[quote=XBoxBoy]Can we please stop with pretending the performance of stock markets is somehow correlated with presidential performance. 1) The presidents job is not to make stock markets go up. 2) The president has very little impact on the economy particularly in their first half year.[/quote]
Yes, thank you. Also 3) short-term stock market movements are driven entirely by sentiment and liquidity and have basically nothing to do with the long-term health of the economy.