Thursday, July 9, 2009

The Obama Market vs. The Presidential (4-year) Cycle

This doesn't have any predictive skill but I wanted to bookmark the chart. I never realized how flat the first twenty months of a term looked. From Kitco:

The typical pattern for the first five-plus months of a presidential term is mostly sideways as new administrations take shape and second-termers reshuffle people and set new priorities....MORE