{"id":129,"date":"2010-04-06T19:16:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/04\/06\/obama-and-the-stock-market-a-year-later\/"},"modified":"2010-04-06T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T23:16:09","slug":"obama-and-the-stock-market-a-year-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/04\/06\/obama-and-the-stock-market-a-year-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama and the Stock Market:  A Year Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually it\u2019s more than&#160; a year, but let\u2019s look back.&#160; You\u2019ll recall that, after the inauguration ball balloons deflated, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealthcommonsense.com\/2009\/06\/obama-and-the-stock-market.html\" target=\"_blank\">Republicans started to blame the stock market collapse on Obama<\/a>, or at the very least, they pointed to the stock market as proof that American business did not believe in Obama\u2019s politics.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greggcountygop.com\/2009\/03\/04\/dow-jones-responds-to-obamanomics\/\" target=\"_blank\">They pointed<\/a> to the Dow, as of March 3 of last year, being down 30% since Obama\u2019s election and 15% since Obama\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>So where are we today, 17 months after the president\u2019s election and not quite 15 months after his inauguration:<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><strong>Since his election, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 14%.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><strong>Since his inauguration, the DJIA is up 38%.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>So why isn\u2019t the GOP giving him credit now?<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to the \u201cEd Show\u201d on MSNBC for reminding me of this.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually it\u2019s more than&#160; a year, but let\u2019s look back.&#160; You\u2019ll recall that, after the inauguration ball balloons deflated, the Republicans started to blame the stock market collapse on Obama, or at the very least, they pointed to the stock market as proof that American business did not believe in Obama\u2019s politics.&#160; They pointed to&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/04\/06\/obama-and-the-stock-market-a-year-later\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,12,14,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}