I think that Obama has been very successful in handling the economy of the US of A. It is going exactly the way he has planned (along with his Fellow Traveler friends/mentors) for it to go.
I am amazed and rather chagrined at the naivete of his critics and/or commentators who believe or state that he's a smart guy who's just out of his depth due to inexperience.
"Can't see the forest for the trees" is a demonstrably adequate comment about those commentators/critics.