We all may need a stiff drink over the next two weeks, but it doesn't have to be alcoholic.

I'm David Brancaccio. First, the economy and politics. In a subtle shift, a new survey of registered voters now slightly trust Donald Trump, more than Kamala Harris, to handle the economy.

That's according to the latest Financial Times, Michigan Ross poll out today. It's a small

shift on a subject that many voters say is the most important issue for them. Marketplace's Henry Ep reports.

Before President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, voters consistently said they put more trust in Trump to handle the economy.

But when Harris took over the Democratic ticket,

she immediately erased that deficit before outlining any specific economic policy proposals.

Eric Gordon is a professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, which co-sponsored

the poll. He says even after Harris articulated more specific proposals, like cracking down on price gouging and financial support for first-time homebuyers, she hasn't been able to improve on that initial bump and support.

We know a lot about her policies. She's made them very clear. And nothing much has changed. Well, the needles moved a little bit. Maybe Trump is half an inch ahead.

But there's been no change now that we know what Harris will do. So her economic policy hasn't won over a lot of people. It hasn't turned off a lot of people.

One positive for Harris in the F.T. Michigan poll by a 12-point margin, voters think she better represents the interests of the middle class, while they see Trump as a stronger representative of corporations and the wealthy.

A separate poll by the Associated Press released this week found mixed support for the candidates on specific economic issues.

More voters trusted Harris to handle taxes on the middle class,

jobs and unemployment, and housing costs,

while they put more trust in Trump on the cost of groceries and gas and on tariffs.

I'm Henry App for Marketplace.

I speak with the University of Chicago's James Robinson,

one of the three winners of the Nobel

Economics Prize the other day. He told me the dominant economic model the U.S. adopted

in the 1980s has, quote, done nothing for the majority of people in this country.

There's disagreement on what caused it, but it's obviously connected to automation, to globalization, and also,

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