What is an economy of caution?
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re talking about one of Kai’s favorite topics: bonds! The yield on the 10-year Treasury note (the benchmark for mortgages and car loans) is down sharply, which is great for consumers. But it’s happening for not necessarily great reasons. We’ll explain. Plus, why Kimberly is keeping a close eye on one of her go-to government websites. And, she’ll share tales from her trip to Venice’s famed carnival.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Key Interest Rate Falls as Worries About the Economy Rise” from The New York Times
- “RFK Jr. moves to eliminate public comment on HHS decisions” by STAT
- “RFK Jr. move to kill public comment roils providers” from Axios
- “AP PHOTOS: Venice Carnival opens with biodegradable streamers and an ode to Casanova” by AP News
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| 0:00.0 | All right, whenever you're ready. |
| 0:03.3 | And voila. |
| 0:07.8 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:08.9 | I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:09.9 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:13.0 | Kimberly, Kimberly, Kimberly, Kimberly. |
| 0:15.9 | Monday, the 3rd of March, Kimberly's back. |
| 0:18.9 | I'm Kai. |
| 0:20.0 | You all know that. |
| 0:21.4 | Monday, News and Smiles Kind today. We will start with the back. I'm Kai. You all know that. Monday, news and smiles kind of day. |
| 0:23.5 | We will start with the news. |
| 0:24.5 | Ms. Adams, what do you got? |
| 0:26.5 | I mean, did anything happen while I was gone? |
| 0:28.3 | No, no. I don't know. |
| 0:30.1 | Please. |
| 0:31.2 | Didn't even have to take the news off your phone. |
| 0:32.9 | You get to just, you know, whatever. |
| 0:35.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.1 | It was impossible to avoid the news while I was away, even in one case from the other side of the world. |
| 0:43.9 | But nevertheless, today I want to talk about one of the things that I often talk about, which is regulations. |
| 0:50.6 | And as people who are regular listeners to this podcast will know, I often encourage people to exercise their civic engagement opportunities and file public comments on pending federal regulations. |
| 1:04.9 | Because in addition to writing your members of Congress, in addition to petitioning the government for, you know, redress of grievances, |
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