Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucks Xton Show podcast.

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If you've been listening, inflation numbers came out this week. Not good for Democrats,

but big questions still loo over the economy in general recession jobs. What's going to happen here?

We have, as promised, Steve Moore with us now. He's an economist and a distinguished fellow in

economics at the Heritage Foundation former advisor in the Trump White House as well.

Steve, what was going on with the numbers this week, man? Looks like the transitory

just a smidgin of inflation line from Biden. Not going to stay for very long, is it?

Yeah, now this is the seventh month now of seven or eight months now of eight percent plus

inflation. And it was almost exactly a year ago. You're exactly right that Biden and the others

in the White House. That is temporary. It's transitory. It's going to go away. And remember,

the other thing they said about inflation, do you remember when the, I think it was White House

chief of staff on claim tweeted out that inflation was just a high class problem. Remember that?

That's the effects of high class people. Gee, I'm not in the high class and it sort of affects me.

And I fact it effects just by everybody listening to this radio show. So this is crisis. We're in a

real crisis. I think the most important thing for people to understand in terms of how we got here

because the people in the White House either are pretending they don't know or they're just

stupid is that we've spent and borrowed $4.1 trillion since Joe Biden came into office.

You could make a strong argument that Joe Biden is the most physically reckless president in

American history to ring up that kind of debt. And by the way, a lot of that was paid for by

just printing money. Now, if you, you don't have to have a PhD in economics, right? To understand,

if you're going to flush the zone and just saturate the economy with all of this cheap money,

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