Episode 4688: American Manufacturing Investment SOARS; Pandemic Treaty 2.0!?
Summary
Apple announces an additional $100 billion in investment in American manufacturing. Steve and Natalie discuss the impact of this investment, and the legacy media's response to it. Plus, a look at the latest on the Russia investigation.
Transcript
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
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I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
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I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that,
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And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
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I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
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If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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It's Wednesday, August 6th in the year of our Lord, 2025.
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It's Natalie Winters hosting today's episode, this edition, this 5 p.m.
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We are awaiting President Trump, who's going to be speaking live from the Oval Office.
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Not sure exactly when, but talking about another $100 billion worth of investment from Apple,
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That is, of course, on top of the, I think, already pre-committed $500 billion coming from Apple.
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And, of course, atop a trove of pro-American manufacturing deals.
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I think the highlight that we've really been focusing on is that Mountain Pass Rare Earth mineral deal
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that the Defense Department, under the leadership of Secretary Hegseth, has really spearheaded.
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We're seeing a lot of converging on the manufacturing and national security front.
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I'm sure the Chinese Communist Party does not feel the same way.
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While we await that, we're going to have Kurt Mills join us,
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talk about the latest going on on the Russia front,
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some investigations into who is helping the CCP buy up American farmlands.
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But until we get there, we've got the one and only E.J. Antony, who, I don't know,
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I want to get to the sort of media's attempts to somehow say that revenue from tariffs is bad
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But before we debunk, obviously, the legacy media,
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your reaction to the additional $100 billion worth of investment from Apple.
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And this is just great news in terms of all this investment pouring in from abroad.
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And also, let's not forget that in addition to the investment pouring in from abroad
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because of the different trade agreements and negotiations that are being worked out right now,
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on top of that, you now have the effects of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, right?
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And among the good provisions in there is the return of full expensing.
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So this is essentially going to supercharge domestic investment.
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So not only do you have, again, that foreign investment coming in, that's great.
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It's also great that now you're seeing more domestic investment, too,
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So you're getting a great one-two punch, essentially, that really, again,
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Investment is the long-run driver of economic growth.
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It's not consumer spending, although we talk about consumer spending a lot
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because that is between two-thirds or three-quarters of the economy,
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and it's a very, very important component, absolutely.
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Investment is what drives economic growth in the long run.
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So the fact that we're getting more investment means we are setting ourselves up
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for a huge increase in economic growth in the future.
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And again, it's really a kind of double whammy in a good sense here
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because you are getting that huge inflow of foreign investment,
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and now you're seeing more domestic investment as well.
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So really, hats off to the president on achieving, again, that kind of one-two punch.
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Well, and I think it's a meaningful investment, too, right?
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Under Joe Biden, you obviously saw parts of the economy expand,
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But I think these dollars have sort of a compounding effect,
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not just on the economy, but frankly, on American society, right?
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Investing in American manufacturing, not just strengthening supply chains,
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but also giving, I don't know, call me crazy, actual legacy Americans,
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native-born Americans jobs, not just these foreigners.
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So I guess naturally, of course, Politico and their corporate-sponsored pals
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There was a really interesting headline this morning,
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how Trump's $150 billion tariff brag could backfire,
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quote, a court could rule the administration has to repay tariff revenue,
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which would undercut one of the president's central selling points
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Now, I would not put anything like that past a rogue judge.
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Maybe it's Boseburg or Barrow Howell, take your pick.
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But could you just sort of walk us through that bizarre logic chain?
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I didn't really, really follow, but is this something that is being discussed?
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Well, I suppose it's certainly possible, Natalie,
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where you do have a lot of judges seemingly doing whatever they want.
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And look, sometimes you will have court rulings that seem like they're outside of the norm
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But more often than that today, what we've seen,
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is you've seen judges going way beyond their authority
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and issuing these blatantly unconstitutional rulings,
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which then ultimately have to get overturned by the Supreme Court.
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But essentially, in terms of this particular one,
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what it's talking about is saying a court could theoretically not only rule
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but then rule that the executive branch must direct the Treasury, essentially,
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to turn over that revenue back to whoever paid it,
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I really want to get back to a point that you raised earlier,
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the difference in investment between Biden and Trump.
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What we saw under Biden, although you're right,
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It was putting money into inefficient projects that were net losers,
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projects that can't ever actually break even over their lifetime
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And so what that, again, investment in quotes here, in air quotes,
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what that investment under Biden was really all about
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as opposed to the investment that we're seeing today,
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It's going to go to additional software development,
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Well, and it's also not even mutually exclusive
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actually beat their quarterly earnings estimates,
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Can you walk us through how it's both Main Street
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and just your average, typical American family,
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not only because it's a wide array of companies,
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but most of us have things like retirement accounts.
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And so it's good when we see those stock prices go up
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because these companies are beating earning estimates.
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and then it made it a lot easier to beat those estimates.
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what did the most recent earnings round look like
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you find that it's still beating those numbers as well.
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It's creating a more business-friendly environment
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that makes it easier to employ people here in America
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where you disincentivize moving production abroad
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And I think that's a particularly sound metaphor
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not the least of which is what you already mentioned,
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and there were more foreign-born workers employed.
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it was all going to those foreign-born workers,
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As you know, five people were seriously wounded
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one of the great and most esteemed business leaders
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and geniuses and innovators anywhere in the world.
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more than they were originally going to invest.