I think it's important as we assess a new presidency that we very much hope will be successful not to lose our perspective on certain things, especially when that means we might forget about the real goals we have to be shooting for.
Apparently we'll get an official announcement pretty soon that second quarter economic growth will come in at 2.6 percent. That's considerably better than the average of just under 2.0 percent that we saw throughout the Obama presidency, and it's way better than the first quarter figure of 1.2 percent, which you might reasonably call the last Obama quarter since he was president when it started and none of Trump's economic policies were in effect by the end of March.
