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Justin Wolfers, Ryan Mac & Miles Parks

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

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The Disjunction Between Popular Opinion and Media Reporting Versus Reality

"This has been a case where the disjunction between popular opinion and media reporting versus reality has been larger than I've ever seen in my life," he says. "There actually is something bad going on at the moment: Inflation is high, but it's actually better than we thought." The debt ceiling crisis could have really crashed the U.S. economy and hurt the Biden presidency; that did not happen.

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