Dude, where’s my EV charging station?

Make Me Smart

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🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

idespread access to charging stations is key to getting drivers to go electric. But the businesses who can build those stations still aren’t sure how they’ll make money. Today, we’ll discuss the EV charging station dilemma. Plus, we’ll highlight an investigation into the failures of Florida’s foster care system. And, tell you about the women making history at the men’s World Cup. Then, Kimberly defends her status as a Midwesterner.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “Why America Doesn’t Have Enough EV Charging Stations” from The Wall Street Journal

- “Austan Goolsbee Named Next President of the Chicago Fed” from The Wall Street Journal

- “Innocence Sold: Foster system a pipeline for child sex traffickers” from The Sun Sentinel

- “Referee Stéphanie Frappart Will Lead First All-Woman Team at World Cup” from The New York Times

- “NASA Awards $57M Contract to Build Roads on the Moon” from Nextgov

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0:00.0	You ready boss? Who's the boss in the contest? You're the boss, it ain't me.
0:03.4	Ah, I thought Jake was the boss, but let's do it. Oh yeah, let's do it. I'm in a Jake's writing.
0:07.9	I'm in a rich writing room. Ah, somebody's.
0:12.7	Hey everybody, I'm Kyle Rizzo. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense.
0:17.6	And I'm Kimberly Adams. Thank you for joining us. It is Thursday and we're going to do what we do
0:22.4	on the regular round here, which is some news fixes followed by some smileys. So let's jump
0:28.1	right in. What's your news today, Kai? So I've got two ones a little tidbit, sort of late breaking
0:32.9	as of, sort of midday today, ish in Los Angeles Thursday. Nick Timrose, the economic
0:41.2	supporter of the Fed guy at the Wall Street Journal, broke this one that, or maybe there was an
0:45.5	actually an announcement. There might have been an announcement. Anyway, Austin Gools B, who
0:49.1	chair the Council of Economic Advisors for President Obama, and who was, and is, I suppose,
0:55.2	a professor at the Chicago Booth School of Business is going to be the next president of the
0:58.6	Chicago Fed. And that matters, of course, because the Federal Reserve, the Federal Open
1:03.4	Market Committee on which Gools B will be a voting member starting in January are the ones
1:08.6	who said interest rates. So, so that's sort of an interesting little tidbit. Another tidbit
1:13.0	about Gools B, by the way, first of all, he's a really nice guy. Super guy. Want to stand up
1:17.1	comic competition. He did. He was voted like funniest economist. Yeah, he's a good guy. He's a good guy.
1:22.3	Anyway, so new president of the Chicago Fed coming in in the next couple of weeks. So that's
1:28.4	number one. Number two is, and I think I've said this on the podcast before, it is time for me
1:32.8	to move away from the minivan. We just don't have enough human beings in the house to make
1:36.4	it worthwhile anymore. So we're in the market for an electric car. And there's a great piece
1:40.4	in the Wall Street Journal today about why we don't have enough electric chargers yet. Well,
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