Hi, it's Carol Markowitz. I'm so excited to launch my very own podcast. We'll talk to the

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Well, you know that groceries are now breaking the bank. Gas prices are soaring and mortgage

rates are through the roof, but the Biden administration still says that Bidenomics is working.

Well, I've got the former economic policy advisor to President Trump. Larry Cudlow with me here

to give us his take. You can catch him every weekday at 4 p.m. Eastern on his Fox business show.

Larry, welcome to the podcast. Tell us what you think about Bidenomics.

Bidenomics. Bidenomics is not doing well. That's what I would say about Bidenomics.

Listen, the problem with Bidenomics is the issue of affordability. And you mentioned a couple

things. Gasoline prices have come down, but they're still way ahead of where they were a couple

years ago. Where Donald Trump left them. And wages have gone up and people are working,

but the trouble is the level of the consumer price index has gone up much more.

So again, real wages are falling. Ordinary working folks, typical families probably lost

something in the neighborhood of $7,000 in the last couple of years. And again, in the prior

years, they rose by almost $7,000 according to new revisions coming out of the government.

And then the other problem you've got besides real wages falling, grocery prices have been rising

at a substantial rate. I mean, actually, you know it's so much fun here. Economists haven't

forbid economists love to look at the inflation rate. And they say, well, we have to look at the

core rate. We have to exclude food and energy. So I think that's a big problem because food,

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