Consumer confidence has been taxed
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🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Consumer confidence, as assessed by The Conference Board, grew steadily the past few months. But in December, the index fell 7%. One likely driver? Agita over President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff proposal. Also in this episode: The Senate passes a pricey bill to fix a decades-old Social Security issue, President Joe Biden announces an investigation into China’s trade practices for chips, and we check in with an Asheville business recovering from Hurricane Helene.
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| 1:12.6 | The federal government's been busy in the final days of 2024. |
| 1:17.8 | We'll take a look at what some recent actions from the White House and Congress mean for the economy. |
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| 1:43.5 | A new front has opened up in the chip wars. |
| 1:46.6 | The Biden administration announced today it's investigating alleged unfair trade practices by China, |
| 1:53.3 | not related to the high-end chips that power AI and seem to get all the attention these days, |
| 1:59.1 | but the older everyday computer chips found in cars, household appliances, and medical devices. |
| 2:06.8 | Marketplace's Sabri Beneshore gets started with a look at why China's investment in these so-called legacy chips has U.S. officials concerned. |
| 2:15.6 | When the Chinese government invested hundreds of billions of dollars in solar manufacturing in China, |
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