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- 0:05Speaker 1: This is what the Flux. I'm Brett and I'm justin.
- 0:08Speaker 1: As Friday, the eighth of November, Doyboy, Chemist Warehouse and
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- 0:45Speaker 1: Three advantageous stories today, Dozy boy, let's do it for
- 0:50Speaker 1: our first. The Governor of the Reserve Bank, Michelle Bullock,
- 0:53Speaker 1: has said that Australia's economy could face serious implications after
- 0:57Speaker 1: Trump's promise to increase terror slowly.
- 1:00Speaker 2: You can just imagine all the countries shaken in their
- 1:03Speaker 2: economic booties right now being so tell me.
- 1:05Speaker 1: More well, Josey Boy. As we know, Donald Trump won
- 1:07Speaker 1: the US election on Wednesday Australian time, and.
- 1:10Speaker 2: A man amongst many of his promised initiatives and concepts
- 1:13Speaker 2: of a plan is an American first approach to the economy.
- 1:16Speaker 1: This means US companies get the red carpet treatment.
- 1:19Speaker 2: And now be man. The Governor of the Reserve Bank
- 1:21Speaker 2: of Australia, Michelle Bullock, has warned that Trump's election could
- 1:24Speaker 2: have adverse effects on Australia's economy.
- 1:26Speaker 1: Get this one. Australian export has sent twenty two billion
- 1:29Speaker 1: dollars worth of goods to the US in twenty twenty three,
- 1:31Speaker 1: twenty four financial years.
- 1:32Speaker 2: We're talking beef and gold and pharmaceutical products are leading
- 1:36Speaker 2: the chart.
- 1:36Speaker 1: And boy Bullock is expecting Trump to slap an extra
- 1:39Speaker 1: ten to twenty percent tariff from all Australian exports to
- 1:42Speaker 1: the US.
- 1:42Speaker 2: But that's not all be man, because Donnie t has
- 1:44Speaker 2: spoken about even bigger tariffs for Chinese exports.
- 1:47Speaker 1: We're talking up to sixty percent tariffs on exports from China.
- 1:51Speaker 1: So this presidency could hit Australia's economy in more ways
- 1:54Speaker 1: than one interesting.
- 1:55Speaker 2: So what is the key learning here?
- 1:56Speaker 1: When tariffs arise, the ripple effect can often be felt
- 1:59Speaker 1: fun and why, sa Beeman.
- 2:01Speaker 2: A ten percent increase in tariffs in Australia probably won't
- 2:04Speaker 2: make a material impact to our economy, but.
- 2:06Speaker 1: A sixty percent tariff on China might impact US a
- 2:08Speaker 1: whole lot more see be Man.
- 2:10Speaker 2: Australia exports a serious amount of goods to China.
- 2:13Speaker 1: In fact, in twenty twenty three alone, Australia exported more
- 2:15Speaker 1: than one hundred and twenty billion US dollars worth of
- 2:18Speaker 1: goods to China.
- 2:19Speaker 2: In particular, we'd be talking iinore and colon gas and
- 2:22Speaker 2: agricultural products. So when Chinese goods become more expensive in
- 2:25Speaker 2: the US, Americans are likely to buy less Chinese.
- 2:28Speaker 1: Goods, which means China is likely to import less raw
- 2:31Speaker 1: material from US In Australia, so.
- 2:33Speaker 2: Be Man, Australia's close ties with China means our economy
- 2:36Speaker 2: is also vulnerable to changes in China's economy.
- 2:39Speaker 1: For our second story, the price of bitcoin has hit
- 2:42Speaker 1: a new record, jumping more than ten percent after Donnie
- 2:46Speaker 1: T's election win.
- 2:47Speaker 2: Many many many hoddlers sitting smugly in their probably dark
- 2:51Speaker 2: rooms right now, So tell me more.
- 2:53Speaker 1: Bitcoin started in two thousand and nine as a payment
- 2:55Speaker 1: system that enables people to send money to anyone in
- 2:58Speaker 1: the world without permission from banks or governments. So bitcoin
- 3:01Speaker 1: started in two thousand and nine as a payment system
- 3:03Speaker 1: that enables people to send money to anyone in the
- 3:05Speaker 1: world and a man, it's.
- 3:06Speaker 2: Not just a payment system, but it's also a store
- 3:08Speaker 2: of value or some bitcoin.
- 3:09Speaker 1: Is called it digital goal Now. Since that founding, it
- 3:12Speaker 1: has grown from a weird range group of viewsers to
- 3:15Speaker 1: becoming pretty darn mainstream.
- 3:17Speaker 2: In fact, in the US, nearly one in five Americans
- 3:19Speaker 2: have dabbled in cryptocurrency.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Now, Jaseyway. Off the back of Donald Trump's election win,
- 3:23Speaker 1: the price of bitcoin has jumped by more than ten
- 3:25Speaker 1: percent to a record high.
- 3:27Speaker 2: We're talking more than seventy six thousand US dollars per bitcoin.
- 3:30Speaker 1: Compare that to its price of one thousand US dollars
- 3:33Speaker 1: in November twenty sixteen, when Trump was first elected ceb Man.
- 3:36Speaker 2: As part of Trump's reelection campaign, he spoke about wanting
- 3:38Speaker 2: to make the US the crypto capital of the world.
