by This chart caught my fancy after reading the interview with Rep. Tom Cole from the previous post. There is still the tendency to see the stock market (or GDP) as a proxy for the economy. And it is a time honored tradition for politicians to claim credit for economic gain in convoluted story telling: (I could not find the attribution for this graph but will add when I find it) Trump bump versus Obama effect on the stock market for the first nine months in office of each president. See also Tax cut plan economics
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This chart caught my fancy after reading the interview with Rep. Tom Cole from the previous post. There is still the tendency to see the stock market (or GDP) as a proxy for the economy. And it is a time honored tradition for politicians to claim credit for economic gain in convoluted story telling:
(I could not find the attribution for this graph but will add when I find it)
Trump bump versus Obama effect on the stock market for the first nine months in office of each president. See also Tax cut plan economics