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Wrong bored

Presidents have very little impact on the economy and next to no impact on the stock market.

Timing is everything. The stock market was incredible during the Clinton years but that’s only because we had one of the the biggest tech booms of all time. Bill Gates has infinitely more impact on that economy than Bill Clinton did.

The tech bubble burst under Bush but that wasn’t my his fault. We had a good recovery after that. I remember Fox host getting really frustrated in 2006 because the media was sufficiently praising the “Bush Boom.” Those cries went silent when the housing bubble burst and again that wasn’t Bush’s fault.

Obama got lucky in that he came into office on the tail end of one of the worst recessions of all time and thus his economic and stock market record looks good.

Trump took over a good economy and happily took credit for trends that were already in place. I always thought it was dumb of him to constantly tout “his” stock market and economy numbers cuz that shit can turn on a dime and as we’ve seen that’s exactly what happened. None of this was his fault just as none what what we say before the pandemic had anything to do with him.

The economy and stock market are too big and too complex for one man to have much of an impact.

Rubberfist said:

Sledog said:

Hosing debacle was all on the dems for laws requiring the loaning unlimited funds to people who couldn't/wouldn't pay it back.

That’s not even close to what happened but not shocking that you’d be horribly misinformed.

Feel to give your version and inform the class.

"The economy and stock market are too big and too complex for one man to have much of an impact."

But not too big and complex for a US Congress and a President to have an impact. Increase taxes on private sector activity and you get less private sector activity. Subsidize sloth and you get more sloth. Import cheap foreign labor and you get lower wages for citizens. Basic econ 101.