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Remember Reaganomics? Freakonomics? Now there's Bidenomics

Jared Bernstein, President Biden's new top economic adviser, says that

Bidenomics. It's the term the press (and the White House) are now using to sum up the president's economic agenda.

"Bidenomics...I don't know what the hell that is," Biden said at a union rally this month. "But it's working."

Perhaps it is. Unemployment is low. The economy is growing. But in surveys, voters disapprove of the president's economic leadership.

In a conversation on, host Steve Inskeep spoke with Biden's.

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