Trump & GOP promised economic growth much better than Obama.That's not what happened

[Mike M (the other one)]

(03-01-2019, 12:02 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: But why 21 months!?



Edit: Just saw your edit after I posted this. While comparing economic performance under presidents to operationalize presidential performance is a fool's errand, using any period that includes different quarters would be extra so. Final 21 months for Obama would have been April 2015 through December 2016, while Trump's first 21 would be January 2017 through September 2018. Different economic quarters bring with them different trends, which means comparing those two data sets would not work out as they are too dissimilar.

All in all, it's stupid to look at these things in general. Presidents are stupid for making promises, and they are stupid for touting good numbers. The population is stupid for putting so much stock in economic numbers as an indicator of what a president is doing.

21 Months before Trump took office is a good time frame to see how everything was trending while under Obama, once it was announced that Trump was POTUS, the stock market and the businesses were confident again in the future and starting growing again, up to that point they were stagnant.

It is impossible to do a type of comparison that you are requesting of the exact same quarters, so why are you making it a point to discuss that?

Besides if Hillary had won, we would be hearing all about how great she is for the Economy.