Joe Biden and his economic team have frequently seemed clueless when it comes to what’s going on with the economy.
If we go back to 2021, first, they denied inflation, then they claimed it would be “ transitory,” then they tried to blame it on everyone and anything else but Biden and his policies.
Let’s listen to Jared Bernstein, who was on Joe Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, as he explained in 2022 that it depends on what the meaning of “transitory” is. This is right up there with Bill Clinton for gall, and Kamala Harris for word salad.
Biden Economic Adviser Jared Bernstein on the administration having previously defined inflation as transitory:
“The lack of specificity about the cadence that was implied by that word, the temporal cadence implied by that word, led to a level of ambiguity…” pic.twitter.com/f0iWcvCRxl
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 18, 2022
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