs to think critically about the quality of information anywhere where that comes in this is going to be an issue so that is the economy affects the functioning of political systems it affects how we interact with each other I'm not a more perhaps controversial take as it were that I could give to this is that I think some of this stuff actually may matter less than we think for the economy so an analysis I did recently for the FT I looked at the fact that US rates among adults rates of literacy in America are much lower than they are in the UK but the American economy performs much much better than the British. To the extreme version of this is that among the subset of the American adult population who are functionally illiterate unable to read or understand even quite basic text they earn on average the same amount as the average Brit.

26:58So I think there is this sense now that what matters to drive the economy is how you're very very top performers do educationally and in a country like the US where you in the past at least have taken in some of the most important things that you can do. So I think that we're taking in some of the most highly skilled talented brightest people that ever in the world those are the people who start the companies that shake the economy so to be clear I'm not I'm absolutely not saying that this is not a really important deterioration I think it's massively important it tells us that a lot of things are going wrong. So I think that the impact on the economy I'm actually not entirely sure how this will pan out and I think it's in our all of our interest that young people are getting the instruction they need and are able to absorb the information they need as I say many many many demands of life and but weirdly it may actually be that the economy may be one of the last places that we see to start to show up. And though it does seem to speak to a different economic problem which is the quality problem if you have a smaller subset of individuals who are getting a good education who are actually using their brains and then solving whole problems and then creating immense amounts of wealth.

28:38So I think it's really interesting to get your perspective on the educational inequality that seems to be coming through in this report card not so much for the other countries specifically for the United States. I think that's exactly right. I think inequality inequality is exactly the way that I would look at this and we're seeing a broader widening of inequality in literacy education performance in the US well beyond this result. The various other exams assessments of reading in particular in the US that are done every year and have been done for decades show the bottom 10% really falling away this shows up in many many other exams that are being done in the US. So I think that's exactly right that what we seem to be seeing in this era of greater exposure to digital risks for example and disruptions. So it's the bottom 10 20% who are really falling away from the rest again that has implications to the economy it has implications for politics it has implications for participation in society overall that I really don't think we're headed to a good place if you end up with one in 10 one in five young people and they become adults and these people really just do not or have not been equipped with the skills they need to navigate the complexity of modern life.

29:58So focus on the AI problem as well. The report showed the daily AI uses scored 28 points below those who never use AI meaning that if you're using AI every day you are about a year and a half behind your peers who are not using AI to me this is really an indictment of AI in schools this is also become kind of an intense political topic here in New York City. So Zora and Maldani has opted to ban AI in schools presumably for this reason what are we to make of AI and its impacts on learning for children. Yeah, I think the evidence is starting to mount up on this one. So there was also a study a few weeks back out of the Chinese high schools and universities that showed that students who were using AI to help with their assessments of their homework. They looked like they were doing really well on the homework and these examinations start the course of the year but when it came to the final exam when they didn't have AI they performed really, really badly.

31:00We're seeing this in all sorts of settings we've seen this come out from US universities as well. So I think at this point there's a really solid case that relying on AI as part of the learning process is extremely risky in terms of it essentially being used as a crutch that went taking away people just collapse at the end. I think it's also just incredibly hard to enforce, use of AI in the education setting where that doesn't happen. You can talk about having locked down versions of chat GPT that kind of thing that encourage study hours but ultimately if someone wants to cheat they're going to find a way to cheat. We've seen this with all sorts of different forms of educational technology over the years as well as it's a really, really fine tight rope to try and tread and we don't seem to be able to do that. I think as well we have this problem where a lot of the people in Silicon Valley who create these tools they are people who have always worked really hard at school. They're always hyper focused. They don't struggle with distraction. For then it maybe seems obvious that well you know kids who are giving these tools are going to use them to learn even more.

