No Joe, there was no economic boom under Obama

Published October 9, 2020 3:00am ET



The great Jackie Gleason once said, “The past remembers better than it lived.” And so it is, apparently, with the Obama years.

There was no economic “boom” as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are misremembering. This was an economy that skidded into a financial ditch and seemingly ever pulled out of it and got back on the prosperity hot lanes until Donald Trump won the election in November 2016.

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