The burden of proof is squarely on whoever says the president caused the good times. I could as well say that Mike Pence did it, since his term was the same. O

The burden of proof is squarely on whoever says the president caused the good times. I could as well say that Mike Pence did it, since his term was the same. Or Pelosi as the leader of the House. There's no way around it, claiming the president has something to do with causing a good economy requires a statistical argument along the lines of "it must be him because this line informs that one and these plausible alternatives don't". That's my one liner summary but of course there are books about causality. My guess is that there's not much you can do as president to improve the economy, or someone would have done it. There are lots of things you can do to derail it, which people from time to time because they're naive about how it works.