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<title><![CDATA[John Cassidy - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16794.xml</link><description><![CDATA[John Cassidy]]></description><category domain="16794">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Case for Zohranomics]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As some Wall Street billionaires melt down over Zohran Mamdani'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s policy platform, a prominent progressive economist argues that it meets the moment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Big Job Growth Bring an End to the 'Vibecession'?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/will-historic-job-growth-bring-an-end-to-the-vibecession</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Labor Department's March employment report shows the U.S. economy continuing to power ahead. Yet many voters' perceptions remain stubbornly negative.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Do the Polls Really Mean for Joe Biden?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With nearly eight months to go before the election, recent polling data shouldn't be taken as gospel, but it illustrates the electoral challenge facing the President.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[State of Union: What Biden Should Say About the Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-biden-should-say-about-the-economy-during-the-state-of-the-union</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the President's economic approval rating standing at just forty per cent, it's imperative for him to highlight some of his substantive achievements and talk about the future.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Makes Saving Democracy Center of His Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/joe-biden-makes-saving-democracy-the-center-of-his-campaign</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The President and his team are framing the 2024 race as a binary choice between him and an authoritarian Donald Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Anybody Stop Trump in the 2024 GOP Primary?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/can-anybody-stop-donald-trump-in-the-2024-republican-primary</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even as the former President has a commanding poll lead in a splintered field, one veteran G.O.P. consultant argues that it's too early to coronate him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is High Inflation Proving So Persistent?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-is-high-inflation-proving-so-persistent</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The final Consumer Price Index before the midterms came in higher than expected, but price rises are likely to moderate in the months ahead.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Violent Threats Too Dangerous to Disregard]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/trumps-threats-of-violence-are-too-dangerous-to-disregard</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the various investigations around the former President close in on him, his campaign to discredit and intimidate his accusers will only intensify.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Breaking Down NY's Fraud Lawsuit Against Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/breaking-down-new-yorks-long-awaited-fraud-lawsuit-against-donald-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Letitia James, the New York attorney general, claims that the Trump Organization illegally obtained hundreds of millions of dollars by systematically exaggerating the value of its properties.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Reaffirms His Destiny Is Defeating Trumpism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/joe-bidens-big-month</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The President is getting things done and reaffirming that his historic role is to defeat Trump and Trumpism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's Finally Some Encouraging News on Inflation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/as-gas-prices-dip-theres-finally-some-encouraging-news-on-inflation</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barring an escalation of the war in Ukraine or a deadlier new coronavirus variant, the rate at which prices are rising appears to have peaked.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Manchin's Latest Reversal Could Be a Game Changer]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/joe-manchins-latest-reversal-could-be-a-game-changer</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Finally, some positive news for President Biden and the Democrats despite the new G.D.P. report.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Take Surprising Drop in GDP at Face Value]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/dont-take-the-surprising-drop-in-gdp-at-face-value</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some special factors reduced headline growth in the first quarter.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jerome Powell's Double Message on Inflation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/jerome-powells-double-message-on-inflation</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Fed raised interest rates for the first time since 2018, but its chair insists the move won't deliver a serious hit to the wider economy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Big a Threat to Our Economy Is War in Ukraine?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-big-a-threat-to-the-us-economy-is-the-war-in-ukraine</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are more important things than inflation, such as defending democracies. But the longer the war goes on, the bigger the economic costs are likely to be.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Climate Opportunity in Supporting Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-economic-challenge-and-climate-opportunity-in-supporting-ukraine</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Putin's dependence on oil-and-gas exports presents a chance to make the U.S. less beholden to fossil fuels and the autocratic governments that control them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New York AG Increasing the Legal Pressure on Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/new-york-attorney-general-letitia-james-is-increasing-the-legal-pressure-on-donald-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A week after the former President's accounting firm disavowed his financial statements, a New York judge has ordered him and two of his children to answer questions under oath about the Trump Organization's financial practices.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[More Economic Sanctions May Not Deter Putin]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In an interview published over the weekend, Viktor Tatarintsev, Russia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Ambassador to Sweden, was asked about the threat of American and European economic sanctions should'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Vladimir Putin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' order an'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' invasion of Ukraine. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Excuse my language, but we don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t give a shit...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Trump's Big Lie Save Biden and the Democrats?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In modern American politics, there are no eternal winners'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'only two unpopular major parties that take turns losing. According to the latest Economist/YouGov polling data, forty-one per cent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party and thirty-six per cent have a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Three Economic Scenarios for an Election Year]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/three-economic-scenarios-for-an-election-year</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With ten months to the midterms, growth is strong but inflation is hurting the chances of Joe Biden and the Democrats.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Starts to Make His Economic Case]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After suffering a horrible second half of 2021, President Joe Biden came out fighting last week. On Thursday, he marked the anniversary of last January'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Capitol Hill riot by placing the blame squarely where it should lie'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'at the feet of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the former President of the United...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[With the 2022 Economy, Beware the Known Unknowns]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, the U.S. economy ended 2021 in strong shape. Holiday spending rose by 8.5 per cent compared with last year, according to a recent survey. In the four-week period that ended on December 25th, initial unemployment insurance averaged less...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Optimistic Scenario for Inflation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/an-optimistic-scenario-for-inflation</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The key thing for the economy, and for Biden's political prospects, is whether rising prices turn out to be temporary or permanent.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Is Distorting Inflation and Supply-Chain Problems]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/inflation-and-the-great-global-logjam</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Prices are surging for reasons largely beyond Joe Biden's control, but that won't stop G.O.P. cries of Bidenflation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Passing the Reconciliation Bill Would Give Biden a Boost]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democratic leaders are hoping this will finally be the week when Congress passes two major pieces of legislation that define Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s domestic agenda: a bipartisan infrastructure bill and a $1.75-trillion reconciliation bill that contains social and environmental programs....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When It Comes to Jobs: It's the Pandemic, Stupid]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/when-it-comes-to-jobs-its-the-pandemic-stupid</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[More than any other factor, the spread of COVID is limiting how many Americans are able to find work.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Still the Coronavirus Economy]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A disappointing jobs report shows that mass vaccination hasn't yet broken the link between the pandemic and our economic fortunes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Crunch Time for Biden and the Democratic Party]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago, I spoke to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Felicia Wong, the president and C.E.O. of the Roosevelt Institute, a progressive think tank with ties to the White House, about how'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' was faring. Wong complimented the President on uniting his Party, focussing on the pandemic, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Does the Delta Variant Mean for the U.S. Economy?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Predictions of a second Roaring Twenties have proved premature.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the Democrats Create a New Economic Model?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Cassidy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As I watched Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, facing some tough questions before Congress last week, my mind went back to October, 2008, when the Maestro himself, Alan Greenspan, the former Fed chair, went up to Capitol Hill and conceded that he had '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'found a...]]></description>
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