Make Me Smart

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Subscribers: 3503
Reviews: 16
Episodes: 250

AKF
 Apr 21, 2023
Informative & entertaining. But the previous female host had better chemistry with the guy. I wish she'd come back.

Jason
 Jan 27, 2023

Brianne
 Nov 14, 2020
They keep me sane while delivering education about current topics.


 Sep 24, 2020

Alex
 Sep 19, 2020
Love this show!

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Each weekday, Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal and Kimberly Adams make today make sense. Along with our supersmart listeners, we break down happenings in tech, the economy and culture. Every Tuesday we bring on a guest to dive deeper into one important topic. Because none of us is as smart as all of us.

Episode Date
Consumers are still living it up
Oct 03, 2023
Washington’s looming deadlines (note the plural)
Sep 30, 2023
The sliver of the federal budget Congress is fighting over
Sep 29, 2023
Musk and the military industrial complex
Sep 28, 2023
The real problem with passing the federal budget
Sep 27, 2023
Why big GOP money matters less than ever
Sep 26, 2023
Corruption is a bipartisan problem
Sep 23, 2023
What a shock to the economy could mean right now
Sep 22, 2023
AI and its role in elections
Sep 21, 2023
The clash of Bidenomics and MAGAnomics
Sep 19, 2023
What’s happening in Congress is not normal
Sep 19, 2023
The quest for a perfect smile
Sep 16, 2023
What happened to stakeholder capitalism?
Sep 15, 2023
Air conditioning and political dysfunction
Sep 14, 2023
What you need to know about ranked choice voting
Sep 12, 2023
Retail theft and capitalism today
Sep 12, 2023
Our 1,000th episode!
Sep 09, 2023
What happened to economic conservatism?
Sep 08, 2023
A new demographic reality is coming
Sep 07, 2023
How farmworkers were left behind
Sep 06, 2023
The jumbled world of college sports
Sep 02, 2023
Name that (economic) tune
Aug 31, 2023
Who should get overtime pay?
Aug 31, 2023
The plastic recycling hoax
Aug 29, 2023
The rise of homeownership sans insurance
Aug 29, 2023
Smash the patriarchy … and the pumpkins
Aug 26, 2023
A glitch in the consumer-driven recovery
Aug 25, 2023
Nvidia is riding the AI wave
Aug 23, 2023
Our driverless car future
Aug 22, 2023
The case to raise the inflation target
Aug 22, 2023
Turmoil in the television industry
Aug 19, 2023
The misunderstood Inflation Reduction Act
Aug 18, 2023
What Los Angeles can learn from Detroit about addressing homelessness
Aug 17, 2023
Artificial intelligence at work
Aug 16, 2023
A possible U-turn for driverless cars?
Aug 15, 2023
The clean energy economy has a NIMBY problem (rerun)
Aug 09, 2023
The (interim) Joint Chiefs of Staff?
Aug 05, 2023
Political dysfunction dents the U.S. credit rating
Aug 03, 2023
The doctor will see you now … for climate anxiety
Aug 03, 2023
The higher education business model is changing
Aug 01, 2023
DeSantis’ fiscal formula
Aug 01, 2023
The wild grain chase
Jul 29, 2023
So … whaddya wanna know about student loan repayments?
Jul 27, 2023
Barbie, T-Swift and the Fed?
Jul 26, 2023
A thrilling era for space discovery
Jul 26, 2023
Another government showdown?
Jul 25, 2023
Hot on the job
Jul 22, 2023
When will the streamers’ content river run dry?
Jul 21, 2023
It’s getting hot in here
Jul 20, 2023
The “American Whitelash” and economic fear
Jul 18, 2023
Hot labor summer is here
Jul 18, 2023
Our wildest “Economics on Tap” episode yet!
Jul 15, 2023
Hollywood on strike
Jul 14, 2023
Insurers retreat from the coasts
Jul 13, 2023
