" I realize that as a socialist wannabe, that you only look at past and current. That's why the government is so bad with their numbers, they do not know how to look forward. "
and I am sure that CEO man understands trends as well, in that they don't turn on a dime.
As a matter of fact one can transform trends to data while "confidence" and "expectations" have never been know to feed the bulldog.
Another fact is "confidence and expectations" are more likely to be formed using trends rather than abstract concepts like "confidence and expectation" out of the blue
The point many here are trying to make is Trump inherited a trend.
Perhaps should he last in office he will institute policies that will enrich those trends. Maybe not.
Time will tell
This to chew on:
http://money.cnn.com/gallery/news/economy/2017/01/06/obama-economy-10-charts-final/index.html
However, labor force participation (a fancy way of referring to the percentage of working U.S. adults) is at its lowest level since the late 1970s. The main reason is that Baby Boomers are retiring, combined with a segment of the population who stopped looking for work because they can't find anything.
Even with the unemployment numbers down Trump still mentioned this is the real number to worry about.