“Affordability” has caught traction this year, with rising prices putting pressure on many low-and middle-class Americans. The Federal Reserve is carefully balancing a cooling job market with inflation as it decides on interest rate cuts. Concerns about an AI bubble have grown.
Where is the U.S. economy as the year ends, and what’s in store for 2026?
Here & Now‘s Scott Tong talks with Aaron Ross Sorkin, who writes the Dealbook newsletter for the New York Times and is a cohost of “Squawk Box” on CNBC. He’s the author of the book “Too Big to Fail,” about the 2008 financial crash, and his most recent book is “1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How It Shattered a Nation.”
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