Quote:You guys are so selective in giving credit and casting blame.   Trump gets credit for the Dow going up a few hundred points, but Obama gets no credit for the Dow going up 13,000 points when he was President.   The Dow almost TRIPLED during the Obama administration.  

 

As with Trump, it wasn't hard given where it was when he started.

 

We would have been past 20k with 0bama had his policies been not so restrictive towards economic growth.

 

You seem to selectively leave out the fact 0bama had the lowest average GDP growth of any president since WWII, and second worst record on debt since 1953.

 

Companies cut jobs and got lean.  They properly reacted to economic conditions to stay alive.  Many sat on cash and stopped reinvestment, using less debt when they did invest.  Record employees dropped completely out of the workforce.

 

It's rising now because of hope for better growth under Trump policy.

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