Name:   architect - Subject:   The evidence is there...dare to look it up MM! Date:   8/1/2015 11:01:34 AM (updated 8/1/2015 11:09:17 AM)

My research was at sources such as Forbes, Bloomberg, FT etc...not just Gov't stats.

The current overall recovery from the pre-recession high back to the same level has been the "longest" but not the weakest since the Great Depression...use a few brain cells people...the drop from high to low point of the Great Recession was also the steepest and deepest since the Depression.

Well duh, does it not make sense that the recovery from the low point to pre-recession level would take longer because it had further to go?

The jobs recovery started out very poorly but is now moving along at better than the pre-recession rate.  The stock market recovery has been better than average from the beginning of the recovery.  The corporate profits recovery have been much better than typical,  Average worker income has been disappointing but has been mitigated by almost non-existant overall inflation (have to wonder if the income recovery would be better if the corporate profits recovery had been spread around a bit...yeah yeah l know socialist/ marxist/communist blah, blah, blah)...sure, if the corporate profits had benn spread among the employees instead of the investors the m stock recovery might have been slowed.  Manufacturing growth has slowed now but in the early recovery had been impressive after years of retreat.  Bottom line it is a mixed bag but the current 5 1/2 year and counting recovery started slowly but has accelerated in the last 3 years and is now exceeding previous recoveries in some measures while lagging in others.

Now, I know you guys still think we are at best treading water and that all that is bad can be laid at Obama's door step.  Well, if that is so do you place the original collapse at George W's door step...after all it occured on his watch?  Isn't what's good for the goose good for the gander?  Actually no...Bush bears very little of the blame (congress maybe) for the recession and Obama deserves little of the blame or credit for the recovery.