Markets Plunge With ‘Historic’ Drug Price Cut | Japan’s Economy | Ukraine Peace Talks
Donald Trump’s latest move to slash U.S. drug prices is sending shockwaves through the global pharmaceutical sector. By linking U.S. prices to the lowest international rates via executive order, the former president reignites his “most-favored-nation” policy — and markets are already rattled. Asian drug stocks plunged, and North American firms could be next. Will this bold move reshape healthcare economics, or spark another legal battle?
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00:00 Introduction
00:13 Trump’s Prescription Drug Price Plan Rattles Global Pharma Sector
03:48 Japan’s Economy Likely Contracted in Q1, Raising Recession Fears
06:46 Zelenskyy Agrees to Istanbul Peace Talks
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Drug companies better have some new drugs in the pipeline!!
It's almost like the era of screwing Americans is over. America: always f@cked, never kissed.
I just don't see how there can be a deal about Ukraine. Putin will demand to keep something. He can't go home empty handed, the Russian people will lynch him. But Ukraine won't be willing to give up any of its territory. Would the US let Russia keep Georgia and the Carolinas to get a peace deal?
Reading all of the previous comments…boy is it going to be a l-o-n-g 4 years for some people. Maybe Big Pharma can come up with a pill for TDS. They'd make billions.
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Thank you, Tony!
Price controls never end well generally. Why this will be different?
Apparently Trump needs some popularity. Though it will probably just hasten the removal of his special powers.
Prescription drugs make up 9% of American medical costs.
If you listen close the drug companies gave Trump $100 million dollars to raise the cost of drugs in other countries…
And ours will probably go up again also… !!!
Trump is actually trying to fulfill his campaign promises. Again, more help for the working class that has been abused for decades.
The pharmaceutical price cut is such a win
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Thank you for a quality Monday Market Update video. How does most favoured nation status square with differential tariffs? Heading over now to China Update.
Happy Monday!
Markets did not plunge. Stop reading news and start thinking for yourself
3:30 Congress might be divided, but if Republicans are proposing to reduce drug prices, Democrats will certainly not vote against it, and if Trump says do it, it'll sail through.
A contraction of the Japanese economy, for me at least, is welcome, as the CB is likely to delay or pause interest rate hikes, which directly affect how much I pay for my house.
Americans don’t subsidise other countries, Americans get gouged by Big Pharma
Thanks Tony.❤
So what process will this be enforced through? And how will it pass muster in the courts? There is no mechanism to regulate private markets through executive orders.
what about those special cloth shoes for idiots like Joe Biden who can't walk… are they covered?
It’s about damn time that people in the US stop subsidizing the prescriptions of every other country! Biden had already done this but then Trump cancelled that and now he’s putting in basically the same thing! And Tony, the Congress is NOT divided on the high price of our prescriptions in the US. LET other countries do some of the research along with the US. Luckily, I live close to Mexico and we often go there to get our prescriptions much cheaper. People in the northern US often do the same in Canada. Trump is SO CRAZY! It’s NOT Ukraine that’s not negotiating in good faith!
Price controls in other words. Trumps end run around politics.😂
Trump appears to be negotiating around Putin and Xi trying to reach sane parties in Russia and China to work with. He may have found them in China. They may not yet exist in Russia. If you know your history the allies were talking to a dozen generals, Admiral Karl Doenitz and even Himmler in the last year of the war. Hitler was a dead loss as far as diplomacy was concerned. Himmler pissed off a US soldier escorting him and got shot (he may have made homosexual advances on the soldier). Karl Doenitz was the one in the end to surrender and he got to write his memoir's.
It can be argued that Japan is not in stagflation but has been affected by disasters. Several earthquakes and a lethal tsunami. Insurance, rebuilding and aid counts as positive GDP but adds nothing to real wealth and capital accumulation because of the capital, property and lives destroyed by the disaster. The same can be said for some parts of the Indian ocean rim after the Tsunami there and some parts of China devastated by floods.
Wow, I just saw a video about expats in Japan, some of which were there to take advantage of the cheap health care. I hope this eliminates that need.
It's about time Americans get competitive drug prices
Trump can dictate a price. The company producing the drug will not sell at a loss. He is not good. That role belongs to economic laws.
This isn't Satire anymore. Trump can literally Cure cancer and the left will still bead.
This executive order has no enforcement mechanism.
what is this guy talking about, big pharma went up when they realized this wasnt going to do anything…at least in its current state