Irrespective of the political persuasion in power what was the...

Irrespective of the political persuasion in power what was the economic buoyancy during that period? GFC was at the tail end.

Not many policy changes have an immediate effect, they tend to have an elastic effect (i.e stretch a rubber band and see what happens)

I remember some heady days in the equity markets when even a blind donkey could have made money, plenty of asses did.