Biden doubling down on tariffs
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 25 May 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
More tariffs from the Joe Biden administration on Chinese goods are on the way, and he gave his blessing to some Trump-era tariffs. We’ll break it down. Plus, why a story about a local public library becoming an adults-only space may be a warning of things to come. Later, we’ll weigh in on Chuck E. Cheese’s animatronic band, whales sinking yachts and “quiet vacationing” during a round of Half Full / Half Empty!
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Biden Extends Tariff Exemptions on Some Imports From China” from Bloomberg
- “Donnelly Public Library announces it will become adults-only library, cites Idaho Legislature’s library bill” from KTVB
- “Employers can offer a new benefit: Matching student loan payments with 401(k) contributions” from Marketplace
- “After Outcry, Chuck E. Cheese Says It Will Keep More Animatronic Bands” from The New York Times
- “The Mad Scientist and the Killer Whales” from Rolling Stone
- “The restaurant reservation resale game is on the rise in New York City” from Marketplace
- “Some younger workers are ‘quiet vacationing’ rather than using PTO” from Marketplace
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| 0:00.0 | It's time. It is time. |
| 0:04.0 | It is time. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello everyone I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:11.0 | It's Friday, May the 24th. I'm Kai Rizdahl. Thanks for |
| 0:14.8 | joining us on the podcast and on the YouTube live stream if you're there. It is, as |
| 0:19.2 | Kimberly said, Friday, so we will do a little weekly happy hour and then proceed from there. |
| 0:25.0 | Yes, as usual we are going to get to some news. |
| 0:28.0 | We're going to take a break and play a game. |
| 0:30.0 | But before we get into it, Kai, what are you drinking? |
| 0:34.0 | Coffee in my wife's Puyabic mug. |
| 0:36.0 | What happened to your mind? |
| 0:38.0 | I'm a fun kind of guy on a Friday afternoon. |
| 0:40.0 | I know, I know, I know, I know. |
| 0:42.0 | Well, what happens is the dishwasher cycle gets messed up and so she doesn't get her coffee mug in the morning |
| 0:46.0 | She has to have the backup mug and so I get the good mug in the afternoon |
| 0:49.9 | Sucks you put that mug in the dishwasher? Yeah, dishwasher safe. |
| 0:54.4 | Oh, I don't put like my hand cast things in the dishwasher. I'm always paranoid |
| 0:59.6 | it's gonna mess them up but... Well, far bigger chance of me dropping it if were I to |
| 1:04.9 | wash it by hand then safely ensconced in in the upper deck of the dishwasher |
| 1:09.9 | truly you know yes Yes. Okay so I do well as I said in the newsletter I have |
| 1:17.3 | box wine from Costco but I saw everybody in the YouTube chat asking how I was going to jazz it up and I had zero |
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