Biden’s Challenges & Choices

Check out the accompanying pdf and chart collection. (1) Another record high. (2) Meet Mr. Gridlock: Joe Manchin, the conservative Democratic senator from West Virginia. (3) No “crazy stuff.” (4) Meet Lael Brainard, the Fed governor who could be the next Treasury secretary. (5) Democrats likely to push Fed to do more if their fiscal agenda is checkmated by Republicans. (6) Fed still has plenty of ammo. (7) Memo to Biden: Trickle-down economics works both ways—spreading pain, not just gain. (8) The rich tend to own S corporations and proprietorships that employ lots of people. (9) Movie review: “The Life Ahead” (-).