A shadow looms over the Fed
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The results of a new Bloomberg poll indicate that the markets suspect a second Trump presidency would put the Federal Reserve’s independence in jeopardy. We’ll get into what the former president’s advisors have said about his plans for the central bank. And, Republicans are gearing up to challenge upcoming election results while Democrats prepare to counter those lawsuits. Plus, why we want to be Simone Biles when we grow up.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Launch of NASA Astronauts in Boeing’s Starliner Is Scrubbed” from The New York Times
- “A Trump Win Would Threaten Fed Independence, Move Bonds: Poll” from Bloomberg
- “Washington Journal: Stephen Moore on Economic Issues and Campaign 2024” from C-SPAN
- “The legal fight over the 2024 election has begun” from Axios
- “Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift’s Private Jet” from Gizmodo
- “Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From GOP Donor” from ProPublica
- “Simone Biles cruises to 9th national title and gives Olympic champ Sunisa Lee a boost along the way” from The Associated Press
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| 0:00.0 | All right, winching done. |
| 0:04.0 | Winging, that's a nice word. |
| 0:05.0 | I like that word. |
| 0:06.4 | I like that word, it's good word. |
| 0:07.4 | Better than whining. |
| 0:09.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:10.4 | But is it functionally different? |
| 0:12.4 | I think it's the same actually. |
| 0:14.5 | Okay. I don't know. I think it's it's more like a British thing |
| 0:18.2 | Jake's like well, I'm making I push the button since American media seems to love the Brits so much. |
| 0:22.6 | Oh, I know. |
| 0:23.2 | Are you kidding me? |
| 0:24.2 | I know. |
| 0:25.8 | All right, let's go. |
| 0:27.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.4 | Let's go. |
| 0:30.4 | Hello everyone, I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart where we make |
| 0:37.0 | today makes sense. I'm Kyle Rossell. Thanks for joining us. It is Monday today |
| 0:41.2 | the third day of June. Today we are going to do some news and then get to some smiles let's |
| 0:47.7 | start with the news car you should go first so I've got two one. One's just quick update. We were talking the |
| 0:53.7 | other day about Boeing and its challenges, launching its starliner space |
| 0:58.0 | capsule and I was talking about the difference between how Boeing has handled a |
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