When it comes to the economy, why does Biden get little credit?
Inflation is cooling — but voters are still relatively unimpressed with the president's economic record
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Inflation is cooling — but voters are still relatively unimpressed with the president's economic record
As of July 13, just 38.7% of Americans approved of the way the president was handling the economy, according to a polling average from RealClearPolitics.
We now have the first post-neoliberal administration in power in Washington. The Biden administration has explicitly disavowed all aspects of neoliberalism, including the assumptions about free trade and the alleged efficiency of outsourcing, the lack of support for trade unions, and the bipartisan contempt for industrial policy Biden managed to get through Congress the most expansive technology and industrial policies since World War II.2
Trump is too narcissistic to see he's just being used by lawyers who tell him what he wants to hear