Économie américaine: l'oeuvre de Trump ou celle d'Obama

Obama s'est rappelé au bon souvenir des lecteurs américains lors de son récent passage en Californie. Que ce soit l'actuel président ou son prédécesseur, les présidents américains s'attribuent généralement une trop grande part du mérite.

 "Moreover, even the faster growth under Mr. Obama or Mr. Trump remains modest compared with some previous recoveries. During the first half of this year, the economy grew at a 3.3 percent annualized pace, slower than every year of the Reagan recovery, which averaged 4.4 percent between 1983 and 1989.

Mr. Trump has some particularly compelling bragging points, though. Unemployment is now at 3.9 percent, close to the lowest it has been in a half-century, and joblessness among African-Americans and other minorities has also fallen to historically low rates. The stock markets have reached record highs as well. All of these trends began when Mr. Obama was president. Mr. Trump’s supporters argue that he turbocharged them with his tax cuts and deregulation, defying critics’ predictions that he would wreck the economy."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/us/politics/trump-obama-economy.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage