Show overview
Make Me Smart has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 269 episodes. That works out to roughly 90 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a near-daily cadence.
Episodes typically run ten to twenty minutes — most land between 15 min and 25 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Business show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 60 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 206 episodes published. Published by Marketplace.
From the publisher
Each weekday, Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams makes today make sense along with her Marketplace colleagues, breaking down happenings in tech, the economy, and culture. Because none of us is as smart as all of us.
Latest Episodes
View all 269 episodesFrom "How We Survive": How to Dim the Sun
The TikTok-ification of music marketing
The highs and lows of the global art market
Kimberly's final cheers on "Economics on Tap"
How the new WNBA CBA transforms player pay
The new fight for states' rights under Trump
From "This Is Uncomfortable": Wait...where did my retirement money go?
It's tough out there for new college grads
How second chance employment is lowering recidivism in the U.S.
The economic outlook of the great outdoors
Mass deportations don’t lead to more jobs for Americans. Why does the myth persist?
Vietnam's economy on the rise
Seattle's tech industry blues
Anthropic’s head of economics answers our questions about AI and the job market
Here’s how the ultrarich avoid paying taxes
"Marketplace" Live
Rejecting climate doomerism with solarpunk
Who can stop insider trading on prediction markets?
ICE and the “wide, deep, and ever-growing” surveillance state
Ep 1549Make Me Smart: Lunar Edition
This week’s launch of Artemis II marked the first crewed mission to the moon in over 50 years. This time around, the spaceflight industry looks pretty different, with private companies playing a more dominant role. On today’s show, Kimberly gets into the future of NASA and the commercial space sector with Ars Technica’s senior space editor Eric Berger. Plus, why are we going back to the moon, anyway? Here’s everything we talked about today:"Artemis II is unlikely to be the cultural touchstone Apollo 8 was, and that's OK" from Ars Technica "Isaacman aims to reinvigorate NASA’s image, starting with the moon" from Politico "Trump FY2027 NASA Budget Supports Moon Missions, But Cuts Everything Else" from SpacePolicyOnline.com "Big Banks Seeking a Piece of SpaceX’s I.P.O. Must Subscribe to Elon Musk’s Grok" from The New York Times"SpaceX quietly files for big bang IPO" from SpaceNews "Artemis II: What's on the Menu?" from NASA"Astronaut Reid Wiseman was wrong about how rockets get to space" from MarketplaceWe love hearing from you. Leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART or email [email protected].