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The top economic issues in 2019

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David Wessel, senior fellow and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, discusses the top economic issues facing the United States in the upcoming year. Also in this episode, Molly Reynolds, senior fellow in Governance Studies, offers her analysis of issues facing the newly-sworn in 116th Congress.

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