“After five years of uncertainty and turmoil, the U.S. economy is ending 2024 in arguably its most stable condition since the start of the coronavirus pandemic,” the New York Times reports. “Inflation has cooled. Unemployment is low. The Federal Reserve is cutting interest rates. The recession that many forecasters once warned was inevitable hasn’t materialized.” “Yet the economic outlook for 2025 is as murky as ever, for one major reason: President-elect Donald Trump.”