From restaurants to bars and gyms, more and more businesses are requiring customers to be vaccinated. Our listener Leila wants to know: how will businesses check your status? Or are we on an honor system? On today’s episode, we’ll dig into some of the options and do a little show and tell. Plus, we’ll answer one of the nerdiest questions we’ve received about taxes, along with others about no-needle vaccines and the history the Federal Reserve’s annual meeting in Jackson Hole. 

Here’s everything we talked about today: 

• “Scientists debate potential benefits of intranasal covid-19 vaccines”  from PBS Newshour 

• Our episode on vaccine mandates 

• “San Francisco’s new rule: proof of vaccine or no dining” from the Associated Press

• “Lost your covid-19 vaccine card? Don’t worry, you can get a new one.” from USA Today

• “How the remote Western resort of Jackson Hole became a go-to gathering for central bankers” from Business Insider 

• And in case you want to nerd out on how sales and excise taxes work, from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy

Read the transcript here.

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