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Make Me Smart

Our very first episode of the year!

Make Me Smart

Marketplace

News, Business

4.65.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Happy New Year! We’re back from our holiday break to discuss some of the biggest news stories of 2023 so far, including last week’s C-SPAN soap opera. New House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made some serious concessions to win that could spell out a future mess for debt limit and budget negotiations. Plus, why interest rates will likely stay up — for a while — and what that means for the economy. And, some good news about our planet: The ozone layer is healing!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

Do you (like Kimberly) already have some big thoughts about 2023? Share them with us! We’re at makemesmart@marketplace.org, or leave us a message at 508-U-B-SMART.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's cold and rainy and I lied it's not 43 it's probably like 46 but yeah

0:04.4

It's chilly. Yeah, it is chilly and and I gone soft

0:09.9

I'm going soft

0:11.1

Hey everybody. I'm Kyle Rosah. Welcome back to make me smart where we make the day make sense

0:16.6

And I'm Kimberly Adams. Thank you for joining us for the very first new episode of 2023

0:22.4

If you are a new listener here's a little rundown of what we usually like to do on Mondays

0:27.3

So first of all, we're going to dive into some stories of the day also known as the news fix

0:33.2

And then we're going to talk about a story or two that made a smile and

0:38.1

We have so much news to catch up on which we're never going to get to but um first guy

0:44.4

I think you should tell everybody of your adventures

0:47.9

Oh, well look it's raining loss angelist and I live in 115 year old house and we don't get a lot of rain

0:52.8

And so today we all discovered at my house the limits of this structure to protect us from the elements

0:58.2

So there's some flooding and some window casings that are

1:02.1

Getting soft. It's just it's not very pleasant in my house right now. It's not great. It's not great

1:06.9

How's the shed holding out?

1:09.6

So the shed is great actually the shed is dry

1:12.0

It sheds a whole lot newer than the house I should say but the inside of the shed is dry

1:15.5

But as I've said many times there is no heat in this place

1:17.5

So I had the heater on until Jake made me turn it off

1:19.8

You know all for all audio quality. So you know, I'm just

1:23.3

Yes, the things that we do to bring you all the best audio quality we have

1:28.8

somewhere there exists a

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