Economic Setbacks That Define the Bush Years (chart)

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IT was a time of low inflation — the lowest overall rate for any president since John F. Kennedy.

Other than that, the economic record of President George W. Bush was largely a disappointing one. During his administration, the country grew at the slowest overall pace of any recent president, whether measured in gross domestic product or employment. The last president to preside while the stock market did worse was Herbert Hoover.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/business/24charts.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss

The fundamentals is strong. Actually they goes straight down the intertubes............

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1. low inflation?

the cost of everything I need to live (food, gasoline, utilities)--I don't buy anything I don't need anymore--skyrocketed during the last 8 years, especially the last 4.

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2. but golly, your new computer is so much faster.

so it all balances out. right? RIGHT?

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3. I *wish* I had a new computer...

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