The false economic narratives continue
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🗓️ 18 June 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
With the elections for president, the Senate and the House just 4½ months away, misinformation is on the rise. We’ll get into the kind of false narratives to look for on the campaign trail. Plus, how loopholes in medical billing underscore the importance of change at the state and local levels. And, the story of a remote-controlled robot that rescues swimmers in distress.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- Post about the Republican National Committee from Jay Nordlinger on X
- “Even Doctors Like Me Are Falling Into This Medical Bill Trap” from The New York Times
- “Watch a robot race over Lake Michigan waves to help a swimmer” from MLive
- “Which sentence do you think is grammatically correct?” from YouGov
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| 0:00.0 | There you're all right Charleston. Let's hit that button shall we? My goodness. |
| 0:03.2 | My goodness. |
| 0:09.2 | Hello everyone, I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes it. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Kyle Rosal. |
| 0:14.4 | Thanks for joining us on this Monday. |
| 0:15.7 | It is the 17th of June 2024. |
| 0:19.5 | And it is quite the Monday. |
| 0:20.8 | Today we are going to do some news, get to some smiles. Let's start with the news. the marketplace which would be titled the bonkers economic things that the |
| 0:34.6 | Trump campaign is saying full stop I cannot handle it anymore I think I talked |
| 0:40.9 | the other day about the former president's proposal to replace the income tax with tariffs and I pointed out how the math doesn't work |
| 0:47.7 | Here is one this is Jane Nordlinger. He's a Republican first of all he's at National Review a Republican, first of all. He's at National Review, a Republican publication. |
| 0:55.0 | So he's a conservative dude, and he is quoting a spokesman for the Republican National Committee as saying this, |
| 1:01.0 | quote, the notion that tariffs are attacks on US consumers is a lie |
| 1:04.6 | pushed by outsourcers and the Chinese Communist Party end quote I as I said the |
| 1:10.9 | other day I don't know what to do with this because it's just it's so on the face of it absurd and offered in such bad faith and and |
| 1:20.0 | A economic that is to say without any economic basis. I just don't get it I don't |
| 1:26.1 | Okay, that's it what I loved about that tweet that you shared or whatever we're calling them now |
| 1:32.1 | Yeah, um is that someone then links to in the |
| 1:35.5 | responses to the Heritage Foundation as in the Project 2025 |
| 1:40.5 | for Crichonators in which the headline says heritage president tariffs are a tax increase |
| 1:48.0 | on American workers and their families it's you know it would be funny if it wasn't so serious, right? |
| 1:54.5 | Because there are millions, millions of people who will see that |
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