"Job Creation" is a Neoliberal Grift

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...with them, & is incompetent. The economy healed with unusual speed; the story never did. When facts lost to vibes, full employment and reindustrialization couldn’t beat inflation-driven anger…
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Affordability, Inflation, & the Misinformation Machine: How Prosperity Lost the Plot

Thanks to Bidenomics, full employment returned fast after the plague depression; but voters heard “affordability crisis” amid broken information channels. Housing’s post-GFC scar, health/childcare...

DeLong's Grasping Reality: Economy in the 2000s & Before
They should change the name of the Better Business Bureau to the Better Business Biden because he was sooooo much better at the economy. 🤷 🤔 💸 📈 #Bidenomics

Well, it worked out so well for the Democrats, didn't it?

These are not serious people, and Rachel Reeves is more unserious than most. Utter clown....

#Bidenomics #UKPOL #UKPolitics #USPOL #RachelReeves #Labour #Immigration #IslandOfStrangers

In Biden's first 100 days, he facilitated 200 million vaccination shots. By April 2024 COVID cases were on the decline in over half of U.S. states
The American Rescue Plan in under 100 days, the most significant piece of legislation to benefit working families in the modern history of this country, 
American Rescue Plan provided $1,400 stimulus checks (for low income), extra unemployment assistance & delivered $39 billion to states for childcare providers & unemployment hit a low
#bidenomics

@estherschindler "Economists have noted that a long stretch of low unemployment and rising incomes have helped Americans keep shopping."

4 years of improvement tossed out the window like an unwanted KGB agent

#Bidenomics worked, building up the economy, reducing unemployment, increasing wages, reducing debt

But Republicans just can't resist tanking the economy again. It's their hobby

Trump’s economic approval just hit the lowest point of his presidency. A majority of Americans say he’s not even trying to lower prices—just pushing tariffs that raise costs. MAGA’s “business genius” is sinking the economy. #TrumpWatch #Resist #Bidenomics www.cnbc.com/2025/04/19/t...

Trump's approval rating on the...
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#Bidenomics were conservative, in the sense of "do no harm."

The #Trumpcession will be (a) punishing and (b) self-inflicted. Small #tariffs are effective. These, insane.

"We've taken a step back & we're watching to see what the policies turn out to be & the ways in which they will affect the #economy. Then we'll be able to act. Fortunately, our policy stance is in a good place for us to do that." thanks to #Biden / #Bidenomics]

#TheFed, he added is in the same place as everyone else, awaiting clarity on policies.
[again, cuz shit is crazy]

#ETTTTS #Trump #tariffs #inflation #recession #geopolitics #USpol

#Dow rallies 500+pts with an assist from the Fed:

Stocks rallied on Wednesday as the Federal Reserve forecast it would still cut interest rates two times in 2025.

But Christine Romans reports Jerome Powell also remarked several times on the "remarkable unpredictability" of #Trumponomics.

Also says soft data's still falling apart (eg, consumer confidence) even as hard data's still benefiting from #Bidenomics.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/18/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

Dow closes nearly 400 points higher after Fed says two rate cuts are still in the cards for 2025: Live updates

Stocks rose on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve indicated that two rate cuts are still in its forecast for 2025.

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