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Americans are ready to pay for sanctions on Russia

Make Me Smart

Marketplace

News, Business

4.65.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Today, there’s still really only one story, and that’s Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For a hint about American attitudes toward the conflict, we look to a fresh Washington Post-ABC poll that found that two-thirds of Americans support imposing economic sanctions on Russia for its actions. About half say they would support sanctions even if they result in higher energy prices in the United States. Plus, Kimberly shares some of her thoughts on the future of American jurisprudence following the historic nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. And, of course, it wouldn’t be Economics on Tap without a round of our favorite game, Half Full/Half Empty! We discuss the end of 3G, the return of “Law & Order,” Kai not getting “The Office” and pandemic updates.

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Here’s everything we talked about on the show today:

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm just guessing.

0:07.0

Hey everybody, I'm Kyle Rizdal.

0:09.0

Welcome back to Make Me Smart.

0:10.0

Making today make sense is what we do.

0:13.0

And I'm Kim Brilliettams.

0:15.0

Thank you so much for spending your Friday with us.

0:18.0

Friday is, of course, economics on tap where we have a drink,

0:22.0

discuss some news of the day, and to wrap things up we will play a game of

0:26.0

half full and half empty.

0:29.0

We should come clear here that today is kind of a dry Friday for both me and

0:33.0

Kim Brilliettams.

0:34.0

She's got some driving to do and I've got some things to do.

0:36.0

Yes.

0:37.0

So we're both sober.

0:38.0

So what are you drinking?

0:39.0

Those who can drink more power to you.

0:41.0

I'm not drinking anything.

0:42.0

I'm not a, I'm not a, unless this sounds terrible.

0:45.0

Unless it's alcoholic, I'm not drinking anything.

0:48.0

I'm not a water guy.

0:49.0

I'm not a soda guy.

0:50.0

I'm not a fizzy water guy.

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