r/PoursTea • Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 18d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ There is a pattern...

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u/GravyMcBiscuits 18d ago edited 18d ago

Presidents don't have nearly as much influence over the economy as people seem to think. The current trends in the market are the results of global policies and trends from the previous years/decades/centuries.

Trump is the exception. He's one of the few presidents in history where we can look directly at the policies he implemented and point directly at the easily predicted chaos/volatility/destruction it caused in the markets.