https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/much-of-what-youve-heard-about-carter
.... the economic mess Carter inherited from Nixon and Ford and that Reagan basically coasted on policies set by Carter. From the appointment of Paul Volcker as Chair of the Fed who raised interest rates to bring inflation under control, to Carter being the Great Deregulator, not Reagan, to military policies against Russia which, again, Reagan merely followed as well as a growing economy. Reagan did hit a trillion in debt for the first time, so at least there's that.
