It really has been a remarkable rise. I remember election night when Dow futures fell hundreds of points and “experts” like Paul Krugman said the market would never recover. And then the next day people suddenly realized “Hey, Trump as President is actually a good thing”.
Remember Obama told us, not to pay attention to “the daily gyrations” of the stock market?
The reason the media don’t report this, is because people might think that somehow the policies of this president are causing this.
Economic bad news during the Obama years were downplayed, and blamed on anything but the polices of Obama. I remember one time, the media blamed a bad economic report on a snowstorm in the northeast; that the snow put a damper on economic activity. There was always some excuse besides the policies of Obama, which caused problems.
Paul Krugman is a Globalist who voted for Hillary