Originally Posted by
AltyPie
On the unemployment rate thing:
The fact that US unemployment has dropped by 15% in Trump’s first year might not be as good for him as it first seems, at least where media spin potential is concerned. The lowest unemployment rates in the OECD countries are at about 3% (Iceland, Japan). Even the German unemployment rate is 3.8% which seems to leave little scope for the US one to drop much more now it’s at only 4.1%.
Unemployment rates are like golf handicaps. You can get them down by large amounts from high numbers, but then it gets nearly impossible to go lower at very low numbers.
This comes back to how the media and his detractors will spin it if the unemployment rate is at, say, 4.5% in his last year (which would be lower than any rate under Obama). I’d expect most of the MSM narrative to then be “unemployment has risen 10% in the last 3 years of Trump’s first term” as opposed to “unemployment has remained at historically low figures throughout Trump’s first term and lower than any time under Obama”.