Political campaigns are secretly talking to PACs

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🗓️ 14 May 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

For today’s Economics on Tap, we talk about a sneaky way campaigns are communicating with super PACS. Coordination between these big-time political action committees and campaigns is illegal, but a new practice called redboxing seems like a loophole. We’ll talk about it. Plus, we discuss the debate about facial recognition technology and follow up on a conversation we had yesterday about the news on sudden infant death syndrome. Before we leave, we’ll play a round of Half Full/Half Empty, featuring a piece of portable music history.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

“Voters Need to Know What ‘Redboxing’ Is and How It Undermines Democracy” from Campaign Legal Center
“Enzyme in babies’ blood linked to risk of sudden infant death syndrome” from The Guardian
“U.S. cities are backing off banning facial recognition as crime rises” from Reuters
“Why Fed might not be too upset when stocks fall” from Marketplace
“Facebook reportedly already running out of money for Metaverse” from Futurism
“Has collective bargaining come to Congress?” from Marketplace
“End of an Era: Apple Discontinues Its Last iPod Model” from Bloomberg
“Heinz working on paper ketchup bottle” from Axios

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0:00.0	All right, let's do it.
0:02.0	All right.
0:04.0	Yeah, there we go.
0:07.0	Hello everyone, I am Kimberly Adams and welcome back to Make Me Smart.
0:12.0	Where we make today makes sense.
0:14.0	And I'm so we've been ashore. Thank you to everyone for joining us this Friday for economics on tap,
0:19.0	whether you are joining us on the YouTube live stream or listening to the podcast.
0:24.0	Yes, we are going to have some news and a round of half full, half empty coming up.
0:31.0	But first, Sabrina, what are you drinking?
0:35.0	I'm drinking this bright purple pre workout because I am going to go exercise after this and it has
0:45.0	beta haline, which makes your body like tingle like feels like things are crawling on you,
0:51.0	which I assume means that it's working and some creatine powder.
0:58.0	But that's what I'm, that's, this is my bed that I've made for myself and I'm in it.
1:07.0	Well, I am very glad that you are not.
1:10.0	What are you drinking?
1:12.0	Well, I'm sweating because I was just running around my house to catch my cat
1:18.0	because I finally have very excited my Jasper tumbler.
1:25.0	Oh, look at that.
1:28.0	Oh my god.
1:29.0	Is that a shirt cut?
1:30.0	Yeah, look.
1:31.0	They look alike.
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