It’s a good point.
Don’t misunderestimate Mr Trump
I won’t click this trash past the excerpt.
If every other president has taken credit for
economic good times, which they probably have,
then to say it is a fatal mistake for this
president to do the same thing is moronic.
Wrong! (Trump voice)
Who exactly put the breaks on regulations? Who reversed some of the worst regulations? If Trump did then yes he is responsible for a more vibrant economy.
Trump has no problem elbowing the deep state in the nose.
Just what the DR ordered IMHO
Oh, you mean like yesterday when ABC put that trash out about him and the market dropped 300+ points? That kind of miniscule?
I usually like articles from this site, but who is this MAROON?
A president taking credit for a good economy? I’m SHOCKED!
The difference this time is that Trump actually DESERVES the credit!
His Bully Pulpit remarks alone are worth a couple GDP points. Not to mention the total turn around in economic expectations.
Oh yeah, and there are those pesky little facts... GDP, unemployment number, employment numbers, stock market. trade, etc.
WINNING! I love Donald J Trump!
So Oprah revived the economy? WTF?
The author is right about his finer technical points on economics, but he's wrong to call this a "mistake" on Trump's part. In his haste to criticize Trump for being a shameless self-promoter, he fails to mention that Trump is also America's biggest cheerleader and confidence-builder.
Consumer confidence has more to do with the economy than anything else.
Obama tried to b.s. his way with the “summer of recovery” that every thinking person knew was not happening.
People are spending money because we have a president trying to drive the country in way that promotes freedom, liberty and nationalism.
The writer, just like most in high places has spent too much time in academia and not in the common real working mans world.
Cutting dozens of job killing regulations doesn’t hurt.
The Twitter link goes no where. Says Nothing, Complete BS
No. This is the author's "gravest mistake". The US economy up to 2016 was heavily regulated and highly taxed. It wasn't "free(ish)".
So this president's influence has been more than "minuscule". He has deregulated and he has lowered taxes (a little bit).
That said, Trump's actions have put off a collapse, but one will eventually come if we don't take action on our spending problem.
That was the first clue.
"I am generally indifferent toward Trump"
That was the second clue.
"Recently, Trump made the mistake yet again by tweeting this"
That was the third clue.
This paragraph alone qualifies this guy as an idiot not worth considering. Obama did not have a recovery, he impeded economic growth. Reagan got the economy booming after Carter had single handedly killed it. Presidential economic policies have profound effect on the economy through tax, trade, energy and regulatory policies.
I think liberals write articles like dogs pee on lamp posts. They can’t help themselves.
Right! Just like they told us R. Reagan was the worst president ever! History can write all the books they want but eventually it falls on what people think at the end of a presidency! And Reagan was one of the best presidents ever! And Ovomit will be written as one of the worst president replacing Jimmy Carter!
“No one should have given Obama credit for the recovery . . .”
I assume this character is talking about a recovery so anemic no one was really able to much notice it? I’ve seen plots of growth rates coming out of recessions over the past 50 to 70 years, and that plot for the Obama years stands out in stark contrast to all the others in terms of its weakness and extensive lag time.
I think you can make a case that Presidents can’t do all that much to boost the economy, but they can sure do a heck of a lot (insane regulation, crony favoritism and electronic money-printing, to mention a few things) to mess one up.
Sorry, but the outstanding economic success we have had since TRUMP kicked The loser Obozzo out of office is no accident. The economic prosperity under Trump is unaparraled for any President in his first term in the history of the Republic.
Trump has proven himself to have the greatest understanding and mastery of how to make America prosperous of any leader we have ever known.