As companies seek to close growing gaps in skills and talent,

Deloitte US CEO Jason Garzatus believes it's important for organizations to understand their baseline of skills.

There's so many organizations that can't ask and answer the fundamental questions about how much computer science or data management skills do I have or AI development skills in a given domain?

By performing a skills inventory, leaders can truly understand where their efforts should be focused. Being blind to those gaps is the real miss.

Visit deloitte.com to learn how your enterprise can help successfully cultivate talent.

President Trump announces a dividend for American troops, saying his tariffs will pay for it.

Plus, the IRS tries out a new tool in its fight to track down profits shifted to low-tax countries.

And we'll drop in on some surprising stops along China's new Silk Road.

We spoke to one person who built a shed in their backyard in London.

They store these packages from the Chinese exporters, and then they package them up themselves

when the order comes in, and then they ship them off.

It's Thursday, December 18th.

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of

What's News, the top headlines and business stories, moving your world today.

President Trump defended his handling of the economy in a primetime address last night,

claiming to have brought down prices, announcing a warrior dividend of $1776 for active-duty

service members to be funded by tariff revenue and predicting a drop in housing costs.

The way do you see, the numbers are going to be shocking, and I'll soon announce our next

chairman of the Federal Reserve, someone who believes in lower interest rates

by a lot and mortgage payments will be coming down even further. The president also promised

that Americans would have the largest tax refund season of all time next year. He has teased

the prospect of sending $2,000 checks funded in part by tariffs to low and middle

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