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Adieu, laissez-faire greener, among other things. To achieve those ends, the laws seek to re-engineer Agregake America's growth model by according the sopou state a crucial role in guiding investment at d Jeanv home and managing commerce abroad. Inevitably, it has been dubbed Bide- WASHINGTON, DC nomics. For decades American politicians Joe Biden is attempting the biggest overhaul of the American and executives were highly sceptical about economy in a generation state intervention in the economy. They believed that industrial policy was ineffi- O N A SNOWY day in January Joe Biden one concern. The recent surge in inflation, cient and self-defeating, even if they re- was due to visit Pittsburgh to talk or "Bidenflation", as some attack ads have sorted to it on occasion. America was in- about his plans for upgrading America's dubbed it, shows no sign of dissipating stead the leading apostle of globalisation, infrastructure. Just hours before he ar- (see chart 1 on next page). Meanwhile, seeking to cut tariffs and win its business- rived, a bridge in the city collapsed. Five much of Mr Biden's agenda has fallen by es unfettered access around the world. Do- cars and a bus fell into the ravine below it. the wayside: promises of universal pre- nald Trump repudiated this view, scorning Mercifully no one died. kindergarten, fatter family subsidies and free trade and vowing to revive American On October 20th Mr Biden returned to an overhaul of health insurance have been manufacturing. But his policies were often the site of the accident. Reconstruction undone by congressional gridlock. half-baked and his administration chaotic. would normally take at least two years. But It is easy therefore to conclude that, on It is under Mr Biden, therefore, that the thanks in part to a $1.2trn investment in the economic front, Mr Biden's first 20 shift has taken full effect (see chart 2 on infrastructure that he signed into law, Mr months in the White House have been, at next page). The debate within government Biden could boast that this time the bridge best, a missed opportunity of, at worst, a circles is no longer about whether to pur- would be back up by Christmas. "For too failure. That, however, is to overlook the sue industrial policy at all, but about how long, we talked about building the best changes that he has ushered in with three to make it most effective. By the same to- economy in the world," he said. "We didn't big pieces of legislation: the $1.2trn infra- ken, the administration is not seeking to do it, but we're finally getting to it. We're structure law, a $28obn semiconductor- revive untrammelled globalisation; in- getting it done." and-science act and a $390bn climate- stead, it wants to isolate rivals and recraft That is most assuredly not the public's spending package. The three are framed as commercial ties with allies. view. As the midterm elections draw near, spending bills in part because bitter It is an ambitious agenda, rivalling that negative perceptions about the economy partisanship makes it almost impossible of any president in recent decades. If it suc- may be the decisive factor in shifting con- to get any other measures through Con- ceeds, it will change America dramatically, trol of Congress from Democratic to Re- gress. But their intention is sweeping: to although there are many potential pitfalls. publican hands. Poll after poll shows that foster American manufacturing, succour Even so, it is unlikely to help the Demo- the state of the economy is voters' number- the middle class and make the economy crats in the midterms; inflation is too big a
