Dec 29, 2020

COVID-19 is just the start of Biden’s upcoming economic challenges

Diane Swonk talks unemployment benefits. We look into regulation and shell companies. Then, Brexit's effect on U.K. financial services.

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Biden faces economic obstacles beyond the pandemic's burdens

by David Brancaccio , Erika Soderstrom and Daniel Shin

Dec 29, 2020

The list includes dwindling trust funds for Social Security and Medicare and potential bubbles in the housing and stock markets.

Biden will confront "headwinds unlike those that have ever been faced by any modern president," says Eugene Steuerle of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.

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Victoria Craig Host, BBC

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Erika Soderstrom Producer/Director

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