Eyes on Puerto Rico
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Almost five years after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico is reeling (again) after Hurricane Fiona flooded large parts of the island and left it in the dark. We’ll talk about the big mess behind Puerto Rico’s energy problems. Plus, John Kerry: People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. And, is a beer shortage on the horizon?
Here’s everything we talked about:
- Puerto Rico’s Power System Heads Toward Litigation for Debt Deal from Bloomberg
- “Hurricane Fiona Exposes Puerto Rico’s Failure to Fix Frail Power Grid” from Bloomberg
- “Here’s How Much a New Monthly Mortgage Payment Has Surged in 10 US Metros” from Bloomberg
- “U.S. climate envoy Kerry calls on African nations to help curb emissions” from Reuters
- “Scientists have calculated how many ants are on Earth. The number is so big, it’s ‘unimaginable.’” from The Washington Post
- “Brace for the coming beer shortage” from Axios
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| 0:00.0 | Well, then we should probably just get going. |
| 0:02.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:04.0 | Although I have to send an email now, I can really hear that you're going to be receiving |
| 0:07.0 | an email which I say, I'm in church and I can't check my answer anyway. |
| 0:11.0 | Anyway. |
| 0:12.0 | Do I start today? |
| 0:13.0 | I don't even have a thing. |
| 0:14.0 | No. |
| 0:15.0 | I start. |
| 0:16.0 | You start. |
| 0:17.0 | So I will give you a minute. |
| 0:18.0 | I am Kimberly Adams and welcome back to Make Me Smart. |
| 0:21.0 | Where we make today make sense and the person who's getting his things together is Kai Ristall. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm going to give my believe it, believe it, believe it, believe it together. |
| 0:30.0 | So I got calendar stuff, I got home stuff. |
| 0:31.0 | Anyway, hey, I'm Kai. |
| 0:32.0 | Thanks for joining us on a Monday. |
| 0:34.0 | Let's see. |
| 0:35.0 | We'll do some news. |
| 0:36.0 | We'll do a couple of Make Me Smiles. |
| 0:37.0 | Mine is a little bit more you and then Make Me Smile. |
| 0:39.0 | But I thought it was interesting. |
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