We’re going to set aside the palace intrigue around new White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci today (yes, even that) and take a look at his finances instead. He ran a fund-of-funds firm called SkyBridge Capital, which he sold to a Chinese company to take a government job. We’ll take a look at the sale and how much “The Mooch” is set to make from it. Then: a deep dive into the challenges and promise of wind farms at sea and a visit to a virtual charter school in Erie, Pennsylvania.

The Federal Open Market Committee wrapped up its meeting today. No changes in interest rates, as we all knew there wouldn’t be. But the Fed did change its narrative of the American economy. We’ll try to read the tea leaves in Chair Janet Yellen’s statement. Then: Amazon says it’s hiring 50,000 people for fulfillment centers all around the country. That’s about a quarter of all the jobs the entire economy has been adding every month. But is the hiring spree actually as big a deal as it seems? Plus: A Nashville organization tries to pair refugee organizations with hipster restaurants.

The Senate’s effort to repeal-and-something Obamacare inched forward a bit today, and the next 24 hours or so are going to be busy. We’ll walk though what happens next. Then: The Federal Reserve meets tomorrow, so let’s talk interest rates. The benchmark federal funds rate has gone up a full percentage point since the Fed started hikes. So why isn’t your saving account making a thing? Plus: Farmers are struggling thanks mostly to low commodity prices amid a global grain glut. We’ll look at the view from the wheat fields.

There are two big votes on Capitol Hill tomorrow, and we’ll talk about both on the show today. First, the House is taking a bill on Russian sanctions. They’re a source of tension with the White House and some businesses in the European Union who say they’ll be squeezed. Then: As health care keeps gobbling up more and more of our economy, controlling costs is something everybody agrees on. Ahead of another Senate vote tomorrow, we’ll look at the Affordable Care Act’s Innovation Center, which finds ways to slow spending while looking out for patients. Plus, some of the best views of the upcoming solar eclipse will be from rural Oregon. That’s an economic super nova for one farming town. 

While the Senate keeps on trying to figure out what it’s gonna do about health care, there are plenty of other economic policy problems to deal with. The next big project on the table is tax reform. We take a look at how that debate is shaping up. Also on today’s show: What do gold, glitz and lawsuits have in common? The Trump International Hotel. Plus, we talk to Clint Rainey from Bloomberg Businessweek about America’s cheese surplus and the “mad cheese scientists” who are trying to solve it. That’s right, cheese scientists.   

After years of trying, the Republican-controlled Congress won’t be replacing Obamacare or even repealing it with a replacement TBD. President Trump’s new plan, he said today, is “just let Obamacare fail.” Leaving aside that’s quite a thing to say about a sixth of the economy, you might wonder how insurers are taking the news. Turns out, most of them don’t make much money in the individual market anyway. We’ll look at UnitedHealth, which is mostly out of the exchanges, but posted huge second-quarter earnings today. Then: The fizzled-out health care reform pushed the dollar to an 11-month low today. Investors are doubting we’ll see any of Trump’s big promises delivered soon, but D.C. gridlock isn’t the only thing driving down the dollar. Plus: How do you know your neighborhood’s gentrifying? When South Harlem becomes “SoHa.” 

The White House’s “Made In America Week” started with a lot of trade news. Trade reps from China and the U.S. will meet Wednesday, and this afternoon we got the administration’s objectives for renegotiating NAFTA. We’ll talk about both. Then: Back-to-school shopping used to be like Christmas for some retailers, but now it happens all year round. Plus, because it’s still summer after all, we have an interview with the inventor of the self-sealing water balloon. Finally, as part of our ongoing series “Way of Life,” we’ll look at the tough-to replace food jobs that have left Chicago.