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A tall Trump-y tale about gasoline and '$1.98 per gallon'
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A tall Trump-y tale about gasoline and '$1.98 per gallon'

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One dollar and ninety-eight cents for a gallon of gasoline.

This is the figure that President Donald Trump has become fixated on — offering it up as proof that the nation’s economy is going in the right direction.

Except: Trump’s gasoline price bit is not true.

This weekend, I joined host James Hanson on LBC Radio in the UK to explain how Trump’s economic myths have their limitations — especially when people simply must drive down the street and look at their local gas station’s price board to see that the president is full of light sweet crude.

Meanwhile, a sticker shock crisis is about to smack American consumers straight upside the head in the form of the Chinese goods we all rely on.

Listen to the full interview above, or here, at this link.

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