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We continue with post-debate analysis, including your calls and texts at 212-433, WNYC,

but now only on the subject of inflation and other economy policies that we heard

from the two candidates last night.

And if you've been listening this week, you know we promised a specific look at the candidates

on inflation and other economic issues as part of our coverage, not just who tried to get over

on this one, who looked good,

who sounded bad. And we will do that now, even though the internal Democratic Party reaction

to Biden's debate performance has taken over most of the public conversation. But with us now

is Jeff Stein, White House economics reporter for the Washington Post. Jeff, thanks for coming on for this.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Brian, always a pleasure to be on. Thank you so much for having me.

And Trump and Biden blamed each other for inflation getting so high, but I was looking for what

they might say about their plans to control it better than the other guy in a second term.

Here's CNN's Jake Tapper asking Trump about

one of his signature policies. You want to impose a 10% tariff on all goods coming into the U.S.

How will you ensure that that doesn't drive prices even higher? It's not going to drive them higher.

It's just going to cause countries that have been ripping us off for years like China and many others, in all fairness to China. It's going to just force them to pay us a lot of money, reduce our deficit tremendously, and give us a lot of power for other things. But he made a statement, the only thing he was right about is I gave you the largest tax cut in history. I also gave you the largest regulation cut in history. That's why we had all the jobs.

And the jobs went down and then they bounced back and he's taking credit for bounce back jobs. You can't do that.

He also said he inherited 9% inflation. Now, he inherited almost no inflation and it stayed that way for 14 months.

And then it blew up under his leadership because they spent money

like a bunch of people that didn't know what they were doing. So, Jeff, first of all, anything

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