Noel King

Bigger paychecks.

Or it's the Fed's fault.

The Fed needs to lower interest rates and we'll all be good.

Does Trump have a point here?

Is the Fed standing in the way of affordability?

All right, so Jay Powell's term as Fed chair is up next spring.

Trump has turned the process of finding replacement into a little bit of a show.

Who is the favorite at this point?

What are the stakes of having a Fed chair who's very loyal to the president, to a president like Trump?

Will he or won't he?

We're going to keep our third eye open.

Neil Irwin is the chief economics correspondent for Axios.

Coming up, why American presidents don't listen to economists anymore.

I'm Noelle King.

Vox senior correspondent Andrew Prokop has been writing for Vox about how from MAGA to Mamdani, America's political class stopped listening to economists.

All right.

So they're pushed from their lofty perch.

And at what point did they like hit the ground?

Like when when would you say this hits peak?

We don't respect economists anymore.