The lowdown on joint fundraising committees

Make Me Smart

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Business, News

4.6 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Joint fundraising committees allow aligned political campaigns to raise more money faster. We’ll break down how these operations work and how they’re affecting the cost of elections. Then, guest host Sabri Ben-Achour explains why China’s electric vehicle industry may not be at “overcapacity,” as U.S. and European officials have argued. Plus, artists’ fears summed up in one controversial iPad Pro commercial.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “Joint fundraising: A campaign strategy to increase contributions” from Marketplace

- “U.S., Europe vexed by China’s ‘overcapacity’ of clean-energy goods” from Marketplace

- “OpenAI’s Brad Lightcap on new content tool, copyright claims and AI outlook” from CNBC

- “OpenAI says it’s building a tool to let content creators ‘opt out’ of AI training” from TechCrunch

- “Watch Apple Trash-Compact Human Culture” from The Atlantic

- “Apple’s new iPad ad has struck a nerve online. Here’s why” from AP News

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0:47.0	Hello everyone, I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we pulled
0:51.8	Sabree out of the dentist chair to make today make sense. make I didn't realize your dental work. I didn't realize we were on the air.
1:05.0	Oh my God.
1:06.0	Well, it is very good to be back.
1:08.0	Thanks everyone for joining us on this Thursday, May 9th.
1:11.0	Today we are going to listen back to some of the big stories of the week, so we've got some audio clips lined up for that.
1:18.0	Yes, our first clip is from an interview that I had with Ki-Hong, who is a lawyer at the firm Skadden Arps,
1:25.6	and I was reporting in the last couple weeks about how joint political fundraising to pool their fundraising efforts.
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