Name that (economic) tune

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🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Not sure how to feel about today’s economy? Perhaps putting it to music will help. Today we’re dedicating the entire show to the economic anthems of this moment. We’ll play a round of Name That Tune with songs our dear listeners submitted. Plus, Kai and Kimberly will share their song picks!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “Is the current job market music to the Fed’s ears?” from Marketplace

- Bleachers: “I Wanna Get Better” on YouTube

- R.E.M.: “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)” on YouTube

- Donna Summer: “She Works Hard for the Money” on YouTube

- “The Real Woman Behind Donna Summer’s Hit ‘She Works Hard For the Money'” from LAist

- Grateful Dead: “Truckin'” on YouTube

- “What’s your ‘economic anthem’?” from Marketplace

- Marketplace: “Your Economic Anthems” on Spotify

Join us tomorrow for Economics on Tap. 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	I think we can go for it.
0:02.0	That's why.
0:03.0	That's why.
0:04.0	It's fine.
0:05.0	It happened.
0:06.0	I don't know.
0:07.0	You're not knowing?
0:09.0	Hello, I'm Kimberly Adams.
0:10.0	Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense.
0:14.0	I'm the guy who's always on time, like early as late in my life.
0:17.0	And I was late to the recording today.
0:19.0	Let's just own it.
0:20.0	Anyway, everybody, I'm Kai, Ristall.
0:21.0	Thanks for everybody for joining us on this Thursday today.
0:23.0	It is the 31st day of August.
0:25.0	Can you believe tomorrow, September Holy Cow?
0:29.0	Ah, but not the 23rd of September,
0:32.0	which we got to wait to get to, because that's the best.
0:35.0	Anyway, today, while I'm talking music,
0:38.0	we're going to dedicate the entire show to the economic anthems of the moment.
0:43.0	It's a song that sum up how we're feeling about the economy.
0:48.0	So we're going to play a little round of name that economic tune, if you will,
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