Quote (majorblood @ Sep 14 2017 12:10am)
at what point is it no longer obama's economy in your head? you realize obama never made 3% gdp while president?
are you arguing the effect of any president on the economy?
The traditional time is usually, at the very least, when the new president's first budget actually goes into effect, and is typically not until a year after when said budget has played out and economists have a chance to evaluate assessed data (i.e. job reports and many other metrics are always estimated and not verified for several months).
Congratulating Trump on this economy is akin to blaming Obama for 2009's job losses and deficit, which no reasonable person would do. You can probably credit Trump to some degree, because the consumer confidence index of the conservatives that "real news" like Fox scared into not spending have come out to play, but yeah.
Overall, any one President has a much less role in the workings of the economy than popular media seems to believe and the effects of any one President's policies takes decades to fully analyze. Even the recession that was in Bush's 8th year has roots in Clinton and as far back as the policies of Reagan.
Well, excellence, you got me there. Trump really did just kind of run on nothing.