Lots of this floating around the U.S. economy
Back in December 2021, we published the “Biden Boom” story. At the time, we noted how, in less than one year in office, President Joe Biden had already made great strides in the U.S. economy. That included, for example, getting economic growth up and unemployment down from the 2020 Trump Recession caused in large part by Donald Trump‘s failure to act on COVID. At the time, we suggested spreading this good economic news.
Now it’s more than 18 months later, and while Trump is busy begging for donations to defend himself against a growing pile of criminal indictments, President Biden has been busy helping all of us. As a result, the U.S. economy continues to defy the predictions of the doom and gloomers, including many in the mainstream media. This continuing Biden Boom is the great untold story of 2023. For example:
–Unemployment is only 3.6 percent, near the all-time low
–The U.S. has created over 13 million jobs since President Biden took office, which shatters the job creation record for a president’s 4-year term in just two and a half years.
–Inflation, which rose sharply due to the economic rescue steps needed after Trump’s COVID failures, is now down to three percent.
–U.S. Gross Domestic Product (i.e. economic growth) is still going strong at well over 2 percent annually.
–U.S. manufacturing growth has sharply rebounded under President Biden, and according to Axios, “outpaces the rest of the world.”
While all of this good economic news is occurring, a crucial moment took place last Wednesday, when Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell stated that the Federal Reserve staff no longer forecasts a U.S. recession. This means the U.S. is likely headed for the much sought-after but rare “soft landing” of lowering inflation without causing a recession. Large companies like Caterpillar, reporting very high profits, agree.
This continuing, indeed improving, Biden Boom is no accident. Among other steps, President Biden got Congress to pass his Infrastructure Law, the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and more. President Biden and his White House team are using the term “Bidenomics“ for his approach, which is described as “rebuild[ing] our economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down.” In particular, according to the Biden White House, the elements of “Bidenomics” are:
- Making smart public investments in America
- Empowering and educating workers to grow the middle class
- Promoting competition to lower costs and help entrepreneurs and small businesses thrive
If you haven’t heard all about this strong Biden Boom economy, it’s no accident. The mainstream media would rather talk about laptops, bathroom use and political horse races instead of informing us about important news that directly affects us. Therefore, as always, we have to be the broadcasters and spread this news ourselves, over whatever platforms we use, including social media, emails and texts to our friends, colleagues and loved ones, bringing up the news at the family dinner table, etc.
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