The political attacks on economic data
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The jobs report released today blew past economists’ forecasts, estimating that employers added about 250,000 jobs to the U.S. economy in September. Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is falsely claiming the jobs report is “fake.” We’ll get into how big economic data is being politicized. And, what happens when October surprises aren’t so surprising anymore? Plus, we’ll weigh in on “white labeling” and flying taxis during a round of Half Full / Half Empty!
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “October surprises are piling up, but a toss-up race seems impervious to shocks” from CNN Politics
- “Jack Smith’s latest filing in the Trump election case is no ‘Comey letter'” from MSNBC
- “‘Trump Bible’ one of few that meet Walters’ criteria for Oklahoma classrooms” from The Oklahoman
- Tweet from Sen. Marco Rubio about today’s jobs report
- “Not hearing back on job applications? Some career consultants suggest a bold new tactic.” from Business Insider
- “Denver is funding sidewalk maintenance with a property owner tax” from Marketplace
- “Why do retailers white label certain products?” from Marketplace
- “Costco adds platinum bars to its precious metals lineup” from CNBC
- “Toyota puts another $500 million in an air taxi startup” from The Verge
Don’t let us fall short. We need your help to reach our Fall Fundraiser goal today!: https://support.marketplace.org/smart-sn
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive |
| 0:03.4 | It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, |
| 0:08.3 | I was flying for the Navy. |
| 0:09.7 | Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. |
| 0:14.4 | It was the cold war, and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers. |
| 0:18.6 | Today, though, there's another threat out there, climate change. |
| 0:22.5 | This could be the warmest year on record. |
| 0:24.6 | Climate change is here. |
| 0:25.7 | Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth. |
| 0:29.5 | And while the threat seems new, |
| 0:31.6 | the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s. |
| 0:35.9 | I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change. |
| 0:44.7 | This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis |
| 0:47.5 | to see how the military is preparing for the threat. |
| 0:51.0 | Listen to how we survive, |
| 0:52.3 | wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:54.0 | Son of a gun, it works. |
| 0:59.0 | Look at that. |
| 1:00.0 | It does. |
| 1:01.0 | Hello everyone, I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes sense. |
| 1:06.0 | It's Friday, October the 4th. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm Kyle Rizal. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Marketplace, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Marketplace and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.