{"podcast":{"title":"Make Me Smart","slug":"make-me-smart-678917","podcast_index_feed_id":678917,"rss_url":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/make-me-smart","website_url":"https://www.marketplace.org/shows/make-me-smart","image_url":"https://img.apmcdn.org/cb9f0002f165ccf435941a35d828395459c9b053/uncropped/578f91-20250523-make-me-smart-updated-art-3000.png","author":"Marketplace","episode_count":250,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/make-me-smart-678917"},"episode":{"title":"Here’s how the ultrarich avoid paying taxes","slug":"here-s-how-the-ultrarich-avoid-paying-taxes","published_at":"2026-04-14T20:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/make-me-smart-678917/here-s-how-the-ultrarich-avoid-paying-taxes","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/make-me-smart-678917","url":"https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2026/04/14/heres-how-the-ultrarich-avoid-paying-taxes","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/5/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/play.publicradio.org/podcast/o/marketplace/make_me_smart/2026/04/14/mms_20260414_MMS_128.mp3?awCollectionId=mkp-MMsmrt&awEpisodeId=01KP6QY934CVVSW2782CA7K9D0","summary":"In her book “The Second Estate,” Boston College Law School professor Ray Madoff argues that the tax code in the United States lets billionaires keep their wealth outside of the tax system, leaving the heaviest burden to lower- and middle-income, working Americans. On today’s show, Madoff joins Kimberly to explain the “tax avoidance playbook” and why Congress has let certain loopholes go unclosed for decades. Plus, why a wealth tax may not be the simple solution you think it is.","meta_description":"In her book “The Second Estate,” Boston College Law School professor Ray Madoff argues that the tax code in the United States lets billionaires keep their…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1054,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/make-me-smart-678917/episodes/here-s-how-the-ultrarich-avoid-paying-taxes/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/make-me-smart-678917/here-s-how-the-ultrarich-avoid-paying-taxes.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}