The dirty side of the fast-fashion business 
Jul 12, 2023
Behind the scenes: Kai’s trip to China with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen
Jul 10, 2023
The Twitter vs. Meta drama continues
Jul 08, 2023
A blueprint for AI regulation in hiring?
Jul 07, 2023
Has Twitter Meta its match?
Jul 06, 2023
The welfare-to-work industrial complex part 2
Jul 03, 2023
The economic ripple effects of the Supreme Court’s big decisions
Jul 01, 2023
“Bidenomics” and the tricky art of selling an idea
Jun 29, 2023
Recession? What recession?
Jun 29, 2023
The origins of the Fed’s 2% inflation target
Jun 28, 2023
The welfare-to-work industrial complex
Jun 27, 2023
The U.S. is graying. What does that mean for the economy?
Jun 24, 2023
A medical brain drain out of Texas
Jun 23, 2023
The Titanic sub and the migrant shipwreck
Jun 22, 2023
The economic status of Black Americans
Jun 21, 2023
What it really takes to live in New York City
Jun 17, 2023
The fringe medical group pushing anti-LGBTQ laws
Jun 16, 2023
Reddit’s pricing protest
Jun 14, 2023
Live from Seattle Part 2: We talk to Lindy West
Jun 14, 2023
EV batteries, industrial policy and you
Jun 13, 2023
Make Me Smart: Live in Seattle
Jun 10, 2023
What’s behind the climate culture wars? (rerun)
Jun 09, 2023
Financially Inclined: What you need to know before investing in the stock market
Jun 08, 2023
A Fedspeak dilemma: to “skip” or “pause” rates?
Jun 08, 2023
The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” is in the spotlight
Jun 06, 2023
The real story behind the red-blue hiring divide
Jun 06, 2023
YouTube’s 180 on misinformation
Jun 03, 2023
A tale of two debt dramas on Capitol Hill
Jun 02, 2023
Extraordinary measures for extraordinary times
May 31, 2023
Where’s the (lab-grown) beef?
May 31, 2023
Inflation is still here, folks
May 27, 2023
The U.S. Treasury is running out of cash
May 26, 2023
Investors are asking ChatGPT for stock market advice
May 25, 2023
The pandemic’s panic-neglect cycle isn’t over
May 24, 2023
The thing living in the back of Jay Powell’s mind
May 23, 2023
The back and forth over the debt ceiling
May 20, 2023
The law that rules the internet lives to see another day
May 19, 2023
Everything you wanted to know about the debt ceiling
May 18, 2023
How streaming upended the TV industry
May 16, 2023
Let’s talk about taxes
May 16, 2023
The law that could bring Florida’s economy to a halt
May 13, 2023
The banking situation may not be over yet
May 12, 2023
The economic ripples of conflict in Sudan
May 11, 2023
Why the U.S. has failed to end poverty
May 10, 2023
News from the SLOOS
May 09, 2023
Women are driving the labor market
May 06, 2023
What happened to checks and balances for the Supreme Court?
May 05, 2023
ChatGPT’s growing carbon footprint
May 04, 2023
The resurgence of child labor in America
May 02, 2023
The U.S. could default sooner than we thought
May 01, 2023
Remember credit-default swaps?
Apr 29, 2023
The limits of economic sanctions against Russia are showing
Apr 28, 2023
What will Fox really pay Dominion?
Apr 26, 2023
The economic consequences of anti-trans legislation
Apr 25, 2023
Is cable news breaking?
Apr 25, 2023
What is the proxy for Twitter? 
Apr 22, 2023
What car repos say about this economy
Apr 21, 2023
How accurate are economic forecasts?
Apr 20, 2023
The new in-space economy
Apr 18, 2023
Why the dollar’s dominance is hard to dislodge
Apr 18, 2023
The geopolitical center of gravity could be changing
Apr 15, 2023
What the Pentagon leak says about online anonymity
Apr 14, 2023
What to say when kids ask about the wage gap
