Economic sanctions vs. boycotts

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🗓️ 24 February 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It’s been two years since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the U.S. is imposing new sanctions on Russia in an attempt to weaken the Kremlin. But sanctions aren’t proving to be all that effective. We’ll get into some research weighing how well government sanctions work compared to consumer-driven boycotts. And, Instagram is a popular news destination, whether the social media operation likes it or not. Plus, we’ll play a round of Half Full / Half Empty!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “Instagram’s Uneasy Rise as a News Site” from The New York Times

- “2 Years Into Russia-Ukraine War, U.S. Campaign to Isolate Putin Shows Limits” from The New York Times

- “Biden announces over 500 new sanctions for Russia’s war in Ukraine and Navalny death” from NPR

- “A Theory of International Boycotts” from economist Abdoulaye Ndiaye

- “Google tests removing the News tab from search results” from Nieman Journalism Lab

- “Diners aren’t going to steakhouses just for the steak anymore” from Marketplace

- “25 leap year activities to celebrate February’s bonus day” from Today

- “Review: Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender delivers charm and style” from Vox

- “Amazon Wants You to Pay With Your Palm. It’s a Sneak Attack on Apple and Google.” from The Wall Street Journal

- “This economy is feeling like the ’90s” from Marketplace

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0:00.0	Hey everybody I'm I'm Kai Rizdall. Welcome to Make Me
0:07.0	Hey everybody, I'm Kai Rizdall. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make the day make sense.
0:14.0	Friday the 23rd of February on a day when I have to pick up my own name.
0:18.0	Hey, but you got it out there and I am Kimberly Adams got it on the first try. Thank you for joining us on our
0:26.8	podcast and on the YouTube live stream because it's Friday and the long suffering, Beligard Friday,
0:34.6	we are doing our normal thing on Friday,
0:36.8	which is Economics on Tap, our weekly happy hour episode.
0:41.0	So thanks everybody for joining.
0:43.0	We will, what will we do?
0:46.0	We will check to see what everybody is drinking.
0:48.0	We will discuss the news.
0:50.0	We'll do a little half full, half empty.
0:52.0	I'm kind of
0:52.5	winging in here Kimberly because my phone's ringing and I'm distracted and I'm oh my God it's okay well I have
0:58.8	the chat up in terms of drinks okay and I can go through and I see that people are already predicting
1:06.8	Jason that I will be smug about my landline comments the other day which I'm not well a little bit a little bit but but
1:16.4	but anyway justifiably so remind people why in case they miss the news so the
1:21.1	other day we last week actually when we were doing half
1:24.6	full half empty, one of the questions was were we half full or half empty on
1:29.8	landlines and I was among the minority of being half full on having a landline to prepare
1:36.2	for the potential zombie apocalypse and so was our producer Marissa Cabrera but it turned
1:41.9	out we didn't need to wait for the zombie
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