Podcst
Tumbling economic sentiment — especially for Dems by Marketplace / Kai Ryssdal

Tumbling economic sentiment — especially for Dems

from Marketplace

by Marketplace / Kai Ryssdal

Published: Fri Feb 21 2025

Show Notes

American consumers agree: High prices aren’t going anywhere. All that stress about inflation, and throw in the impact of tariffs, heightens uncertainty, which translates into negative economic sentiment. But the severity of concern varies between Republicans and Democrats — a lot. Also in this episode: Private data can’t replace government data, oil tankers “go dark” and though the travel industry enjoyed healthy growth last year, new Trump policies could affect the upward trend.