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Bidenomics w/ Daniela Gabor, Ted Fertik, & Tim Sahay

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Bidenomics: A New Legislative and Macroeconomic Policy Mix to Contain Trumpism

Bidenomics is principally a new legislative and macroeconomic policy mix by Democratic Party elites to contain the threat of Trumpism. It's their answer to the question. Why can't the center hold? So their diagnosis is that economic and political polarization was created by the winner, takes all sort of low investment, low growth, neoliberal policy mix. The gap between those without college degrees and those with college degrees widened. That's the class component. And it left regions behind - super zips and suburban rural areas also widened. They now want to reverse these trends actively by pursuing legislative investment based agenda to restore broad based growth.

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