The complicated and costly challenge of rebuilding Gaza
Make Me Smart
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4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, 70% of Gaza’s housing has been damaged, crucial infrastructure like schools and hospitals have been destroyed, and millions of Palestinians have been displaced. We’ll get into the logistical and economic challenge of reconstructing the Gaza Strip. And, we’ll explain why certain proposals coming out of the Harris campaign may be popular with voters but not so popular with economists. Plus, we’ll play a round of Half Full/Half Empty!
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Economically Dumb, Politically Smart” from The Atlantic
- “First-name basis: Harris is leaning into ‘Kamala'” from Politico
- “Gaza Reduced to 42 Million Tonnes of Rubble. What Will It Take to Rebuild?” from Bloomberg
- “Los Angeles wants a ‘no-car’ Olympics in 2028. Is it possible?” from The Guardian
- “Both Harris and Trump want to eliminate federal taxes on tips” from Marketplace
- “Indonesia prepares to change its capital city and challenges await” from Marketplace
- “On the train from LA to Portland, Amtrak’s ride-or-dies make the case for passenger rail” from Marketplace
- “Increasing use of AI in job resumes is a mixed blessing” from Marketplace
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| 0:00.0 | Ooh, you know how hot it is in here? The microphone is hot to the touch. |
| 0:04.0 | Nobody tells Scholar. |
| 0:05.1 | Oh, that's not good. |
| 0:07.1 | Nobody, nobody tells Scholar. |
| 0:09.5 | All right. |
| 0:10.5 | All right, let's do it. Hey everybody I'm Kyle Rousdale. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart. |
| 0:22.0 | Where we make today makes sense Friday 16 August I do believe. |
| 0:26.8 | And I am Kimberly Adams. Thank you for joining us. We are not on the live stream. We were having |
| 0:31.2 | a few technical difficulties, but we are recording this so hopefully |
| 0:34.0 | y'all can look at it later but this is economics on tap and we are so happy that everyone is listening |
| 0:40.5 | and or watching later. |
| 0:43.2 | What I would go through the YouTube comments to see what people are drinking but we can't do that. |
| 0:47.7 | What are you drinking? |
| 0:48.7 | What are you drinking? |
| 0:49.7 | So I am drinking something I made with help from my garden. I am drinking a lemon balm mojito. |
| 0:57.0 | So because the weather has been garbage and I've been traveling a lot this summer. I gave up on most of my garden. I'd say like 40 to 60 percent of what I planted |
| 1:11.6 | died but it's survival of the fittest up there, so there it is. |
| 1:14.9 | But what survived is lemon balm and a lot of it. |
| 1:18.0 | And so I found a recipe for a lemon balm mojito, so it's got obviously muddled lemon balm. I used lemon juice instead of lime juice because lemon balm. |
| 1:27.0 | And I made a lemon balm simple syrup where I just infused the lemon balm into sugar and then I |
| 1:34.7 | topped it with ginger ale and of course rum there's rum in it and it's quite refreshing |
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