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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. Behold a new American industrial policy. Behold bi-denomics.

The Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the Chips and Science

Act. The proclaimed goals of bi-denomics are to speed a green energy transition to confront

climate change, revive American manufacturing and union density, and check China's economic

and military power. President Biden recently described this economic agenda as a, quote,

fundamental break from the economic theory that has failed America's middle class for decades now,

trickle down economics. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan criticized, quote,

a set of ideas that champion tax cutting and deregulation, privatization over public action,

and trade liberalization as an end in itself, synthesized in the belief, quote,

that markets always allocate capital productively and efficiently. The Biden administration,

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