Bubba benefited from the dot.com boom which being new was mostly unregulated. I remember many roads, which I had to drive, dug up to lay fiber, there being a law that allowed companies to do. There must be much unused band width buried.
Abolishing the EPA will free up much Idle manufacturing.
He inherited an economy that was already growing for a year and nine months, after a recession while the economy shifted from Cold War to peacetime.
He inherited the tech boom, which was already starting when he took office.
Y2K, which started later, provided a 300 billion dollar, but temporary, stimulus to the economy.
His "balanced budget" was helped by the tax revenue from all of this and didn't have to include the Cold War, which ended two years earlier.
None of this had anything to do with anything he did, but he was in office when the payoff came, so he got the credit.
Oh, and IMO he effectively punted the WOT and its costs to the next administration, in spite of the numerous attacks that occurred during his administration.
Just like in EVERY CASE , when
Republicans pick up power, the economy does better. When dim-0s pick up power,
the economy falters.
It happened when carter gained the WH, the economy got WORSE.
It happened when Reagan gained the WH, the economy got BETTER.
It happened when clinton gained the WH, economic growth dropped from over 4%,
to about 2% 2 years later.
It happened in jan ‘95, when Republicans took over congress, the economy caught
fire and sported some of the best times in our history, including balanced
budgets and even a PROJECTED surplus.
It happened in jan ‘01 when W. gained the WH. He inherited a recession, a crashing market and 9-11 with terrorists in our country planning and training. He turned that into the longest running jobs expansion in our history with an average 5.2% unemployment number.
It happened AGAIN in jan ‘07, when dim-0 gained control of congress promising
“CHANGE” from the 4.4% unemployment, mid 4% economic growth, and the
longest running jobs expansion in the history of the nation.
“CHANGED” to depression.