The administration should be careful because if you live by temporary numbers, you ’ll die by temporary numbers, president Trump and Republicans should n’t rest on their laurels before they get things done. Salim Furth More Quotes by Salim Furth More Quotes From Salim Furth Policy matters, not personality, and President Trump has n’t been in office long enough to see real results in slow-moving markets like the job market, there is an effect where a policy has an impact before it is enacted because of the anticipation -- but I ’m looking for policies to have an impact, and go across the finish line -- not just a glitz of the first 100 days. Salim Furth us This is not just a President Trump phenomenon, job numbers come out and this is a perennial, it’s my job as an economist to say, well, let’s not read too much into it. Salim Furth us