While we’re being anxious, have I mentioned lately that I expect that we’ll enter a recession during Donald Trump’s term of office? I believe that would have happened regardless of who was elected president.
Officially, the economy has been in recovery since June 2009. In the 200 some-odd years of its existence the U. S. has never experienced ten years of economic expansion. We’re due.
What never went up, must go down?
It’s an interesting thought experiment.
It went up. It just didn’t go up as fast as it would have sans recession:
Use the slider to see the most recent years. You can’t repeal the business cycle.