mmmmno. Wrong. The Federal Reserve (through it's ZIRP policy and quantitative easing stimulus programs) created the "fertile ground" that "saved" the economy (although it didn't actually "save" the economy, only goosed the stock markets and deferred the inevitable day of reckoning when interest rates must (but cannot) rise) Obama simply signed-off on the TARP bailout and the Federal Reserves unprecedented actions. He didn't come up with them. If you even followed his campaign when he was first elected, you would have known that Obama spent most of his transition time meeting with the Bush administration and following their guidance on how to address the economic crisis. He wasn't think-tanking how to fix the economy, he was being briefed on how the Fed and gov't would address the crash. He didn't make his first appointment for several weeks (way behind the pace set by Trump)