Millions of parents, a collective scream

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🗓️ 12 February 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On this edition of Economics on Tap, we’ll get into the whiplash that some parents experienced today after the Food and Drug Administration reversed course on when it might authorize Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 5. Plus, more news from the border of Ukraine as President Joe Biden advises Americans in the area to leave as soon as possible. And to kick off the weekend, we’ve got a round of our favorite game, Half Full/Half Empty, featuring electric trucks, members of Congress trading stocks and a puzzling choice over augmented snacks.

Here’s everything we talked about on the show today:

FDA to Take More Time Reviewing Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine in Young Children from The Wall Street Journal
As with vaccines, equity becomes issue with COVID-19 medicines from the Los Angeles Times
NATO warns of danger in Russia-Ukraine crisis, Biden tells Americans to leave now from The Washington Post
Congress looks to ban lawmakers from trading individual stocks from Marketplace
There’s high demand for electric trucks, but little supply from Marketplace
Streaming services continue to dominate Oscar nominations from Marketplace
Megan Thee Stallion’s new video will debut on a Cheeto from Fast Company

If anything makes you smile over the weekend, or if you have questions or comments, email us at [email protected]. Or leave us a voice message. We’re at 508-827-6278 (508-UB-SMART. )

Transcript

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0:00.0	There it is.
0:03.7	Yay! I hear the music!
0:05.1	Hello everyone, it's Kimberly Adams.
0:08.9	Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we try as usual to make today make sense.
0:14.7	And I am Megan McCarty-Kareno, so happy to join you, Kimberly, for this very special
0:19.9	economics on tap.
0:21.9	Friday the day we kind of do a little happy hour thing.
0:24.7	And today it's a special one, because it's our first YouTube stream of the year.
0:29.3	We took a little hiatus from the YouTube and we are back now.
0:32.3	Yes.
0:33.3	We are back and I can see you and you look great.
0:36.1	And I can also see everyone chiming in in the YouTube chat and on Discord.
0:41.8	And thank you so much for joining us and being patient while we took our little break
0:46.9	and I'm happy to see everybody online, which leads to the very important question for
0:51.7	economics on tap, which is what are you drinking?
0:54.1	Right.
0:55.1	So I have made a Myer Lemon and Ginger shrub.
1:01.4	I actually did not make the shrub.
1:03.5	I got the mix for Christmas, for my Aunt Debbie.
1:07.1	But you know, for those who are unacquainted with shrubs, they're a vinegar based drink.
1:12.5	I added some fennel bitters into mine, which might have been a mistake, but it's a delicious
1:18.5	and refreshing beverage.
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