I have to admit that trump has changed my mind in how much influence a president could have on the economy--- he has demonstrated a much greater influence than I would have expected. He will do everything he can to put off a recession before the next election--we will see how it turns out.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis