Reagan is still trouncing Obama on economic growth
By mid-2013, it was already abundantly clear that President Barack Obama's economic growth record was trailing well behind that of former President Ronald Reagan. But in September 2014, some at Forbes were attempting to characterize economic history in favor of Obama, although this was easily rebutted.
With the recent quarterly release of economic data from the Federal Reserve, the disparity between these two presidents has grown even more clear.
Over equivalent time frames, Reagan grew real per capita GDP 106% faster than Obama. By this time in his presidency, Reagan's performance on real per capita disposable personal income was 157% better than Obama's.
Far from seeing any late-term acceleration in economic growth under President Obama, the American economy continues to sputter at one of the lowest growth rates in modern U.S. history.
For much of Obama's time in office, his supporters pointed to the better performance of the stock markets compared to Reagan. However, in recent months this lead has evaporated.
Reagan and Obama are now effectively tied for how the Dow Jones performed under their respective presidencies, and Obama's lead on the S&P 500 is rapidly declining. The markets have clearly peaked in recent months under Obama in a pattern that suggests a longer-term structural correction is in play.
Unless a recovery is in order, Obama looks destined to lose one -- or both -- of these market indicators to Reagan as well before next January, which would make it nearly a clean economic sweep for Reagan.

Ad Free / Commenting Login
FOLLOW US ON
Recent Articles
- The Slush Fund Nobody Voted For
- Hacktivism and the Possibility of WW III
- Illegals Working for Congress?
- Should FBI Agents Learn Martial Arts?
- Deep-State Sabotage in the DoD?
- What DOGE Is Accomplishing
- From Churchill to Vance...Sounding Off About Tyranny
- Globalist Games: They Play, We Pay
- Scorched-Earth Disease Control
- NATO, Ukraine, and the War Hawks’ Pixie Dust Playbook
Blog Posts
- Hunter Biden hotfoots it to a luxury vacation in South Africa, seemingly to avoid a deposition on his claimed poverty
- The Obamas' podcast bombs
- Did Stacey Abrams’s NGO really get $2 billion for appliances to hand out to Americans?
- Mark Kelly exposes the hypocrisy behind the Democrats’ electric vehicle fixation
- Washington state attorney general is mad at sheriff's office for complying with federal law
- Can Trump and the team really win?
- The Democrat party is in dire need of shock therapy in the form of hard truths
- CNN wants you to know that Biden did not strand the astronauts Musk is rescuing
- Could Rahm Emanuel be the Democrats' great hope for 2028?
- The South African ambassador’s fate shows that America will no longer be bullied
- Nvidia: The Vera and Fritz chips
- A track attack
- Dem violence and manhood
- Ending the Fed
- Hey Chuck, you need a tune-up