True or not and I have my doubts why are these shifts in economic output are a product of one party or the other.*   Should we be seing a National interest in reducting the deficit and not a Partisan deficit or surplus.   One nation......

*Market dives at the end of the last two presidents, Clinton and Bush- coincidence?   It's a small sample, but not hard to think intuitively: Both Presidents cranked up the stock market during their term and the price paid was left to the next guy(or woman).   

In both cases you had rapid increases in wealth to carry through the second election, followed by the massive failures that were the result of grossly inflated valuations in key industries, tech and housing.  In both cases it was highly speculative money, (people with tons of discretionary money) that profited during the upturn.  Of course the banks and associated investment houses earned tidy profits on the rapidly increasing volumn of trades.  * Please read about superfast trades