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Originally Posted by knucklesplitter
Past performance is no guarantee of future results, but...
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Linking economic performance to presidencies is shaky, in a global marketplace the performance of the internal US economy should be dependent upon policies regulated by the Congress. Response times are also an issue.
It can also be argued heavily that the behaviors of various long-term economic stats respond much faster to international events (such as war) than to a single president's policies within his administration timeframe. Different actions and events carry with them various time-lags.
Calculation of such things as the national debt and GDP is very tricky these days......