Apr 12, 2023
The new wave of AI tools is changing us
Apr 11, 2023
Another week, another shooting
Apr 11, 2023
A warning about America’s industrial policy
Apr 08, 2023
The problem with Clarence Thomas’ luxe vacays
Apr 07, 2023
Who’s paying Trump’s legal bills?
Apr 05, 2023
The recent phenomenon of the AR-15’s popularity
Apr 05, 2023
A lucrative indictment
Apr 04, 2023
Make Me Smart: A very cherry blossomy edition
Apr 01, 2023
It all comes down to the (hush) money
Mar 31, 2023
Why didn’t Silicon Valley Bank knock on the Fed’s discount window? 
Mar 30, 2023
Demystifying the gender wage gap
Mar 28, 2023
Another school shooting in America
Mar 28, 2023
JPMorgan got fooled by the ‘nickel’ rocks that it bought
Mar 25, 2023
TikTok in the hot seat
Mar 24, 2023
Will recent bank failures affect debt ceiling talks?
Mar 22, 2023
The regulatory debacle behind SVB’s meltdown
Mar 21, 2023
Why SVB makes the Federal Reserve’s inflation fight awkward
Mar 21, 2023
The era of paid social media has begun
Mar 18, 2023
A rescue mission for First Republic Bank 
Mar 16, 2023
Your questions about SVB answered
Mar 16, 2023
Is time running out for TikTok?
Mar 14, 2023
Let the SVB blame game begin
Mar 14, 2023
Why SVB’s failure could be a very big deal
Mar 11, 2023
All the single ladies … in the U.S. economy
Mar 10, 2023
Why does iced coffee cost more than hot coffee?
Mar 09, 2023
A U.S. history lesson through food
Mar 08, 2023
The history behind the Fed’s Humphrey-Hawkins hearing
Mar 07, 2023
In 2023, America has a child labor problem
Mar 04, 2023
The job market shrugs off the Fed
Mar 02, 2023
What lobbying Congress can really buy
Mar 02, 2023
The clean energy economy has a NIMBY problem
Mar 01, 2023
Has corporate America stepped back from the culture wars?
Feb 28, 2023
What’s behind New York’s sky-high rents?
Feb 25, 2023
Teenagers want more sleep — and they need it
Feb 24, 2023
The new AI-powered Bing has entered the chat
Feb 23, 2023
Welcome to the next chapter of the pandemic
Feb 21, 2023
A climate change housing bubble is on the horizon
Feb 18, 2023
What’s age got to do with it?
Feb 16, 2023
The Super Bowl wins that don’t happen
Feb 15, 2023
America is in a situationship with industrial policy
Feb 15, 2023
Why we’re seeing more flying objects over U.S. airspace
Feb 14, 2023
The national debt is getting pricey
Feb 11, 2023
Say goodbye to Twitter’s free API
Feb 09, 2023
How to check if text was written by AI
Feb 08, 2023
Inside the world of sports betting
Feb 08, 2023
SOTU RIP?
Feb 07, 2023
Is it time to hit the reset button?
Feb 04, 2023
The Pope tweeted what now?
Feb 02, 2023
Could the debt ceiling fight have been averted?
Feb 02, 2023
Generative AI: What’s all the hype about?
Feb 01, 2023
Why this debt ceiling fight is already different
Jan 30, 2023
A thawing housing market?
Jan 28, 2023
California’s flood-drought paradox
Jan 27, 2023
What happens if the U.S. defaults on its debt?
Jan 25, 2023
What’s behind the climate culture wars?
Jan 25, 2023
Don’t bank on that trillion-dollar coin
Jan 24, 2023
ChatGPT is coming for Google search
Jan 21, 2023
FTX reboot?
Jan 20, 2023
Is hybrid work worth it for companies?
Jan 19, 2023
WT … Oh no!
Jan 18, 2023
Exxon Mobil’s decadeslong climate hoax
Jan 14, 2023
Keeping up with Congress
Jan 13, 2023
What’s the deal with ESG and the GOP?
Jan 12, 2023
The lasting implications of Jan. 6
Jan 11, 2023
Our very first episode of the year!
Jan 10, 2023
This is not your grandpa’s union (rerun)
Jan 04, 2023
Let’s talk about Ukraine (rerun)
Dec 28, 2022
