The economy isn’t cute

Make Me Smart

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4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Central banks all over the world are on a interest-raising spree. We’ll explain why that raises the risk of a recession. Buckle up, folks! Plus, how a volcano eruption led to the discovery of a new island in the Pacific Ocean. And Kimberly Adams gives us a lesson in pawpaw fruit harvesting!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

“A New Baby Island Has Just Been Born In The Pacific Ocean” from IFL Science
“New 6-Acre Island in Pacific Ocean Has Been Seen From Space” from Newsweek
Video: Disney Music “Lava” (Official Lyric Video from “Lava”)
Tweet from economist @Neil_Irwin
“Move Over, Açai—It’s the Pawpaw’s Time” from The New Yorker

Got a question for a our hosts? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a voice message at 508-U-B-SMART.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're getting near 40s, that what you're doing.
0:03.2	Kimberly Adams, I could put you.
0:06.2	Oh, snap.
0:07.2	Oh my goodness.
0:08.8	Okay, well, welcome everyone to Make Me Smart.
0:18.6	I'm Kimberly Adams and we attempt to make today make sense over here.
0:24.1	The Ever Youthful Kimberly Adams.
0:25.7	I'm Kyle Rizdal.
0:26.7	Thanks to everybody for joining us on the YouTube livestream.
0:28.8	We got discard going.
0:30.7	We got if you're on the pod later on, we're going to do some economics on tap.
0:34.9	A little something different today.
0:36.1	We're going to do news.
0:37.3	We'll do a little, what are you drinking?
0:39.4	We'll do a little half full half empty.
0:42.6	And the thing that we're going to try is during half full half empty, you're going to ask
0:46.0	for a little audience participation for those of you on the livestream.
0:48.9	So look, if you're listening to this not on Friday afternoon, sadly ignore that part,
0:54.1	I suppose.
0:55.1	But if you're on the livestream, we're going to have a thing for you.
0:58.0	All right, okay, good.
0:59.6	Anyway, what are you drinking?
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