U.S. fiscal health is at higher risk after Trump won the election. Marketplace’s David Brancaccio speaks with Harvard professor Jason Furman to learn more.

Higher tariffs and lower taxes are key to Trump’s plan. The WSJ’s Greg Ip weighs their potential effect on the economy Biden and the Fed built.

American consumers bear the brunt of tariffs — despite what the former president has said on the campaign trail.

The IRS based the changes on an inflation rate of 2.8%.

Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris support eliminating federal taxes on tips. It might attract votes from tipped workers, who make up 2.5% of the American labor force. But what would it mean for tax policy?

Alan Rappeport, economic policy reporter at The New York Times, examines the former president’s assertions about inflation, taxes and energy.

The Republican Party says it will maintain Social Security and Medicare entitlements without cutting benefits, but that’s a tall order.

Social Security has been known as “the third rail of American politics” since the early 1980s, with the idea that touching the program can prove deadly to a politician’s career.

Plus, we get smarter on “AI slop” and do the numbers on workplace protections for pregnant workers.

It could lead to collecting more than $50 billion dollars in tax revenue over ten years.