The “don’t sleep on this news” edition

Make Me Smart

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4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

An ice shelf in Antarctica the size of New York City collapsed after a warm spell in that part of the globe, in case you needed a reminder that climate change is still happening. The trend toward globalization could be on the decline, though, as the world continues to watch the war in Ukraine and understand its greater significance for the global economy. And some shocking news out of Washington, D.C. We’ll talk about that and more for this special edition of Economics on Tap. It’s also the first-ever Make Me Smart Cherry Blossom Party. Trust us, you’re going to love it.

Here’s everything we talked about on the show today:

“Ice shelf collapses in previously stable East Antarctica” from AP
“How Russian sanctions could speed up the corrosion of globalization” from Marketplace
“The End of Globalization?” from Foreign Affairs
“BlackRock’s Larry Fink, who oversees $10 trillion, says Russia-Ukraine war is ending globalization” from CNBC
“Virginia Thomas urged White House chief to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 election, texts show” from The Washington Post

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Aw, somebody said that they proposed to their wife at the DC Cherry Blossom Festival in 2008.
0:07.0	Good place to do it.
0:09.0	Ah, sorry, that was not it.
0:12.0	That was just it.
0:13.0	You got me out of wears, Drew Jostain.
0:15.0	That was God's best, dude.
0:16.0	Well, no, it's...
0:17.0	All right, you started then, I will try and make one.
0:19.0	Hi, everyone.
0:21.0	I'm Kimberly Adams, and welcome to Make Me Smart, where we try to make today make sense,
0:27.0	hopefully without too many chisels.
0:28.0	Well, no, that was not it.
0:30.0	It was, I wasn't ready.
0:31.0	I was like setting up as we were talking about before we actually started recording.
0:34.0	Fridays were a little different because we got to get this and that done, and we got to get the YouTube up.
0:38.0	And I had to decorate the studio because I'm here because the power's out of my house.
0:42.0	I mean, all of that stuff.
0:43.0	So, huh.
0:45.0	Okay, but now we're here.
0:47.0	I'm going to relax.
0:48.0	It's Friday, economics on tap.
0:50.0	YouTube live stream, the Discord, the podcast, all of that good stuff.
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