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From Reagan to Trump: How stocks performed under each (Original Post) nmgaucho Aug 2019 OP
Wow, that was a slanted article! Cartoonist Aug 2019 #1
Actually it was pretty balanced except for louis-t Aug 2019 #2
This bothered me Cartoonist Aug 2019 #4
The chart tells the story. Clinton and Obama outshown all the repugs dramatically... brush Aug 2019 #3

Cartoonist

(7,309 posts)
1. Wow, that was a slanted article!
Tue Aug 13, 2019, 05:21 PM
Aug 2019

The poor performance of the GOP was never blamed on their presidents. The success of Clinton and Obama was never credited to them.

Cartoonist

(7,309 posts)
4. This bothered me
Tue Aug 13, 2019, 05:48 PM
Aug 2019
During Clinton’s eight years in the White House. Inflation remained stable. Unemployment dipped below 4%. And the United States enjoyed the longest period of uninterrupted economic growth in modern history.
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Absolutely NO mention of Clinton's economic package was mentioned. Neither was the fact that not a single republican voted for it. Nor was the fact that they all said it would destroy the economy.
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The era was punctuated by the dotcom boom, which amounted to the creation of an entirely new industry. The Nasdaq spiked sevenfold between 1993 and its peak in early 2000. The mania created vast amounts of wealth — much of which would disappear as the bubble inevitably popped.

Bush inherited the dotcom bust, which spawned the 2001 recession.

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Who said it was inevitable? If he means it was inevitable because the GOP was now in charge, then I can agree. But he didn't say that. Instead he seemed to imply that Clinton handed him a recession instead of a booming economy.

brush

(53,741 posts)
3. The chart tells the story. Clinton and Obama outshown all the repugs dramatically...
Tue Aug 13, 2019, 05:45 PM
Aug 2019

And Obama did it starting out in the dumps W Bush created. trump is second to last and he brags incessantly about how great his economy is.

Dems should plaster these chart figures all over everywhere.

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