(11-29-2017 02:36 PM)GrayBeard Wrote:  

(11-29-2017 02:34 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(11-29-2017 02:27 PM)GrayBeard Wrote:  

(11-29-2017 02:16 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(11-29-2017 02:03 PM)GrayBeard Wrote:  Obama never had better than 3% for any calendar year, which I believe makes him the first President in history to have such a lackluster economic performance.

2015 was 2.9%, 2014 was 2.6% and 2010 was 2.5%. But he also had quarters of 4.6, 3.1, 4, 4.6. 5.2 and 3.2. All the same or better than two of trump's so far. Additionally, if you can't show that trump has done anything specifically to get credit for the last two quarters, some of that has to go to the condition things were left in, right? Not saying all, but some surely does.

Go back to my original statement about President's needing to get out of the way. I have never claimed that any President stimulated/caused GDP growth. Pay attention there and keep up.

Also, we honestly can't judge Trump's GDP record until much later in his Presidency. It is way too soon to tell.

I was not implying you were saying that. Apologies for not making that clear. I was just anticipating others to try and say that without providing any source material that trump has caused it.

Plus, I think we have some bad stuff coming and it didn't matter who the President was. We seemed to have learned nothing from 2008 and I fear that we are soon to repeat it.

Yep...especially with trump's hard-on to let Wall Street do what they want to all over again like what lead to the last collapse, despite the right's hard-on to blame Barney Frank alone for causing it.