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Cannonpointer » 21 Oct 2017 3:09 pm » wrote: That looks like Carter kept up with the average, son. Haven't you always lied that he was the worst president on the economy?

Why are you a liar?

Why aren't you showing the source of these claims? Ashamed?

As I noted, Carter inherited a moderately healthy economy from Ford.

Thanks to Carter's incompetence, the Misery Index rose by more than any president since WWII other than the economically incompetent Nixon.

12% inflation and rising as he left office.

The worst income losses in recorded US history.

18% or so Prime Rate.
Collapsing business and consumer confidence.

That's what a psychotic claims is success.

And it got much worse after he left office, that Reagan had to overcome.

Gerald Ford 1974–1976 16.00 12.66 – Dec 1976 19.90 – Jan 1975 16.36 12.66 -3.70
Jimmy Carter 1977–1980 16.26 12.60 – Apr 1978 21.98 – Jun 1980 12.72 19.72 +7.00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery_index_(economics)