“Make Me Smart’s” annual holiday episode
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🗓️ 14 December 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
For our final episode of 2024, we’re throwing a holiday party with music, festive hats, drinks and a game. But we can’t forget about the news. The incoming Donald Trump administration is looking into the feasibility of eliminating the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. We’ll get into it. And, we’ll unpack the public rage over the United States healthcare system that dominated the news this week. Plus, how much do our hosts remember about the biggest business headlines of the year?
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Trump Advisers Seek to Shrink or Eliminate Bank Regulators” from The Wall Street Journal
- Opinion | “UnitedHealth Group C.E.O.: Brian Thompson Was Never Content With the Status Quo” from The New York Times
- “UnitedHealth Limits Access to Key Treatment for Kids With Autism” from ProPublica
- “Boeing’s year of turbulence in five charts” from Reuters
- “Why TikTok Faces a U.S. Ban, and What’s Next?” from The New York Times
- “CrowdStrike outage: We finally know what caused it – and how much it cost” from CNN Business
- “SpaceX Polaris Dawn astronauts perform historic 1st private spacewalk in orbit” from Space
- “US ties China in Paris Olympics gold medal count after Americans’ women’s hoops win” from AP News
We’ll be back with new episodes in 2025! In the meantime, you can email us at makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, everyone. I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:15.1 | It's Friday, a very holiday, December 13th. |
| 0:18.3 | Oh, it's Friday to 13th. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm Kyle. Thanks for joining us. Last episode of |
| 0:21.8 | 2024, by the by. It happens to be on Friday the 13th. Okay. We're going with it. |
| 0:29.2 | But anyway, we're celebrating because it's the holidays, end of year. And so we are having a |
| 0:34.5 | festive edition of Economics on Tap. We're going to do some not so festive news, but news nevertheless. |
| 0:40.7 | Take a quick break and then play a new game. |
| 0:43.5 | But first, of course, shall we talk drinks? |
| 0:46.2 | Mr. Risdahl in your wonderful hat. |
| 0:48.3 | What are you drinking? |
| 0:49.7 | Thank you for noticing the hat. |
| 0:50.9 | I've got a soccer game later, so I'm having water, |
| 0:53.3 | although I'd really much rather |
| 0:54.3 | I'd be having a, I don't know, something very strong today. |
| 0:58.0 | Okay. |
| 0:59.0 | Can't do it. |
| 1:00.0 | Can't do it. |
| 1:01.0 | What about you? |
| 1:02.0 | I made myself a cocktail and I put Holly in it because why not? |
| 1:08.0 | Be holiday. |
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