Boom to Bust: How Biden Turned the Economy Around — Into a Debacle

And delivered a 3.4 percent wage cut in the past year, owing to inflation.

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President Biden at the Detroit Auto Show September 14, 2022. AP/Evan Vucci

It’s bad enough that President Biden held a James Taylor celebratory concert yesterday after a terrible consumer inflation report with soaring prices for food and groceries, electricity, natural gas, cars, medical care — pretty much everything beside a drop in gasoline — with a near 1,300-point stock market selloff and 30-year mortgage rates jumping up to almost 7 percent, decimating the housing sector.

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