The UK’s got a pound problem
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 3 September 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
There’s another problem to add to the list of issues piling up in the UK right now: The pound sterling took a dive. We’ll discuss the economic situation there and how it compares to what’s happening on this side of the pond. Plus, could Alaska’s voting system help our polarized politics? Then, we play a round of Half Full/Half Empty.
Here is everything we talked about:
- Pound Latest: Sterling Collapse to $1.15 Shows Level of Market Despair from Bloomberg
- “With Peltola’s Defeat of Palin, Alaska’s Ranked-Choice Voting Has a Moment” from The New York Times
- “Among the goals of Artemis I: launching the lunar economy” from “Marketplace Tech”
- “Now, software can replicate your boss’s voice and tell you what to do” from “Marketplace Tech”
- “Californians Told Not to Charge Electric Cars Days After Gas Car Sales Ban” from Newsweek
- “Perseverance can make as much oxygen on Mars as a small tree” from CNN
- “Why is modern interior design so gray?” from Marketplace
- “Barking 9 to 5! Dolly Parton launches ‘Doggy Parton,’ a pet apparel collection” from NPR
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| 0:00.0 | That's that's why we have producers |
| 0:02.8 | Indeed just to save us from ourselves |
| 0:06.2 | Yeah, oh, oh, oh you weren't getting just before we go live. No, I was it we were |
| 0:12.2 | I |
| 0:14.8 | Think you would have learned by now |
| 0:19.3 | Everybody I'm Kai Rizzo. Welcome back to make me smart where we make today make sense cursing sometimes along the way just you know |
| 0:25.9 | Just you know think about the range of the words and what's allowed and what's not so we don't get a little |
| 0:34.2 | Language warnings on our podcast |
| 0:36.2 | Well, yeah, I'm sorry to interrupt unbeknownst to me Bridget's been bleeping us the whole time |
| 0:43.6 | What yes, I know |
| 0:45.6 | I think I would listen to my own podcast, but I really don't because that's all the |
| 0:49.4 | Precorded their own voice |
| 0:51.4 | Exactly, but yeah Bridget the other day when I said oh we're gonna get the e for this she said oh that's okay |
| 0:57.0 | I beat you guys all of time. I'm like dude man what |
| 1:00.8 | Well, I suppose that should open all doors for things that we can say |
| 1:07.8 | Well, thank you for everyone who is joining us live on the YouTube live stream |
| 1:11.9 | where I don't think they can believe us in real time and |
| 1:14.3 | Those who are listening later to the podcast and they can this is economics on tap where we do the newsfigs |
| 1:21.8 | We play some half full health half empty we drink and what are you drinking? It looks like you're drinking water |
| 1:27.7 | I'm drinking water again because I have to drive later |
| 1:31.6 | By which I mean like at four o'clock my time so you know prudence being the better part of |
| 1:37.0 | Driving way of had a beer |
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