Earlier this month, President Obama was invited to write a guest column for The Economist on ?The Way Ahead: Unfinished Business in Economic Policy.?

In his essay, the president said he is happy with his economic policies, especially leading America out of the Great Recession. He claims, ?Wages have risen faster in real terms during this business cycle than in any since the 1970s.? I?ve yet to find an economist who agrees with that statement.

Even if it is true, I?m not sure Obama had much to do with it. The fact is that the Federal Reserve did more to get us out of the slump than any fiscal policy to come out of Washington in the last eight years. Obama raised taxes and increased stifling regulations (Obamacare and Dodd-Frank) during his years in office. ?We don?t begrudge success,? he wrote, but his policies have taxed and strangled successful entrepreneurs.