It all comes down to the (hush) money

Make Me Smart

Marketplace

News, Business

4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump has become the first former president to be charged with a crime. A Manhattan grand jury indicted Trump after hearing evidence about payments given to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels during his 2016 election run. We’ll discuss the significance of the case and what may follow in the days and week’s ahead. Plus, an age-defying story that made us smile.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “Trump indicted by N.Y. grand jury, first ex-president charged with crime” from The Washington Post

- “Donald Trump indicted; 1st ex-president charged with crime” from AP News

- “U.S. Considers Asking Black Americans on Census if They Are Slave Descendants” from The Wall Street Journal

- “High egg prices send profits at largest US producer soaring more than 700%” from CNN

- “Egg Producers Accused of Price Gouging After 718% Profit Revealed” from Newsweek

- “Eggflation rate lower, milk prices decrease, in February 2023” from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

- “Coloring eggs, eating fesikh: how Egyptians celebrate Sham El-Nessim?” from Egypt Today

- “How low unemployment lifts workers at the bottom” from Marketplace

- “Lamborghini’s plug-in hybrid supercar runs for a cool six miles in electric-only mode” from Engadget

- “Japanese Surfer, 89, Still Plans To Be Catching Waves At 100” from Huffpost

Join us tomorrow for Economics on Tap and the cherry blossom festival! The YouTube livestream starts at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time/6:30 p.m. Eastern. We’ll have news, drinks, a game and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0	May I ask when's the last time you took an economics class?
0:05.9	I'm David Brunkaccio, host of the Marketplace Morning Report.
0:08.8	For me, it had been a while.
0:11.5	So that's why I love our new email, Crash Course, E-Com 101.
0:16.5	I've been relearning the basics with Marketplace listeners.
0:20.0	And now it's time for office hours.
0:22.3	Join me live on Zoom April the 25th when I'll ask actual economists,
0:27.6	Wendy Carlin and Samuel Bowles, your E-Com questions.
0:31.3	Register and get the details at Marketplace.org slash Crash Course.
0:40.4	This is Flea for this little light, a podcast about falling in love with music.
0:44.8	I started a nonprofit music school about 20 years ago called the Sovereign Conservatory of Music.
0:50.8	The reason that I started doing this podcast was music education.
0:55.3	I'll be speaking with Rick Rubin, ThunderCat, Stuart Copeland, Margot Price,
1:00.0	Cory Henry, Cynthia Arrivo, Sheila E, and Patty Smith.
1:04.3	Please listen and follow this little light, a presentation of cadence 13,
1:07.9	on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:11.2	Let's do it.
1:18.9	Hello everyone, I'm Kim Rilliettams.
1:20.6	Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense.
1:24.7	And I'm Amy Scott, InferCyRizdall.
1:27.2	Thanks for joining us on this Thursday March 30th.
1:30.8	So today we're going to unpack some of the news of the day and get smiley by the end.
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