Kimberly's final cheers on "Economics on Tap"
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
As Kimberly gets ready to step into her new role as the host of “Marketplace Morning Report,” her predecessor David Brancaccio joins her to talk about his years on the morning shift and what he’s looking forward to on his new beat covering future effects for Marketplace. Plus, the two swap summer reading recommendations and play a round of Half Full/Half Empty!
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- "Liar's Poker" by Michael Lewis
- "Number Go Up" by Zeke Faux
- "Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson
- "The Sum of Us" by Heather McGhee
- "Public pools used to be everywhere in America. Then racism shut them down." From Marketplace
- "Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI" by Ryan Rolansky and Aneesh Raman
- "Want to make new friends? There's an app for that" from Marketplace
- "Why online courses sold by influencers have become so popular" from Marketplace
- "The Roomba Guy’s Second Act: A Robot You’ll Want to Snuggle" from The Wall Street Journal
- "The Spirit Airlines Comeback Story No One Saw Coming" from Inc.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where none of us is as smart as all of us. |
| 0:12.8 | Thank you for joining us, whether you're watching the YouTube live stream or listening to the podcast. |
| 0:18.1 | Welcome to our Friday Happy Hour episode, Economics on Tap. And in case you missed it on |
| 0:23.9 | yesterday's show, this will be my final Economics on Tap as the host of Make Me Smart. In June, |
| 0:31.1 | I'm stepping into a new role at Marketplace as the host of the Marketplace Morning Report. So today, |
| 0:36.6 | for our last hurrah, I've invited my predecessor, David Brancaccio, to join me. |
| 0:41.4 | You all know him as the longtime host of Marketplace Morning Report, but he's now a special correspondent for Marketplace. |
| 0:48.5 | David, welcome to the show. |
| 0:50.6 | I am so honored to be here during your swan broadcast. |
| 0:57.8 | Well, it would not be much of a swan broadcast without swan drinks, I guess, |
| 1:03.4 | cocktails, mocktails, what you got? |
| 1:06.1 | What I've got, it's pretty obvious, actually, right? |
| 1:10.1 | You have a cocktail. |
| 1:12.1 | I love it. |
| 1:12.9 | No, but when I tell you what it is, this must be what everybody does every week. |
| 1:18.4 | Yes. |
| 1:19.0 | This, of course, given your status as in transition. |
| 1:23.3 | Yeah, it's nice classware. |
| 1:24.4 | It's from Mary's grandmother. |
| 1:26.6 | Mary Brancaccio. |
| 1:27.8 | This, of course, is a last word. |
| 1:31.8 | That's what this cocktail is, right? |
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