New year, new supply chain?
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The Lunar New Year is next week, and one listener wonders whether the traditional break that Chinese workers take might help our supply chain struggles. Then, we’ll answer some of your questions about the Free Filing program from the IRS and explore the growing anti-work movement. And Marielle finally shares that cauliflower smoothie recipe!
Here’s everything we talked about on the show today:
- China zero-Covid lockdowns, CNY holiday impact supply chains, ports from CNBC
- “Chinese exports will remain stable despite surging freights, virus disruption” from the Global Times
- How to file your tax return for free after TurboTax exits IRS program from USA Today
- “TurboTax drops IRS Free File program. What that means for you” from CNET
- “Here’s How TurboTax Just Tricked You Into Paying to File Your Taxes” from ProPublica
- “The IRS has a big opportunity to fix the way Americans file taxes” from Vox
- “‘Anti-work’ threads on Reddit are fueling the Great Resignation” from the New York Post
- “Chinese Millennials Are Giving Up the Rat Race to ‘Lie Flat’” from the Daily Beast
- “Snickerdoodle Tahini Date Smoothie” from Ambitious Kitchen
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it's Kai. |
| 0:03.8 | You know, it's been an unpredictable year, but there is one thing you can count on. |
| 0:07.8 | Kimberly and I will be here in your podcast feed with the context and analysis you count |
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| 0:13.4 | We'll help you unpack the news stories of the day and hopefully leave you with a smile. |
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| 0:33.9 | Marketplace.org slash give smart and thanks. |
| 0:38.7 | Yeah, so sorry about, oh, there we go. |
| 0:45.4 | Sorry about your sneezing fence. |
| 0:48.4 | Hi, I'm Mary El Segara. |
| 0:50.1 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart where we make today make sense. |
| 0:53.7 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:55.0 | Hey, I am Megan McCarty, Carino. |
| 0:57.4 | It's fun to be here with Mary El. |
| 0:59.6 | We haven't gotten to hang out in a long time. |
| 1:02.6 | I know. |
| 1:03.6 | It's fun to hang out on the show. |
| 1:06.4 | It's Wednesday, which of course means it is what do you want to know Wednesday? |
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