War/Afghanistan/Iraq/National security are listed as the top issues by only 5% of Americans.
Economy Is Dominant Issue for Americans as Election Nears - Gallup.com
By The Library of Congress
According to an article in The Economist (Buttonwood):
The economy does better under the Democrats.
"Interestingly, when Mr Bartels looks at the real post-tax income growth of the poor... Their income increased by 1.56% a year under Democrats and declined by 0.32% a year under Republicans.
"The suits on the Street should be careful what they wish for."
The illusion of privacy in a limited hangout world
The 2012 US Presidential “Non-election”: Which Brand of “Fascism” this Time? By Larry Chin
"Since 1929 Republican presidents have had ten full terms in office.
"The average annual real price change in American equities over this period is slightly less than zero...
"The average real price gain in years of Democratic presidencies has been 7%...
"Republicans ... presided over the calamitous stockmarket declines of 1973-1974 and 2008...
The average inflation rate under Democrats has been... 3.5%, compared with 3% under Republicans...
By БРАТСТВО
"In his book Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, Larry Bartels calculates that between 1952 and 2004 the average annual real post-tax income gain for the rich was 1.37% when Democrats were in the White House and just 0.92% when Republicans were.
By БРАТСТВО
"In his book Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, Larry Bartels calculates that between 1952 and 2004 the average annual real post-tax income gain for the rich was 1.37% when Democrats were in the White House and just 0.92% when Republicans were.
"Interestingly, when Mr Bartels looks at the real post-tax income growth of the poor... Their income increased by 1.56% a year under Democrats and declined by 0.32% a year under Republicans.
"In other words, the gap between the rich and the rest grew substantially wider under Republican administrations...
"Economic policy is also set by the Federal Reserve.
"If there have been two moments in the past century when Fed policy has been most awry, it was probably in the early 1930s (when policy was too tight) and the mid-1970s (when it was too loose).
"Both periods coincided, initially at least, with Republicans in the White House...
"If ... Republicans were to win the presidency ... a combination of tighter fiscal and monetary policy would provide a tough environment for equity markets in 2013 and 2014.
"If ... Republicans were to win the presidency ... a combination of tighter fiscal and monetary policy would provide a tough environment for equity markets in 2013 and 2014.
The illusion of privacy in a limited hangout world
The 2012 US Presidential “Non-election”: Which Brand of “Fascism” this Time? By Larry Chin