- 3:41Speaker 1: But maybe a change in government is good for bitcoin
- 3:44Speaker 1: either way. So what is the key learning here. When
- 3:46Speaker 1: it comes to bitcoin, political promises can send prices soaring
- 3:49Speaker 1: or crash it.
- 3:50Speaker 2: Get this, bee Man. In the six months that followed
- 3:51Speaker 2: the last three presidential elections, bitcoin has triple digit return.
- 3:55Speaker 1: But this time around, Jasey boy, the bitcoin community is
- 3:58Speaker 1: very excited.
- 3:59Speaker 2: Yeah, because Trump's made some big, big, big promises to them.
- 4:02Speaker 1: He promised to make bitcoin a reserve currency.
- 4:05Speaker 2: He's promised to fire the head of the Securities in
- 4:07Speaker 2: Exchange Commission in the.
- 4:08Speaker 1: US who has put a lot of regulation around bitcoin.
- 4:10Speaker 2: And he's promised to push through crypto friendly regulation, whatever
- 4:13Speaker 2: that actually means to it.
- 4:14Speaker 1: That's a whole lot of promises.
- 4:15Speaker 2: But then, man, if he doesn't deliver on these promises quickly,
- 4:18Speaker 2: the euphoria from the bitcoin could turn to disappointment pretty soon.
- 4:21Speaker 1: And we know the price of bitcoin and ethereum for
- 4:23Speaker 1: that matter, and all other old coins can be more
- 4:25Speaker 1: unhinged than Donald Trump's late night tweets.
- 4:28Speaker 2: So they'd be hoping that Trump follows through with his
- 4:30Speaker 2: promises sooner rather than later.
- 4:32Speaker 1: For our third and final story, big tech CEOs and
- 4:35Speaker 1: our coosing up to Donald Trump after his win to
- 4:38Speaker 1: become the next president. Ahead of some very likely big changes.
- 4:41Speaker 1: Everyone scrambling to.
- 4:42Speaker 2: Delete their anti Trump tweets now jell me moore Okay.
- 4:45Speaker 1: In the lead up to the US election, many of
- 4:47Speaker 1: the largest companies chose to side with the Democrats or
- 4:50Speaker 1: the Republicans, and many also chose.
- 4:52Speaker 2: To completely stay out of it at a fear of
- 4:53Speaker 2: the repercussions of backing the wrong horse.
- 4:56Speaker 1: But now that Trump has been re elected, many in
- 4:58Speaker 1: America's corporate community a using down that door to get
- 5:01Speaker 1: Trump Rooney on side.
- 5:02Speaker 2: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, met as Mark Zuckerberg, Apple Tim
- 5:06Speaker 2: Cook all took to social media to congratulate Donnie t and.
- 5:09Speaker 1: It's fair to say, Josey Boyd, the reactions of America's
- 5:11Speaker 1: top tech leaders give us a bit of a glimpse
- 5:13Speaker 1: at how CEOs are pifting their strategy to really appeal
- 5:16Speaker 1: to Big Donald.
- 5:17Speaker 2: Get this the man. Trump has reportedly been making notes
- 5:19Speaker 2: of CEOs and companies he reckons wronged him or backed
- 5:23Speaker 2: his rivals aka his squash list, and so business leaders
- 5:27Speaker 2: who are scared of retribution have been reaching out and
- 5:29Speaker 2: playing nice.
- 5:30Speaker 1: In fact, Josey boy many fortune one hundred CEOs of
- 5:33Speaker 1: publicly addressed the outcome on their personal LinkedIn or Twitter accounts.
- 5:36Speaker 2: So what is the key learning here?
- 5:37Speaker 1: With the Donald Trump victory, the US tech scene is
- 5:39Speaker 1: about to be divided into winners and losers.
- 5:41Speaker 2: During Trump's first term, some leaders stood up to it.
- 5:44Speaker 1: They quit Tech Advisory Council or challenged.
- 5:46Speaker 2: Him on some of his policies.
- 5:48Speaker 1: But they saw that publicly opposing mister Trump harried a price.
- 5:51Speaker 2: In fact, Amazon argued in court that it lost out
- 5:53Speaker 2: on a ten billion dollar government contract because of Trump's
- 5:56Speaker 2: personal vendetta against Jeff Bezos.
- 5:58Speaker 1: And in the lead up to the election, Donnie t
- 6:00Speaker 1: and Jdvans have blasted big tech time and time and again.
- 6:04Speaker 1: But b man, there is one man in tech who's
- 6:05Speaker 1: doing just fine right now. Yeah, that's Trump's biggest fan.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Elon Musks spent hundreds of millions supporting Trump's campaign.
- 6:12Speaker 2: And it's believed that this will give Mask and therefore
- 6:14Speaker 2: Tesla and SpaceX and X more political influence than ever before.
- 6:17Speaker 1: In fact, Tesla's stock was at fourteen percent the day
- 6:19Speaker 1: after the election, and.
- 6:20Speaker 2: Musk's personal wealth jump twenty billion US dollars after the
- 6:24Speaker 2: election win two.
- 6:24Speaker 1: So it does. Boy, it's not surprising to see so
- 6:27Speaker 1: many tech leaders coosing up to Trump.
- 6:29Speaker 2: Because nobody wants their company on the squash leads.
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