How Obama Killed Economic Growth - And Why Trump May Be Even Worse! [Reason Podcast]

Summary: As Barack Obama leaves the White House, his supporters point to low unemployment rates and low inflation as proof that his economic policies were a smashing success that saved the United States from another great depression. Gene Epstein, columnist at Barron's and the author of Econospinning: How To Read Between the Lines when the Media Manipulate the Numbers, is having none of it. In a new Reason podcast, Epstein tells Nick Gillespie that Obama was terrible on economic policy and he doesn't think Donald Trump will be much better, either. Despite deregulatory gestures in some areas (such as energy policy and finance), Trump is full-square in favor of trade protectionism and keeping immigrants out of the country. Free trade and a growing population are essential to economic health.