32:08But I think that is just born out of a real disconnect from what real classrooms are like in modern UK, modern America where just the ability to focus is a huge challenge for a lot of people. And if you have the temptation of this technology that can give you the answer straight away that is incredibly hard to resist. So yeah I think there is mounting evidence that having this available in classrooms is a problem but even having it available outside of classrooms is a problem. And I suspect over the next few years we'll see schools, universities, colleges shift more and more to having rigorously assessed final exams, getting rid of more homework, getting rid of coursework and just having something where the assessment is done away from AI and therefore all the rest of the year is building up to that assessment that is going to be done with NOAA. I would imagine that the argument from AI's defenders would be that if we're entering a world where AI is ubiquitous, where AI is used for pretty much everything, then not only should you have a fluency in AI tools but trying to be good at tasks where you're not using AI isn't really a problem because you're never going to be trying to accomplish tasks without AI.

33:24In other words, these tests aren't really indicative of much because the future is completely different from the present reality we experience today. What would be your view of that argument and do you think it has merits? Yeah, it's a really tricky one because a lot of what you said there from the people who say that is true. It is true that AI, I think at this point we can say AI is going to be heavily embedded into the world of work of the future. It's already heavily embedded in the work of the present in a lot of areas. I certainly use it a lot for example. But the problem is school is where you learn. It's already true you can take maths today. Calculators exist. People in the world of work use calculators, use spreadsheets, that kind of thing. But we still learn to calculate mentally to make those calculations in our heads or on paper as we're going through the education system. It's only once you get to a certain point that the calculator comes in.

34:26So the risk with AI is that we the learning never happens. We we go straight to the AI. We don't learn the depth of knowledge that we might then need to navigate the world later on. But we don't even learn the act of how to learn. We don't learn how to spend an extended period of time with a piece of written work trying to understand what it's saying. We don't learn how to write extensively ourselves and the act of writing is often where we actually come to understand what we think about something. So I think that's the risk and that's why it is different to things like a calculator. So I think you can imagine a world where the education system is done AI free as much as possible in terms of the actual learning experience. But there is then a sort of fast track later on in the education process where people are brought up to speed on the AI tools that they're going to encounter in the world of work. John Bernmurich is colonist and chief data reporter for the Financial Times. John, this was fascinating. Thank you. Thank you.

35:29Two trillion dollars. That is how much money OECD nations now spend every year, not on roads or housing or cancer research, but on interest payments. The bills our governments must pay to simply sustain the amount of money that they continue to borrow. As for America specifically, our annual interest payment is now up to $1.25 trillion. That is equivalent to roughly a fifth of the revenue our government brings in and it has roughly tripled since 2015. It's also more money than we spend on defense. In other words, one of the largest expenses on your tax bill is interest and on our current trajectory, it is only going to grow. How did we get here? Well, it's quite simple. Our leaders have decided that this is something they don't care about. President Trump, for example, campaigned on balancing the budget, but since he took over, he has exploded our annual deficit to roughly $2 trillion. In other words, he is spending $2 trillion more than he is bringing in.

36:38That is why our total national debt has now surpassed $40 trillion. It's also why interest rates continue to rise. The more fiscally irresponsible we appear, the more money our lenders demand for holding our debt. It's simply too risky for them. That is why long-term treasury yields are so high right now. Investors simply don't believe that fiscal responsibility is something we take seriously at all. The upshot of higher yields is, of course, higher interest rates. Higher interest rates, of course, means higher interest payments. To be clear, we have dealt with high rates before in America. We have never dealt with them when our national debt was $40 trillion, and the combination of the two could prove to be quite deadly. According to the Congressional Budget Office, net interest costs in America will likely double over the next decade, which means that soon enough, we will be spending more money on interest than on literally anything else.

37:43America's debt problem is reaching a tipping point. It is worse than ever before. And if we continue to not take it seriously today, then I think the conclusion is quite obvious. We probably never will. OK, that's it for today. This episode was produced by Claire Miller, an Alison Weiss, an engineered by Benjamin Spencer. Our video editor is Brad Williams. Our research team is Dan Jalan, Chris Nodona, Hugh and Mia Sincenario. And our social producer is Jake McPherson. Thank you for listening to Prof G. Markets from Prof G. Media. If you liked what you heard, give us a follow. I'm Ed Elson. I'll see you tomorrow. When you shop pick up at Fred Meyer, you can expect the savings you love and fresh groceries selected just for you. Our associates are committed to getting every detail right, carefully hand picking your items, checking for quality and freshness and packing your order with care.

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