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here's an early drop of monday's episode of your Briefing. I'm J.R. Weillen for the Wall Street Journal.

The results of the presidential election could play a role in upcoming interest rates decisions by the Federal Reserve. But Fed officials will navigate a tricky economic picture as they settle on a rates move this week.

So that's a puzzle right now. Does strong consumer spending lead the labor market to stabilize

and for growth to stop slowing? Or does slowdowns in labor income growth lead consumer spending

to slow in the months ahead? We'll talk to Wall Street Journal Chief Economics correspondent Nick Timmeros.

After the break.

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The Federal Reserve is scheduled to announce two more decisions on interest rates before the end of the year,

the first of which is expected this Thursday.

Wall Street Journal Chief Economics correspondent Nick Timrose joins me.

Nick, we usually hear from the Fed regarding interest rates on Wednesdays.

Why Thursday this week?

Well, the election is on Tuesday.

They usually have a two-day meeting, so it seems that they did not want to start their meeting on Tuesday, so they pushed it back by a day just to have a little bit of space.

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