Guess Which President Has Been Best for Stocks?

[Cigar]

The U.S. economy may not be recovering as fast as President Obama likes, but at least he can make one claim: The stock market has done better under his watch than with any other recent president.

Since Obama's inauguration on Jan. 20 2009, all three major U.S. stock indexes are up more than 60 percent. The Nasdaq Composite [.NCOMP 3134.12 http://media.cnbc.com/i/CNBC/CNBC_Images/componentbacks/watchlist_down.gif -1.69 (-0.05%) http://media.cnbc.com/i/CNBC/CNBC_Images/backgrounds/realtime_icon.gif] (http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/.ncomp) alone has soared a whopping 105 percent.

Barack Obama............... +68%
Bill Clinton...................... +51%
George HW Bush............ +45%
Ronald Reagan............... +23%
Jimmy Carter................. +20%
George W Bush.............. -17%

http://www.cnbc.com/id/48940520

[Mainecoons]

The U.S. economy isn't recovering at all, really, and the stock market is nothing more than a reflection of the money printing. If you were better educated you'd know this, it has certainly been written about a great deal in the financial press.

[Spookycolt]

This is similar to someone dying of cancer being happy that they have no cavities.

Kind of irrelevant to the overall picture.

[Chris]

The U.S. economy may not be recovering as fast as President Obama likes, but at least he can make one claim: The stock market has done better under his watch than with any other recent president.

Since Obama's inauguration on Jan. 20 2009, all three major U.S. stock indexes are up more than 60 percent. The Nasdaq Composite [.NCOMP 3134.12 http://media.cnbc.com/i/CNBC/CNBC_Images/componentbacks/watchlist_down.gif -1.69 (-0.05%) http://media.cnbc.com/i/CNBC/CNBC_Images/backgrounds/realtime_icon.gif] (http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/.ncomp) alone has soared a whopping 105 percent.

Barack Obama............... +68%
Bill Clinton...................... +51%
George HW Bush............ +45%
Ronald Reagan............... +23%
Jimmy Carter................. +20%
George W Bush.............. -17%

http://www.cnbc.com/id/48940520

This answers my earlier thread, Occupy vs DNC: Are Dems Crony Capitalists? (http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/5663-Occupy-vs-DNC-Are-Dems-Crony-Capitalists), with a resounding yes.

[keymanjim]

Skipped point "a" again, didn't you?

[Mainecoons]

GUESS WHAT PRESIDENT HAS THE MALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION RATE AT ITS LOWEST POINT SINCE 1948?



Are you better off? Just 96,000 jobs added in August as 368,000 people LEAVE the workforce in bleak employment report dealing blow to Obama re-election hopes


Lowest workforce participation rate since September 1981
Jobless rate drops to 8.1 per cent but only because workforce shrinks
President Barack Obama knew of figures before big speech

By Toby Harnden In Charlotte, North Carolina (http://thepoliticalforums.com/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Toby+Harnden+In+Charlotte,+North+Carol ina)
PUBLISHED:13:07 GMT, 7 September 2012| UPDATED:18:30 GMT, 7 September 2012

Just 96,000 American jobs were added in August in a bleak monthly jobs report as 368,000 left the workforce, bringing labour market participation down to its lowest level for 31 years and dealing a blow to President Barack Obama’s re-election chances.

The national unemployment rate dropped to 8.1 per cent, down from 8.2 per cent, but this was only because so many people gave up looking for work. If the participation rate had not dropped so precipitously, unemployment would have risen to 8.4 per cent.

Factory employment fell by the most in two years and temporary-help companies eliminated positions for the first time in five months. The 69.9 per cent labor force participation rate for men is at lowest level recorded since the US government began tracking it in 1948.

According to James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute, the unemployment rate would be 11.2 per cent if the labour force participation rate had remained what it was when Obama took office in January 2009. The U.S. Labour Department also said that 41,000 fewer jobs were created in June and July than previously reported.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199815/Obamas-DNC-2012-speech-Bleak-unemployment-numbers-morning-Obama-tells-DNC-problems-solved.html#ixzz25p5Snvxj
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199815/Obamas-DNC-2012-speech-Bleak-unemployment-numbers-morning-Obama-tells-DNC-problems-solved.html#ixzz25p5Snvxj)

Even the British Press has this one figured out.