Make Me Smart: 2024 Olympics edition
Listen now
Description
On today’s edition of Economics on Tap, we’ll get into some news while toasting the start of the 2024 Paris Olympics. First, Kimberly teaches us how to make an Olympic torch cocktail (complete with a real flame)! And, we’ll play a Paris Games-themed round of This or That. But first, a discussion of the history of women’s sportswear at the Olympic Games and Boeing’s Starliner crew (still) stuck in space. Here’s everything we talked about today: “50 days after launch to ISS, Boeing Starliner astronauts still have no landing date” from Space “Olympic athletes are approaching the limits of human performance” from The Washington Post “From Corsets to Singlets, the Olympics Have Driven the Evolution of Women’s Sportswear” from Smithsonian magazine “How Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky does what no one else does. Every day.” from The Washington Post “The Double Kick” from 99% Invisible “Today, Explained podcast” from Vox Keep sending us your Olympic-themed cocktail ideas. Email [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.
More Episodes
The IRS and U.S. Treasury Department announced today the recovery of $1.3 billion from high-income tax dodgers since last fall, citing funding from President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act as the catalyst for increased collection enforcement efforts. And we hear about the a new investigation...
Published 09/07/24
Published 09/07/24
The Harris campaign is proposing a bump in the capital gains tax that’s well below the rate President Biden had put forward. We’ll get into why remixing Biden’s tax plan scored her some points with corporate supporters. And, we’ll explain the fight between Disney and DirecTV that’s causing...
Published 09/05/24