Bidenomics: seismic shift or Trumpist nationalism retooled?

Bidenomics: seismic shift or Trumpist nationalism retooled?
Joe Biden's economic agenda is anything but sleepy.
Pattrick Smellie
So much for “Sleepy Joe”.As his first 100 days of leadership slide by, 78-year-old Joe Biden is emerging as a most unusual American president.In a country where politics has increasingly seemed geared to and controlled by the so-called "one percent", Biden is turning his attention to the other 99%.Take this quote from last week’s American Jobs Plan speech to Congress: “Wall Street didn’t build the country. The middle class built the country. And unions built the middle class.“So that’s why&nbs...

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