In 1984, the federal government began taxing Social Security benefits for individuals whose income exceeded a certain threshold. Congress approved the change in the previous year as part of a sweeping overhaul meant to protect the Social Security trust fund from insolvency.

Rob Subbaraman is preparing for his second Trump presidency with a new accessory in his economist toolkit: the head of global markets research at Nomura Holdings Inc. has downloaded Truth Social, the President-elect’s conservative social media platform. “I’m going to get in trouble with my kids,” said Subbaraman, who’s been in his current role in Singapore for a decade.

There is a piece of folk wisdom on the internet about the perils of getting too much attention online. “Each day on Twitter there is one main character,” the maxim states. “The goal is to never be it.