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Why Voters Didn’t Buy the ‘Biden Boom’ | E.J. Antoni, PhD While official statistics showed strong economic growth during Joe Biden’s presidency, they masked the fact that regular Americans were actually struggling as prices skyrocketed and paychecks lost value. E.J. Antoni, Ph.D., Heritage Foundation's chief economist, explains how under...

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