Segments From This Episode

• It's FOMC meeting week. Here's what the Federal Reserve cares about

  by Nova Safo

  

  Inflation has been stubbornly hanging around 2.8% for months. That’s above the Federal Reserve's 2% target. Meanwhile, key areas of the labor market are showing signs of weakness.

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• Why not rain check?

  by Kai Ryssdal and Sofia Terenzio

  Kathryn Anne Edwards, an economist and co-host of "Optimist Economy," explains why the Federal Reserve won’t just cancel their next interest rate setting meeting.

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• Long-awaited farm relief package announced

  by Elizabeth Trovall

  

  The aid includes billions in payments to farmers hurt by the trade war.

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• Where lost health insurance subsidies will hurt most

  by Blake Farmer

  

  Republican-led states that declined to expand Medicaid brace for uninsured spike as marketplace subsidies expire.

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• The Numbers

  by Kai Ryssdal

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• Home builders thought 2025 would be a good year. Buyers had other ideas

  by Daniel Ackerman

  

  Elevated interest rates, tariffs, and labor shortages due to President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown have left many would-be buyers on the sidelines.

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• Status symbols are getting cheaper (and smaller and brighter)

  by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry

  

  Labubu dolls and Stanley cups are replacing luxury cars and designer clothes as status symbols, and that says something about the attention economy.

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