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Opinion: So what is 'Bidenomics' anyway? Certainly not the key to President Biden's reelection
The Los Angeles Times via Yahoo ^ | July 23, 2023 | By Lori Cox Han

Posted on 07/23/2023 2:37:37 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The ghost of Ronald Reagan seems to be haunting — or at least consulting — Joe Biden’s White House. The administration’s recent embrace of the term “Bidenomics,” which echoes “Reaganomics,” seeks to turn a less-than-complimentary jab from the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times into a positive talking point about Biden’s economic accomplishments.

Just before Biden delivered a major economic speech in Chicago last month, his press office announced that Bidenomics is “the word of the day, word of the week, word of the month, word of the year.” As a strategic move, however, this particular presidential coinage might not be as smart as they think it is.

Let’s start with the Reagan connection. “Reaganomics” was coined in the early 1980s by the legendary conservative radio broadcaster Paul Harvey, who, unlike the wordsmiths who invented “Bidenomics,” was sympathetic to the program.

Experts and partisans still debate the successes and failures of Reaganomics. Regardless, while Reagan never publicly used the words “trickle-down” or “Reaganomics,” his economic policies remain a significant part of his legacy for those who admire the man and his presidency.

The Bidenomics message seems to be all strategy, little substance and generally off the mark at a moment when the president desperately needs to convince the country that his leadership is better than the alternative. Asking politicians to set aside strategic and messaging gimmicks is probably too much, but the Biden team needs to give voters some credit for understanding all the issues that matter.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brandon; dementia; donatedonaldtrump; donatefreerepublic; donatetrump; economy; election2024; fjb
Lori Cox Han is a professor of political science at Chapman University and the author of several books on the American presidency.
1 posted on 07/23/2023 2:37:37 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Something equivalent to “Trickle Down Economics” as elegantly described by Thomas Sowell.


2 posted on 07/23/2023 2:39:20 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Bidenomics” had something to do with “Modern Monetary Theory,” didn’t it?

Print enough money and everything will work out great?


3 posted on 07/23/2023 2:40:03 PM PDT by x
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bidenomics: they control voting. It’s production and counting


4 posted on 07/23/2023 2:42:39 PM PDT by Gaffer ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Tax and Spend


5 posted on 07/23/2023 2:50:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bidenomics is the Democrats plans to destroy the Middle Class then take away yheir assault weapons, which is any semiautomatic weapon, and then establish their long sought after Socialist Paradise.


6 posted on 07/23/2023 2:55:43 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...all strategy, little substance and generally off the mark...”


Describes this administration pretty well.


7 posted on 07/23/2023 3:05:49 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Reaganomics = trickle down

Bidenomics= trickle on…the American taxpayers

8 posted on 07/23/2023 3:07:15 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bidenomics is media enabled socialism designed to crush America and Capitalism.


9 posted on 07/23/2023 3:15:21 PM PDT by G Larry (It is RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants by importing Cheap ILLEGAL Labor!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, they couldn’t very well use “Malaise” as it was already taken, so...bidenomics.


10 posted on 07/23/2023 3:30:44 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: hanamizu

Indeed. Their embrace of this term a couple weeks ago is so bizarre, so lacking in substance, but perfectly consistent with their approach to governance: all attempts at affecting style, but utterly lacking in substance.

BTW, I don’t remember it being applied to Ford or Carter, but otherwise the “nomics” suffix has been applied to every President since Nixon. That these simpletons thought it was something fresh and exciting just shows what effin cretins they are.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixonomics


11 posted on 07/23/2023 3:49:33 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Be assured that the democrat party and their confederate legacy media and corporations will convince a great number of clueless Americans that Bidenomics has saved our economy. Facts and numbers don't matter to so many Americans - they believe what they are told to believe by democrats and their media pundits.

You can fix ignorant but you can't fix stupid!

12 posted on 07/23/2023 4:19:44 PM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: thegagline

Bidenomics is the polar opposite of Reganomics.

Fork over the American people to crush the middle class between the mill stones of taxation and inflation.

Bidenomics is Obama’s policies redone. Copied from Karl Marx.


13 posted on 07/23/2023 5:47:12 PM PDT by Texas resident (We are living through Barak's fundamental transformation)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Bidenomics" means borrowers don't have to pay back their debts, tenants don't have to pay their rents, landlords cannot evict renters who fail to pay, and the Big Guy gets 10% off the top.

-PJ

14 posted on 07/23/2023 5:48:40 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

bidumbnomics

same as

ebonicnomics

generational welfare


15 posted on 07/23/2023 5:51:13 PM PDT by Firehath
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They are high inflation, lying, and fudging numbers


16 posted on 07/23/2023 7:05:13 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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