Originally Posted by Rochard

You are trying to say the economy was great, but it was the housing market that crashed and caused "instant wealth". Well, yes. We know exactly what caused the housing market. The years 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 were my best years too.... But no matter what, the economy crashed. What caused it was the housing market.

I understand what happened. I understood exactly what happened.

What I don't understand is when our unemployment started off at 12% and dropped to 4%, people were talking about how bad things are. We had 76 six months of continued growth but things were bad, and now we have a new President and on the 77th month everything is magically fixed?

Drumpf has not done a damn thing to the economy. Not. One. Damn. Thing.

Nothing at all has changed. This is the same exact pattern we've been seeing for years. But people like Baddog are like "Wow, the numbers are great". It's exactly the same numbers we saw in November but suddenly these numbers are great.

Where are all of the GFYers that want to argue about the "real unemployment rate"? LOL.

Here is my point Robbie.... We had a 4.6% unemployment rate at the end of Obama's term, but people said "Oh the economy is horrible". We have a 4.6% unemployment rate the first month of Trump's term and people are like "Oh my, Trump is going good". Nothing changed. Nothing at all changed. We are still running on Obama'a rule - the budgets and plans passed under Obama. This will continue for the next year too. Let's see what happens when Trump puts a new budget in place. Let's see where we stand two or four years from now.