Has this economy changed how you shop?
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
It’s Friday, which means it’s time for some Economics on Tap! Today we’re wondering if all the talk about supply chain problems six months ago changed our shopping habits and pondering the growing popularity of circus performers on TikTok. Plus, a round of our favorite game, Half Full/Half Empty!
Here’s everything we talked about on the show today:
- Diane Swonk’s tweet on spending
- Julia Coronado’s tweet thread on consumer demand
- The American circus is in decline, but performers thrive on TikTok from Input magazine
- Federal Reserve considers pros and cons of digital currency from Marketplace
- Spotify Removes Neil Young’s Music After Complaints About Joe Rogan from the New York Times
- Lowe’s to test mini Petcos in stores from Marketplace
- She Created Her Own Korean Disney Princess Musical & This Needs To Happen ASAP from Refinery 29
Have thoughts on today’s show? Questions, comments, concerns? Send us an email at makemesmart@marketplace.org or give us a call at 508-827-6278 (or 508-U-B-SMART) and leave a message!
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| 0:38.7 | Okay and I am ready to go. |
| 0:48.7 | Hello all, I am Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:50.7 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart where we make today and I guess the week because it's Friday |
| 0:55.5 | makes sense. |
| 0:56.5 | And I'm Justin Ho. |
| 0:57.5 | And as Kimberly just said, it is Friday which around here means Happy Hour Friday economics |
| 1:03.0 | on tap is it's not around here. |
| 1:05.2 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:06.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.5 | And so today is the day where we play our favorite game, half full, half empty. |
| 1:12.1 | We will also do the news. |
| 1:13.7 | But before we get to any of that, Justin, what are you drinking? |
| 1:17.3 | I was going to wait to open my bottle of my humble bottle of Pacifico on Mike. |
| 1:23.0 | So here I'm going to do it. |
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