Oil markets eye Russia-Ukraine tensions
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🗓️ 15 February 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Things could get weird in the world of oil if Russia follows through on an invasion of Ukraine, analysts warn. Our hosts discuss how the market might react. Plus, we’ve got plenty of updates on the Winter Olympics and the Freedom Convoy at the Canadian border, and we’ll check into the rocket headed for the moon. Stay to the end to catch our Make Me Smiles.
Here’s everything we talked about on the show today:
- “Oil Markets on Edge as Russia-Ukraine Tensions Drag On” from The New York Times
- Canada Protests Live Updates: Trudeau Declares National Emergency from The New York Times
- “Here’s how much the ‘Freedom Convoy’ has cost the U.S. and Canada” from Fortune
- “At Winter Olympics, virus fight waged with worker sacrifices” from the Associated Press
- “They qualified for unemployment benefits. Then the state asked for the money back.” from The Boston Globe
- “States are telling some people to pay back unemployment benefits” from Marketplace
- “Astronomers now say the rocket about to strike the Moon is not a Falcon 9” from Ars Technica
- Kamila Valieva Can Compete but Won’t Receive Medals from The New York Times
- Curling Stones Are Having Electronic Problems. Here’s How. from The New York Times
- “Erin Jackson brings home gold, first Black woman to win speed skating medal at the Winter Olympics” from NBC News
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, everybody. Anybody home? Anybody? Hey, Kai. |
| 0:03.0 | Feel it. Anyone? There we go. |
| 0:07.0 | Ah, you're killing me. Killing me. God, we're just freaking jobs. |
| 0:11.0 | Hey, everybody, I'm Kai Ristah. Welcome back to Make Me Smart. |
| 0:14.0 | Where, as soon as we're ready, we make today make sense. |
| 0:18.0 | And I'm Samantha Fields. It's what we miss Monday, |
| 0:21.0 | where we catch you up on some stories you might have missed over the weekend. |
| 0:24.0 | Then get to a few Make Me smiles that you are listeners have sent in. |
| 0:28.0 | Alright, so first of all, I'm back after knee surgery. |
| 0:31.0 | I just like to let everybody know it went fine. It's all good. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm glad to hear welcome back. |
| 0:36.0 | Good person. Fine. |
| 0:37.0 | Got my physical therapy gone. So it's all said. |
| 0:39.0 | I want to see this urgent on Thursday. |
| 0:41.0 | Anyway, just because I know everybody's been waiting with baited breath to find out how I'm doing. |
| 0:45.0 | Because I've been gone all the time. |
| 0:46.0 | Anyway, so here's the way this goes on a Monday and most other days. |
| 0:49.0 | Actually, Monday's are different. So we're going to do one big news item. |
| 0:52.0 | And then we'll do a couple of what we miss is over the weekend or early this morning. |
| 0:57.0 | And then we'll do a couple of Make Me smiles by you are faithful listeners. |
| 1:00.0 | And then we will get out the way. |
| 1:03.0 | And I think I think the big news of the day and of frankly, |
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