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• Wage growth continues to outpace inflation

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  Price growth has moderated. Wage growth hasn’t, for the most part.

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• Why the U.S. once relied on tariffs to raise revenue — and what it would mean to go back

  by Stephanie Hughes

  

  President-elect Donald Trump has suggested he would cut or even eliminate income taxes, ramping up the role tariffs play instead.

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• Trump's new advisory group

  by Nova Safo

  President-elect Donald Trump says Tesla, SpaceX and X chief Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, a pharmaceutical entrepreneur who ran as a Republican for president, will lead an effort to restructure the federal government, revamp regulations and try to save money. It’s not clear if the new outfit will be part of the administration — and require congressional approval — or be more like an outside think tank.

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