This year featured much economic news, some concerning and some encouraging. Here are four of the economic stories that stood out in 2024.

This past year was an election year, and the economy was voters’ biggest concern. Anger about years of too-high inflation helped tilt the election in President-elect Donald Trump’s favor. Additionally, bitcoin had a banner year, the government fell further into fiscal trouble, and investors poured billions of dollars into artificial intelligence, betting that it is the future.

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