Opinion: Biden gets the blame for inflation staying higher for longer, but he shouldn’t

U.S. inflation has come down, but not enough for voters to stop complaining about high prices.

Since U.S. President Joe Biden took office, the economy has recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns and is now advancing, just as economists expected in 2019 before the pandemic was on the horizon.

The rub is that prices have jumped 18% on…

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