Segments From This Episode

• Trump moves market, in part, by calling America's central banker names

  by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  President Donald Trump has made no secret of his displeasure with Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Now, The Wall Street Jourrnal reports that Trump could announce a successor to Powell in the coming months.

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• Why health care spending is an ever-growing part of GDP

  by Elizabeth Trovall

  

  National spending on health care will surpass 20% of GDP by 2033, up from 17.6% in 2023, according to new government estimates.

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• How a growing "shadow fleet" poses risks to the economy — and the environment

  by Daniel Ackerman

  

  Shadow fleets, groups of tanker ships used by sanctioned nations like Iran and Russia to move oil, comprise an estimated 17% of all international tankers, according to an Allianz report.

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