The Tide and the Gate: The President, the Party, and the Growth Gap
The question arrives every election season, and it usually arrives as a taunt: which party is better for the economy? For seventy years the honest answer has been that the data seem to favor one side, and the argument has therefore been about whether the data mean anything. That argument deserves care, because the strongest evidence for the claim and the strongest reasons to doubt it come from the same study, and that study’s own conclusion is not the one either side quotes. ...