[kryogen1c]

I've always heard market forces and policies dont take effect until the following presidency.

[lostlogin]

The top comment has a graph. If you ignore single term presidents, the pattern remains the same.

[isthatafact]

That seems like sarcasm because it is an overused excuse that republicans give for the bad usa economies under republican presidents.

I never once heard a reasonable explanation why policies only start to have an effect at the end of a year that is divisible by 4 or 8. It makes no sense if you think it through.