Our Economy is perfect

'Perfect Trump economy': Peter Navarro says 'everything is hitting on all major cylinders, and the best is yet to come'

'It's probably one of the best years in modern American economic history.

Not hyperbole, that's what the data is telling us'

Appearing on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel, Peter Navarro, senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, highlighted economic successes in the first year of Trump taking the helm from the high-inflation era of Joe Biden.

"It's the perfect Trump economy in 2026. It's what we call the Goldilocks economy," said Navarro, alluding to conditions being just right from the children's story of that title.

"The last time we saw what we're seeing now was 1998. We're seeing the stock market over 50,000 Dow, that's Wall Street. But we're also seeing rising real wages. That's Main Street."

"This is happening because of tariffs not in spite of them."

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As an aside, Bill Clinton was President in 1998 and his administration oversaw a significant period of peacetime economic growth and the first federal budget surplus in decades. We were actually in the Black.