The (interim) Joint Chiefs of Staff?

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🗓️ 5 August 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

First the U.S. Marines and now the Army. For the first time in American history, two members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff lack the blessing of the Senate, as Sen. Tommy Tuberville, an Alabama Republican, holds up hundreds of military promotions to protest the Pentagon’s new abortion policy. We’ll explain the implications of having interims filling these top military posts. And good news for the lungs of the planet: Deforestation is on a downward trend in the Amazon rainforest. Plus, we’ll play a game of Half Full / Half Empty with predictions about the “vibecession.”

Here’s everything we talked about:

- “Amazon deforestation at six-year-low in Brazil after plunging 66% in July” from CNN

- “Army chief retires as Tuberville hold snarls the Pentagon’s top ranks” from Politico

- Joint Chiefs of Staff vacancies from Twitter

- “Why ‘grandternity’ leave might become the newest form of parental leave” from Marketplace

- “The Federal Reserve could help instant payments catch on” from Marketplace

- “Cybersecurity labels are coming. Will they be effective?” from Marketplace

- “Are we finally exiting the ‘vibeces sion’?” from Marketplace

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0:18.8	Hey, everybody I'm Kyle Ruzdo welcome back to make me smart where we make today make sense
0:22.6	It is Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday the fourth day of August
0:28.4	It is indeed and I am Kimberly Adams. Thank you for joining us everyone for economics on tap our weekly happy hour
0:34.6	The YouTube live stream is up and running. We've got news again and drinks
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0:56.2	All right, so now we will do we will do drinks. We will do the news. We will do all that stuff
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1:20.8	It's called a dragon warmer and it's a fruit cocktail and it's supposed to be made
1:26.2	Warm and I did make it warm, but it's also summer and so I I've got it in a shaker with ice that like instantly melted
1:36.2	But it's got apple juice dark rum the apple juice. I like boiled cinnamon sticks and lemon slices in it
1:43.5	And then it's got like a lemon as a garnish
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