Franchise Update Magazine Issue III, 2016 | Page 77

2016 M U L T I - U N I T F R A N C H I S I N G C O N F E R E N C E

Darrell Johnson, FRANdata
year. And the Fed, he added, is “just about
out of tools and energy to stoke growth.”
Still, he said, it’s not as bad as the numbers might indicate. The year following a
presidential election tends to be a fairly
good one in the 4-year election cycle (no
matter who the president is). Pairing that
with consumer optimism about where the
economy will be in the next 24 months,
along with financial factors—such as low
interest