Steven Rattner

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344 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 16 Apr

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Then he said we're going to reduce the debt.

Well, we're running a deficit of $1.8 trillion, with a T, every year.

You're not going to reduce the debt if you're adding to the debt a couple trillion dollars a year.

Let's take a look at the next chart.

Affordability.

So you heard him say that it's a con job by the Democrats.

That is certainly contrary to what everybody thinks, including most Republicans.

Again, let's look at what happened and what is happening now.

So yes, we had COVID.

Inflation peaked at 9%, as I said.

These are the three income groups, top income groups, second and third.

All of them lost a lot of ground.

Their wages did not keep up with inflation.

So their standard of living went down.

Then inflation drops to 3%.

And still you see two out of the three income groups losing ground, the middle and the upper income groups.

Maybe not the upper one that we care the most about, but they were losing ground, too.

And lower incomes, you know, basically staying flat.

They never recovered all of what they lost back here.

Then Trump comes in and here's the amazing thing.

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