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WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 28: U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question during a swearing in ceremony for interim U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. Jeanine Pirro (R) in the Oval Office of the White House on May 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump has announced Pirro, a former Fox News personality, judge, prosecutor, and politician, after losing support in the Senate for his first choice, Ed Martin, over his views on the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
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In an aerial view, a shipping container is lifted off a container ship docked at the Port of Oakland on April 28, 2025 in Oakland, California. Federal Reserve economists revised up their projections for inflation this year and lowered their expectations for economic growth.
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A customer shops at a department store in Queens on April 10 in New York City.
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President Donald Trump's new "recommended" tariff level is more than double the size of the 20% initial “reciprocal” tariff on the EU.
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New models of the Apple iPhone 16 are displayed after Apple's "It's Glowtime" event in Cupertino, California, September 9, 2024. Apple on Monday announced a new iPhone built for generative artificial intelligence as it seeks to boost sales and show it is keeping up in the technology race. (Photo by Nic Coury / AFP) (Photo by NIC COURY/AFP via Getty Images)
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A worker prepares to load boxes of goods for export before loading them on a container at a logistics hub on April 29, 2025 in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China. Chinese goods shipped to the United States faced 145% tariff until a week ago.
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Growing concern about the national debt impacted home borrowing rates this week.
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Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during a Bloomberg Television interview on the sidelines of the JPMorgan China Summit in Shanghai, China, on Thursday, May 22, 2025. Dimon said he can't rule out the US economy will fall into stagflation as the country faces huge risks from both geopolitics, deficits and price pressures. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Jamie Dimon warns that stagflation, an economic nightmare scenario, is still a risk
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A view of a container terminal in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province Friday, May 16, 2025.
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Highlights

Shoppers consider big-screen televisions on display in a Costco store on April 1, 2025, in Thornton, Colorado.
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Americans’ optimism about the economy is at a near-record low
Air conditioning your home is expected to cost more this summer.
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Cooling your home could hit a record high this summer
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon delivers a speech at the Global Markets Conference. He has said he continues to fear that higher tariffs will usher in a recession.
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Jamie Dimon continues to warn of recession, despite pullback in China tariffs
Economists expected wholesale inflation would cool in April, with the Producer Price Index slowing to an annual rate of 2.4%.
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