Evaluate the economic policies of two past American presidents and their impact on the economy.
reagan was an idiot that actually made things worse, not better. 
Carter had solved it by hiring Paul Volker and then having him increase interest rates quickly, WHILE CARTER WAS President. 
THis was combined with Carter deregulating the airlines AND oil, all of which creating the massive increase in our economy. reagan came in, cut taxes and then had to re-raise them on the middle class ( not him and his friends). After that, he ran a MASSIVE deficit spending ignoring the fact that all of the presidents before him had dropped the deficits each year. In fact, reagan and W are the only 2 presidents in our history to massively increase deficit spending during peace times ( W started his deficit increases prior to 9/11 and then only added to it afterwards ).