Budgets show our priorities
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
It’s Monday, and we’ve got a lot of news on our minds. We’ll talk about President Joe Biden’s comments about Taiwan and what Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, has to say about crypto. Then we’re diving into some recent writing about the scale at which the United States funds its military, even as we’ve withdrawn from active conflict in Afghanistan. How that money is spent, and isn’t spent, says a lot. Plus, Texas lawmakers may target business that help employees get abortions. Finally, we’ll consider some pointedly phrased communications for our make me smiles.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Lagarde Says Crypto Is ‘Worth Nothing’ and Should Be Regulated” from Bloomberg
- “Biden: US would intervene with military to defend Taiwan” from the Associated Press
- Taiwan Relations Act
- “No Way Out but War” from the Chris Hedges Report
- “Four Ways to Understand the $54 Billion in U.S. Spending on Ukraine” from The New York Times
- “CBO Releases an Improved Interactive Tool for Analyzing the Military’s Forces and Resources” from the Congressional Budget Office
- “Businesses that help employees get abortions could be next target of Texas lawmakers if Roe v. Wade is overturned” from The Texas Tribune
- Bear spray is not like bug spray from the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation’s Twitter
- A judge has this to say about a Jan. 6 defendant’s request to travel from BuzzFeed reporter Zoe Tillman on Twitter
Your donation powers the journalism you rely on. Give today to support “Make Me Smart.”
Have a question or comment about something you heard on the show? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a voice message at 508-827-6278, or 508-U-B-SMART.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Americans are podcasts we knew we want |
| 0:02.0 | I |
| 0:04.0 | Just |
| 0:08.0 | Hey, everybody have cala rosda welcome back to make me smart make it the day make sense is our thing |
| 0:14.0 | And I'm Kimberly Adams. Thank you for joining us this Monday |
| 0:17.0 | We're gonna do the news and then share a couple of make me smile |
| 0:21.0 | So let's start with the news fix you only have one and I have two so I'll you go first |
| 0:26.0 | All right, I've got two. I've got to I think I |
| 0:29.0 | I don't know you do have to never mind one is one is substantive and one is just oh this is pretty amusing isn't it? |
| 0:36.0 | And I'll do the music one first so Christina LaGuard the |
| 0:39.0 | Used to be the head of the IMF now the head of the European Central Bank was asked in an interview with a Dutch television show this weekend about cryptocurrency |
| 0:47.0 | And she said almost literally cryptocurrency is worth nothing |
| 0:50.8 | It's worthless. It has nothing to back it up and stay far away from it the stay far away from the thing is my addition to what she actually said but then she said |
| 0:59.8 | I do follow it very closely though because my son |
| 1:03.8 | Invests in it. He's a grown man. He can do what he wants, but he invested against my advice and I thought that was just priceless |
| 1:09.8 | I thought that was absolutely priceless and I kind of love that kind of love |
| 1:15.8 | It really captures the dynamic of where we are |
| 1:18.8 | Mom yeah exactly |
| 1:21.8 | Exactly |
| 1:23.8 | So that's yeah, so that's my that my sort of fun-ish one. Here's a substantive one |
| 1:29.8 | And I'm sure y'all have heard the news already today about President Biden saying the quiet part out loud about Taiwan |
| 1:37.8 | When he was in a press conference in Tokyo today and what the president said was heck yes, we're going to defend Taiwan if China attacks |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Marketplace, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Marketplace and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.