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It's @mollywood's last day at Marketplace 🥲, and we wanted to highlight some of our favorite Molly moments and episodes! Oh, where do we begin?
To kick things off, we're taking a trip down memory lane...
#MakeMeSmart with @kairyssdal and @mollywood launched January 24th, 2017, but did you know there were three mini episodes before?
Here's the very first: mktplc.org/3obTusj
#MakeMeSmart with @kairyssdal and @mollywood launched January 24th, 2017, but did you know there were three mini episodes before?
Here's the very first: mktplc.org/3obTusj
Honestly ... how can we not talk about #BananaPants when it comes to @mollywood?! She started a trend, and we're not even sorry. 🍌🍌🍌
Also in the big #MakeMeSmart this week, you know what I've gotten obsessed with? The bar exam. So turns out, multiple states are insisting on holding bar exams *in person* this month, putting students at risk or ensuring only young healthy probably white people show up. 1/
And that's draconian and dangerous and exclusionary in a pandemic, but it turns out the bar exam *always has been* draconian and exclusionary. 2/ theappeal.org/2020-bar-exam-…
Three states are letting graduates enter the bar without taking the exam, something called "diploma privilege," based on the crazy idea that if you graduated from law school, you uh, are a lawyer, no elitist and death-defying test required. 3/ washingtonpost.com/education/2020…
As it happens, it was a good time to talk Modern Monetary Policy on #MakeMeSmart, given the Fed's comments today. marketplace.org/shows/make-me-… 1/
The upshot, as I think I understand it: countries can't go broke as long as they can create their own money. So MMT suggests, in a nutshell, create and invest *as much as you need* in activity that produces an economic benefit. Covid relief, infrastructure, climate ... 2/
@StephanieKelton says why even accept the framing of "deficit," if you create a trillion dollars that leads to $1.2 trillion in economic activity? Anyway it's super interesting and super relevant to this exact moment, when the Fed is basically telling Congress ... 3/
It's the #MakeMeSmart Tuesday deep dive: looking at what plummeting state and local budgets could lead to (sorry K-12 and public health!), mourning the loss of the Before Times and ... well. More smiles tomorrow, maybe. marketplace.org/shows/make-me-…
For those who asked, here's the "Cassandra" article I was talking about: nytimes.com/2020/05/02/opi…
And here's the video! I put on a necklace. So there's that.
Well, whaddya know. nytimes.com/2019/08/19/bus…
I want to expand a tiny bit on why I find this interesting. It's because inequality, which we've been digging into on #MakeMeSmart recently, is, in the long term, bad for business. People have to be able to buy your products if growth, ie capitalism, is going to continue. 1/
If fewer and fewer people are able to participate in the economy, either through income inequality, racial and gender discrimination, stagnant wages, and heck, even extreme weather due to climate change, businesses face risk. 2/
Today on #MarketplaceTech, we talked about the difference in the way platforms and law enforcement treat international terrorism versus domestic terrorism, and how that can let radicalization and hate speech get worse in online forums: marketplace.org/shows/marketpl…
And it seems like there could be use for a nuanced and balanced conversation about Section 230, the law that can shield platforms for being liable for things that their users post. Here's #MakeMeSmart on the topic from earlier in the summer. marketplace.org/shows/make-me-…
One thing I thought was super interesting about this conversation is that the legal precedent around Section 230 allows platforms to not get sued for things their users post *even if they moderate that content.* So they actually AREN'T required to be totally hands-off.
