Alex Tanzi

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  • WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 02: U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a chart while speaking during a “Make America Wealthy Again” trade announcement event in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025 in Washington, DC. Touting the event as “Liberation Day”, Trump is expected to announce additional tariffs targeting goods imported to the U.S. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Politics

    Here are Trump’s reciprocal tariffs by country

    By Alex Tanzi, Rafael Gayol, and others
  • Woman with curly hair and glasses looking worriedly at bills.Finance

    Americans see growing risk they’ll get turned down for loans

    By Alex Tanzi and Bloomberg
  • People walk past a sign alerting people to keep their valuables safeFinance

    Want to meet a millionaire? Best chance is in Bay Area

    By Alex Tanzi and Bloomberg
  • Beautiful smiling young Asian woman carrying a shopping bag, standing outside a boutique looking at window display in a shopping mall in city. Sale season, festive shopping atmosphereRetail

    U.S. consumer spending is increasingly driven by richer households

    By Alex Tanzi and Bloomberg
  • Woman taking selfieLifestyle

    Online dating lets us look for similar education levels, adding to income inequality

    By Alex Tanzi and Bloomberg
  • apartments under constructionFinance

    Rent could start falling soon as builders complete the most apartments in 50 years

    By Alex Tanzi and Bloomberg
  • Fed Chair Jerome Powell gestures with handFinance

    It really might be different this time as the Fed puzzles over why high rates aren’t hitting the economy harder

    By Craig Torres, Alex Tanzi, and others
  • Worried mature man using laptop working at officeSuccess

    Middle-managers are the least confident they’ve ever been. One said they had to take several months ‘to recover from the intensity of the role’

    By Alex Tanzi and Bloomberg
  • Bald senior man wearing sunglasses while drinking juice in inflatable ring during vacationSuccess

    The U.S. is in the midst of another ‘Great Retirement’ wave

    By Alex Tanzi and Bloomberg
  • This ilustration shows a man counting US dollars in Caracas on January 28, 2019. – Venezuela devalued its currency by almost 35 percent on Monday to bring it into line with the exchange rate of the dollar on the black market. The exchange rate is now fixed at 3,200 bolivars to the dollar, almost matching the 3,118.62 offered on the dolartoday.com site that acts as the reference for the black market. (Photo by YURI CORTEZ / AFP) (Photo by YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images)Personal Finance

    40% of middle-income Americans say they’re depressed about their finances as inflation and higher interest rates take a huge mental toll

    By Alex Tanzi and Bloomberg
  • JERSEY CITY, NJ – SEPTEMBER 22: The sun rises behind the skyline of midtown Manhattan and the Empire State Building in New York City on September 22, 2023, as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)Personal Finance

    Sorry, California and New York: Your personal income fell for the first time since 2009

    By Alex Tanzi and Bloomberg
  • HAI’AN, CHINA – OCTOBER 22: A bank clerk counts US dollar banknotes on October 22, 2021 in Hai’an, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by Xu Jinbai/VCG via Getty Images)Personal Finance

    The wealthiest 20% of Americans have more money now than before the pandemic. Everyone is else is poorer

    By Alex Tanzi and Bloomberg
  • A man looks at frozen foods for sale at a Dollar Store in Alhambra, California on August 23, 2022. – US shoppers are facing increasingly high prices on everyday goods and services as inflation continues to surge with high prices for groceries, gasoline and housing. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)Personal Finance

    Inflation was so bad last year that real household income tumbled the most in 12 years, causing families severe economic pain

    By Alex Tanzi and Bloomberg
  • Longhorn Cattle in rural Oklahoma. (Photo by: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Personal Finance

    One state leads all others in stickiness—the glue that lures people born there to settle down and stay

    By Alex Tanzi and Bloomberg
  • PRODUCTION – 28 June 2023, Berlin: A woman sits at a computer workstation in the customer area at the Jobcenter Berlin Mitte. The second part of the citizen’s income reform comes into force on July 1. Photo: Carsten Koall/dpa (Photo by Carsten Koall/picture alliance via Getty Images)Success

    Workers are now far more gloomy about their employer’s future than they were during the depths of COVID lockdowns

    By Alex Tanzi and Bloomberg