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Obama Beating Bush on Post-Recession Jobs Recovery

By caheidelberger on 2014.12.10

Kevin Drum produces a remarkable chart that shows President Barack Obama's clear superiority to his predecessor in helping the economy recover from recession: Count private employment as a percentage of the labor force, and you see that in five and…

Obama Beats Bushes on Private-Sector Job Growth; Public Sector Shrinks

By caheidelberger on 2013.12.14

Calculated Risk offers two instructive charts on private-sector and public-sector job growth under the last five presidents. First, the private sector: So far, the economy has created more private-sector jobs under President Barack Obama (dark blue line) than it did…

Rising Food Prices: Blame Obama, Drought, or GOP Thinking?

By caheidelberger on 2012.08.19

...or get a statistical grip? The GOP unleashed an attack on President Obama recently arguing that since grocery prices have gone up 14.5% since Obama took office, folks should vote for someone else. Never mind that, with 24 meat items…

After 13 Quarters, Obama Recovery Slightly Better than Bush’s

By caheidelberger on 2012.08.01

Menzie Chinn charts non-defense GDP growth during the first full 13 quarters of the Obama Administration (red line) and compares that to non-defense GDP growth under Bush 2 Term 1 (blue line): 4.2% improvement for Obama, versus 4.0% for Bush…

Obama Shrinks Government Payrolls; Bush Expanded Them

By caheidelberger on 2012.04.23

Mitt Romney's trip last week to the Ohio drywall factory that closed during the Bush Administration speaks volumes about the GOP's disconnect from economic reality. Romney and the Tea Party (there's an odd couple) need you to believe that President…

2009 Stimulus Not So Massive Compared to Bush Tax Cuts and Iraq

By caheidelberger on 2012.03.08

When our attention turns fully to the Congressional and Presidential elections here in South Dakota, I'm sure we'll hear Kristi Noem and the Romney surrogates decrying all the money President Obama and we dastardly Democrats wasted on the American Recovery…

Yes We Can Blame Bush for Deficit

By caheidelberger on 2011.07.26

President George W. Bush referred to his 2001 tax cuts as a "fiscal straitjacket for Congress." Alas, he never forced them to put it on. As President Barack Obama said last night, the Bush Administration and Congress put two wars…