### Comment:
You gave a false question, they could have (in theory) lowered them to zero or below zero. You want to lay all the success of Obama's presidency on interest rates but that would not be correct.

### REPLY:
I don’t want to lay all of his success to interest rates. I’m saying that his low interest rate environment during the last two years or so of his presidency definitely helped his numbers. They were zero for way to long. If you would have seen 1-2 rate hikes each year starting in 2015, you would have seen his economic numbers plateau or possibly even regress a bit like were seeing/worrying about now.

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