It's Pretty (0.00 / 0)

What a nice looking chart -- with the colors and the nice straight lines and with the Democrats looking like totally golden, man.

What the hell is the source? Do we just post unsourced charts to the internets now? Who is this chart supposed to impress?

But the colors are nice -- like totally nice.

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by: ergotist @ Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 04:38:32 AM UTC

Whatever the source (0.00 / 0)

Correlation does not equal causal relationship.  

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by: Bitey @ Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 04:59:30 AM UTC

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But it doesn't discount it either. (4.00 / 1)

Increases in income inequality also correlate in an intriguing manner with Republican presidents.  A discussion can be found at economistsview.

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by: Reframing the Debate @ Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 05:26:16 AM UTC

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For more correlations (0.00 / 0)

between economic factors and political business cycles, try here.  Real GDP also correlates.

Paul Krugman has posted a similar chart to the one shown above before.

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by: Reframing the Debate @ Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 05:40:05 AM UTC

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It's easy to see why. (4.00 / 1)

Adam Smith knew the answer -- only labor can create wealth.

When Democrats are in charge, they invest in labor by improving health, education etc. When Republicans are in charge they squander everything on the most non-productive sector of the economy -- themselves.

Montani semper liberi

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by: Sadie Baker @ Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 11:23:48 AM UTC

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true (4.00 / 1)

But if one wants to claim Republicans are better at handling the economy, the onus is on them to explain this discrepancy.  The worst post-depression Democratic administration has a better record than the average Republican one.  

It's pretty striking and shrinkingly likely to be unrelated.

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by: Daniel De Groot @ Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 14:31:59 PM UTC

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try clicking the link (0.00 / 0)

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by: Daniel De Groot @ Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 14:26:02 PM UTC

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I Did (0.00 / 0)

The link points to a page which posts the same chart, also completely unsourced.

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by: ergotist @ Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 16:01:43 PM UTC

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by: timothy moriarty @ Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 07:19:20 AM UTC

MasterBlaster runs Bartertown. (4.00 / 2)

Sorry. Just had to finish it. A compulsion.

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by: jcr @ Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 08:19:45 AM UTC