Business Daily - Power Players: The most economy-focused mid-term ever? - BBC Sounds

World Service , · 08 Oct 2026 , · 20 mins

With less than a month to go until the US mid-term elections, voters are preparing to head to the polls with the economy high on the agenda. From the cost of living, interest rates and tariffs, how much will economic concerns shape the result? Rahul Tandon, Michelle Fleury and Will Bain look at whether the economy could prove to be the defining issue of these mid-terms.