The moral hazard of solar geoengineering (rerun)
Dec 21, 2022
How sci-fi can make us smart (rerun)
Dec 14, 2022
Our holiday party episode
Dec 10, 2022
The economic and human cost of the opioid epidemic
Dec 09, 2022
More jobs are always a good thing, right?
Dec 08, 2022
Climate change is disrupting the insurance industry
Dec 07, 2022
AI isn’t all fun and games
Dec 06, 2022
Why women are gaining more jobs than men
Dec 03, 2022
Dude, where’s my EV charging station?
Dec 01, 2022
Why was so much money sitting in FTX?
Dec 01, 2022
Tech layoffs: The Great Correction?
Nov 30, 2022
China is at a COVID-19 crossroads
Nov 29, 2022
Is globalization a myth?
Nov 23, 2022
The FTX meltdown is a cautionary tale
Nov 22, 2022
The big quit: teachers’ edition
Nov 19, 2022
FTX-bomb
Nov 18, 2022
Should we care about political polls?
Nov 17, 2022
Unpacking Mastodon
Nov 16, 2022
Are U.S.-China relations thawing?
Nov 15, 2022
It’s time to talk about climate reparations
Nov 12, 2022
Crypto world is reeling
Nov 11, 2022
What’s the deal with Twitter Blue?
Nov 10, 2022
The rise of outside money in local school board elections
Nov 09, 2022
Elon Musk’s Twitter troubles
Nov 08, 2022
Oil industry: Help wanted
Nov 05, 2022
Brands are breaking up with Twitter
Nov 04, 2022
With less than a week until Election Day, do political donations still matter?
Nov 02, 2022
We’re (still) not in a recession. Right?
Nov 01, 2022
Scared that affirmative action might go away?
Nov 01, 2022
Gambling on politics?
Oct 29, 2022
The climate crisis vs. the energy crisis
Oct 28, 2022
Political ads can lie to you
Oct 26, 2022
Is Miami’s housing market ignoring the climate crisis?
Oct 25, 2022
Consequences for Kanye West
Oct 25, 2022
Are we SURE about these Elon Musk deals?
Oct 22, 2022
Corporate profits, we see you
Oct 21, 2022
Can spending billions on political ads actually win elections?
Oct 20, 2022
Health care is going hybrid
Oct 18, 2022
The surprising factors that affect who gets to live where
Oct 17, 2022
This isn’t your run of the mill grocery store merger
Oct 15, 2022
We’re still in a bear market, folks
Oct 14, 2022
Hurricane season, then and now
Oct 13, 2022
From “Marketplace Tech”: How credit scores shape our financial reality
Oct 11, 2022
What have you been been wrong about?
Oct 10, 2022
There’s a new backlog of ships hitting the U.S.
Oct 08, 2022
How oil and gas companies fuel the anti-abortion movement
Oct 07, 2022
Student loan forgiveness should boost your credit score — eventually
Oct 06, 2022
The social, political and economic forces behind Iran’s protests
Oct 05, 2022
To rebuild or not to rebuild?
Oct 03, 2022
What Trevor Noah’s departure says about late-night show biz
Oct 01, 2022
What flood insurance?
Sep 29, 2022
Why is the U.K. cutting taxes and raising interest rates at the same time?
Sep 29, 2022
The racist backlash over Black characters is a labor story
Sep 27, 2022
The home care worker shortage just got worse
Sep 27, 2022
The economy isn’t cute
Sep 24, 2022
Making it easier to get life-saving drugs
Sep 22, 2022
How does the Fed’s quantitative (un)easing plan work?
Sep 22, 2022
China’s economy is going through a phase
Sep 20, 2022
Eyes on Puerto Rico
Sep 19, 2022
Is this our ’80s tribute show?
Sep 17, 2022
Republican governors take a page from history
Sep 16, 2022
Questions about inflation, questions about the queen
Sep 14, 2022
These aren’t your grandpa’s high interest rates
Sep 14, 2022
COVID is still here. And it’s costing the economy.
Sep 12, 2022
Thank you, Black Twitter
Sep 09, 2022
Thoughts on the queen, and more
Sep 09, 2022