Segments From This Episode

• Some traders more convinced of a second Trump term

  by Nova Safo and David Brancaccio

  The rule of thumb in the investing world is that market players don’t like uncertainty. And the question this morning is whether there is more or less of it with regards to the next president of the United States, after a rough night for President Joe Biden on stage next to former President Donald Trump. We’ll unpack.

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• Lawmakers managed to fix Social Security in the 1980s. But those fixes won’t work a second time.

  by Kimberly Adams

  

  The Social Security program is on track to burn through its savings account by 2035 unless Congress changes the law before then. Social Security faced a similar funding crisis in the early 1980s.

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