Trump benefits from Obama's policies by reversing them.
Giving Obama credit to me is at the very least questionable - things were at rock bottom, they could almost only go up (and I supported Obama). There are so few absolutes to hold on to in terms of economic indicators for the layperson, but its hard to see how the Obama years were an economic catastrophe, and unfortunately we'll never know what the effect of a larger stimulus might have been (or no stimulus for that matter).
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-political-bra...
[1] - https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-4/people-who-are-not-in-...
In the meantime, politifact has a good breakdown of what he says about the issue and where the numbers come from (spoiler, they make some wild assumptions) [1].
[1] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/sep/...
Schrodinger's Obama Policies?
Even outside the market, people are hiring again, companies are making investments, it's a hell of a turn around.
- The United States added almost 3 million jobs in 2014, 2.7 million in 2015 and 2.2 million in 2016.
- The U.S. economy added 2 million jobs in 2017
http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/05/news/economy/december-2017-j...
What's your point?
> then immediately jumping, once the election results were in.
So your long-term retirement investment fund which should span over 20+ years increased somewhat drastically over a small percentage of it's perceived lifetime. Why is that superbly beneficial for long term fund performance?
> Even outside the market, people are hiring again
When did they stop hiring? Source data?
You must be a terrible investor then, the DOW under Obama went from ~7,000 to 18,000, unemployment fell from 10% to 5%, nearly 20 million gained healthcare under the ACA, and the economy gained 11.6 million jobs. Obama's numbers blow Trump's away.