The Bush Boom

THE BUSH BOOM….The Bush expansion is over, and Brad DeLong describes it as “the first business cycle during which median household income in America falls from peak to peak.” And indeed it is.

The closest we’ve come to such a dismal recovery in the postwar era was the dreaded stagflation-driven economic expansion of Jimmy Carter’s presidency. You remember Carter, don’t you? The president vilified by Republicans for decades as almost single-handedly responsible for destroying the American economy.


And yet, somehow we’re still supposed to believe that Republicans know how to manage economic growth? Can someone please explain this to me?