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'Desperate' Trump is 'just making a lot of this up': Wall Street expert
What happened
AlterNet reports that investor and former journalist Steve Rattner accused President Donald Trump of misrepresenting inflation and gasoline prices while blaming former President Joe Biden for current economic conditions. Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Rattner said inflation was below 3 percent when Biden left office and had since risen; the article gives both 3 percent and 3.7 percent as the current figure without resolving that discrepancy.
Rattner also rejected Trump’s description of Biden-era inflation as the “worst” in American history, pointing to substantially higher…
The skinny
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