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Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gailan. Today, I'm joined by Ron and

Son, senior analyst and commentator at CNBC and a senior advisor at Troters North America.

Ron has been a highly respected business journalist and money manager in forever three decades

has written four books about Wall Street and is a sought after lecturer on domestic and global

economics, financial markets and economic policy issues. Today, he's coming to us from Inglewood,

New Jersey. Ron, welcome to the show. Reed, thanks for having me. It's pleasure. So today, Ron,

I want to talk about what you think is on the horizon for the American economy, as well as the

potential consequences for corporations waffling on where they stand on key issues related to our

democracy. But first, I want to talk about the i word and that's inflation. So let's get into it.

So Ron, based on polling and many news reports, inflation is the number one economic issue on the

minds of voters and Americans and how it plays out be critical in November. Americans are experiencing

the highest inflation rate increases since I was a little kid. I mean, Ron, I don't remember it

and is seeing the steepest increases in the cost of housing, meat, cars and obviously we see

gasoline all the time. Earlier this week, President Biden announced a three-part plan to fight inflation.

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