David Brancaccio

It will be Kevin Warsh, a former Fed governor who almost got the job last time back in 2017.

Warsh, in line with the president, thinks interest rates should be lower.

Warsh is said to have played a key role in the government's rescue of Wall Street during the 2008 mortgage crisis.

In a pushback against ICE and Border Patrol tactics, clergy, unions, and immigrant rights activists mounted what they called a general strike and economic blackout in Minnesota last week.

Some businesses closed, employees stayed home, with some participating in public protest.

For today, there are calls for a national shutdown in solidarity with people in Minnesota opposed to Trump administration immigration activities.

Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman has more on an American tradition that leverages the workplace.

Everyone loves a pop quiz, right?

So what market structure best describes the space agency NASA in the 1990s?

A. Government monopoly.

B. Commercial monopoly.

C. Oligopoly or D. Monopolistic competition.

If you went with A, government monopoly, congratulations.

You might do well in a high school course in financial literacy.

A subset of U.S.

states now require schools to teach some kind of financial literacy and economics as part about teaching about markets, entrepreneurship, and our system of capitalism.

Ayelet Sheffi got a better sense of some of those curricula.

She's senior education reporter at Business Insider.

Welcome.

In the last couple of years, since 2022, a dozen states have passed legislation requiring some kind of financial literacy in schools.