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Originally Posted by boxcar
JR beat me to it. But if you want to measure Obama with something meaningful, look at something other than your personal portfolio. Look at the Nation's "portfolio", e.g. debt, deficit, housing market, etc., etc.
Boxcar
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I'd also add that if you want to look at something besides your own portfolio look at the unemployment numbers. That is why I included S&P 500 returns as well as unemployment in my table.
I just read an article on Barrons that said 227,000 new jobs were added in February and claims this is good for the incumbent.
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB...d=yahoobarrons
With repect to housing, that free fall started around 2007 if memory serves me. The Obama admin stopped the bleeding. It takes time to heal the wound.
When a man falls off of a foot stool it takes a second to get back up. When a man falls down a flight of stairs it takes longer to get back up.
Housing fell down the stairs and will take longer to recover. As more people get back to work housing will improve. The corporate sector has benefitted from the rebound in the market. It takes time for the corporations to hire and then time for employees to put the money back into the economy.
Election is still months away. Will be interesting to see how the economy plays out.
