That's not an economic miracle. ESPECIALLY when you consider that Trump (to the extent he can be credited with the 0.1% increase) did it by significantly increasing the national debt to give tax breaks that overwhelmingly favored the wealthy.
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Biden inherited a post-pandemic economy and yes inflation spiked because of supply chains and opportunism but it stopped climbing in July of 2022 and, for the most part, it continued to fall until it reached the desired 2-3% range.
By the way, the Inflation Reduction Act was passed in August of 2022 so, no, Biden's policies did not cause the inflation since the increased inflation occurred before the legislation was signed and fell afterwards.
If anything that shows that the IRA worked. Also, also US peak inflation was lower than countries like Germany (Europe's strongest economy) and it more or less consistently fell after peaking.
I bring all this up because I think a lot of this gauzy "things were better under Trump" bullshit is based entirely on judging a post-pandemic economy against a pre-pandemic economy.
The average GDP growth rate under Biden was 2.8% (0.1% higher than the average GDP from 2017-2019) and the average unemployment rate under Biden was ~4.9% (which includes the high unemployment coming out of the pandemic).
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