Is the us economy better when republicans or democrats control congress?

It's not really a meaningful question, since the effect of Congress on the economy is very slow. They set a very broad direction for the economy, but these things don't turn on a dime. It often takes a year for legislation to take effect, and even longer for it to affect economic productivity.(Though anticipation can cause people to move ahead of the changes.

) Any time there's a boom, the party in power will take credit, and the party of power will claim it was due to the policies they set up when they were last in power. In a crisis, it's the reverse: the party in power will blame it on the last time the others were in control, while the party out of power will claim it's all due to present mismanagement.In reality, it's always some of both, but it's impossible to measure precisely which effects really matter. Economists will give you models, but if you ask six economists you'll get nine opinions.

There's always an economist out there who will tell you that your views are right and everybody else is destroying the economy. Democrats controlled Congress during 1992-1994, the beginning of the dot-com boom. Republicans controlled Congress from 1994 to 2006, which included the rest of the boom, then the dot-com bust, then the real-estate boom, and the beginning of the real-estate bust.

The Democrats took over in 2006, and we've been in an economic bust ever since. Going back even further, Democrats controlled the House of Representatives continuously since 1955, during periods of both boom and bust. So there's just no direct correlation, no simple "these are the good guys and these are the bad guys".

Economics is hard, and the arguments about who is right will go on indefinitely.

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