Leading up to the 2024 elections, more Americans told pollsters they trusted Donald Trump to handle the economy than Kamala Harris, which was surely a factor in the president's return to the White House.

And now that he's back, he is making some very bold moves.

From KERA in Dallas, this is think. I'm Chris Boyd.

Less than a month in, and the president has used tariffs or the threat of tariffs to gain

concessions from key trading partners, Mexico and Canada, and enacted a 10%

tariff on everything this country imports from China. He's allowed his Department of Government

efficiency to cut thousands of federal jobs with more likely to come, which could be a big deal

for the economy, given that the federal government is the country's largest employer. And of course,

while it is unfair to blame the

president for the price of eggs, many Americans are looking to him to fix that. We wanted to get a

broad sense of the financial outlook for the country and how the exceptionally dynamic early weeks

of this presidential term might shape what is ahead for all of us. So we have invited Roje Kama

to join us. He is a staff writer at

the Atlantic covering economics and economic policy. Roge, welcome back to think. Great to be here.

Thanks for having me. So after some promising declines in the rate of inflation, we have seen

prices pick back up again so that January prices were up of 3% from a year earlier. How much

worse does 3% feel than the Fed's target rate of 2% year over year?

I think it actually, for most people, this will not feel very different, right? A difference

of 1% in the inflation rate isn't going to be something that consumers

notice at the grocery store or, you know, when loading up a tank of gas.

I think the more concerning thing about this inflation report is about what it says about

the direction of inflation. What it says is that maybe

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