Reagan flashback. 20 million new jobs were created. Unemployment fell to 5.3% by 1989. The top income tax rate was cut from 70% to 28%. The Reagan Recovery took off once the tax rate cuts were fully phased in. Total federal spending declined to 21.2% of GDP in 1989 (even with the Reagan defense buildup, which won the Cold War.) Eliminated price controls on oil and natural gas. Production soared, and aided by a strong dollar the price of oil declined by more than 50%. Real per-capita disposable income increased by 18% from 1982 to 1989 (meaning the American standard of living increased by almost 20% in just 7 years.) The poverty rate declined every year from 1984 to 1989, dropping by one-sixth from its peak. The stock market more than tripled in value from 1980 to 1990 (a larger increase than in any previous decade.) The Reagan recovery started in official records in November 1982, and lasted 92 months without a recession until July 1990 (when the tax increases of the 1990 budget deal killed it.) During this 7-year recovery, the economy grew by almost one-third (equivalent of adding the entire economy of West Germany to the U.S. economy.) In 1984 alone real economic growth boomed by 6.8%, the highest in 50 years. The inflation from 1980 (in the Carter era) was reduced from 13.5% to 3.2% by 1983. (The contractionary, tight-money policies needed to kill this inflation inexorably created the steep recession of 1981 to 1982, which is why Reagan did not suffer politically catastrophic blame for that recession.) The Reagan Recovery kicked off a historic 25-year economic boom (with short recessions in 1990 and 2001.) The period from 1982 to 2007 is the greatest period of wealth creation in the history of the planet. In 1980, the net worth–assets minus liabilities–of all U.S. households and business was $25 trillion in today’s dollars. By 2007, net worth was just shy of $57 trillion. Adjusting for inflation, more wealth was created in America in the 25-year boom than in the previous two hundred years. Economic growth averaged 7.1% over the first 7 quarters. And I was 16 and Having The Time Of My Life...1987 Like I said, Im so glad I was 16 then and not now. cnsnews/mrctv-blog/eric-scheiner/reagan-flashback-checks-and-balances-limited-government-genius-our
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