As of Inauguration Day, gas was at $2.67 (except, of course in California, where it is always at least a dollar more). Interest rates were 2.25% for a 30-year mortgage. The Stock Market closed at 30,829.40 (in spite of a 10-month lockdown). Our GDP growth for the third quarter was 33.1%.
We have not had any new wars or conflicts in the past four years and we were drawing down in Afghanistan. North Korea has not been testing any new missiles and ISIS is a distant memory.
The Housing market is the strongest itâs been in years. And let us not forget the peace deals in the Middle East that the past eight or nine presidents had failed to bring about.