Kimberly's final cheers on "Economics on Tap"

About this episode

Kimberly prepares for her new role as host while discussing summer reading and future topics with David Brancaccio.

As Kimberly gets ready to step into her new role as the host of “Marketplace Morning Report,” her predecessor David Brancaccio joins her to talk about his years on the morning shift and what he’s looking forward to on his new beat covering future effects for Marketplace. Plus, the two swap summer reading recommendations and play a round of Half Full/Half Empty! Here’s everything we talked about today: "Liar's Poker" by Michael Lewis "Number Go Up" by Zeke Faux "Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson "The Sum of Us" by Heather McGhee "Public pools used to be everywhere in America. Then racism shut them down." From Marketplace "Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI" by Ryan Rolansky and Aneesh Raman "Want to make new friends? There's an app for that" from Marketplace "Why online courses sold by influencers have become so popular" from Marketplace "The Roomba Guy’s Second Act: A Robot You’ll Want to Snuggle" from The Wall Street Journal "The Spirit Airlines Comeback Story No One Saw Coming" from Inc. “Make Me Smart” is a public media program. Support “Make Me Smart” with your donation today and keep economic news available to everyone. Donate now: https://bit.ly/mkp_mms_pod

People in this episode

Host: Kimberly

Guest: David Brancaccio

Topics covered

• transition
• summer reading
• future of work
• economic news
• AI
• friendship apps

Keywords

• Kimberly
• David Brancaccio
• summer reading
• Marketplace
• AI
• friendship apps
• economic news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Marketplace, The Wall Street Journal, Inc.

Books & works: Liar's Poker, Number Go Up, Pattern Recognition, The Sum of Us, Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI, Want to make new friends? There's an app for that, Why online courses sold by influencers have become so popular, The Roomba Guy’s Second Act: A Robot You’ll Want to Snuggle, The Spirit Airlines Comeback Story No One Saw Coming

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