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Each weekday, Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal and Kimberly Adams make today make sense. Along with our sup

Episodes

Total: 501

From our sponsor: Imagine if you could ask someone anything you wanted about their finances. On “Wha

Hey Smarties! Make Me Smart is taking a short break while Kimberly and Reema cook up something good

It’s Kai’s last day as a regular co-host of “Make Me Smart” and he’s got a solid rant (and two bleep

The Senate unexpectedly passed the No Tax on Tips Act, one of President Trump’s many campaign promis

Watch the dollar!

2025/5/20

Things aren’t looking so good for the U.S. dollar. Though it’s spent decades as the world’s reigning

Walmart had said it would raise prices in response to tariffs. Then, it got a call from the White Ho

Kai shares some news

2025/5/16

On today’s show, Kai makes a special annoucement! But first, Moody’s knocked the United States’ gove

In today’s show, Kimber-Kai are answering your questions about all the wild things going on in the U

Congress' AI power grab

2025/5/14

On today’s show, Kimberly continues to make us smart about the GOP’s massive tax bill. This time, we

Today we’re ditching the drama on Earth and talking about K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away.

House Republicans’ newly released tax plan includes trillions in tax breaks. But those tax cuts will

As the Trump administration heads into a weekend of trade talks with Chinese officials, the Presiden

Following Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs, the United States has now struck a trade deal

On today’s episode: Marketplace’s Reema Khrais joins Kimberly to discuss two stories from opposite e

So far, President Trump’s “drill, baby, drill,” agenda has proven to be a sharp turn from Biden-era

The Trump administration is hoping tariffs will spur companies to bring manufacturing back to the Un

On today’s episode, Kimberly joins "Economics on Tap" from the Toronto airport. We’ll unpa

Buy less, pay more?

2025/5/1

This week, President Trump acknowledged his tariffs were resulting in costlier items in the U.S., bu

The Commerce Department reported the U.S. economy contracted by 0.3% in the first quarter of this ye

After declaring victory in yesterday’s Canadian election, Prime Minister Mark Carney said the “old r