It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt — Abraham Lincoln
https://www.nber.org/research/data/us-business-cycle-expansions-and-contractions
POTUS at start of American economic contraction:
April, 1960 Eisenhower- (R)
December, 1969 Richard Nixon- (R)
November 1973 Richard Nixon- (R)
January 1980 is the exeption, Jimmy Carter
July 1981 Ronald Reagan - (R)
July 1990 Georga H W Bush- (R)
March 2001 George W Bush- (R)
December 2007 George W Bush - (R)
February 2020 Donald J Trump- (R)
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