Bulls, Bears and the Ballot Box: How the Performance of Our Presidents Has Impacted Your Wallet (Paperback) by Bob Deitrick, Lew Goldfarb

from CarolO

I am still trying to decide what I thought of this book. Despite the graphs, ratings system, and supporting evidence; this book reads like a political pamphlet and the authors are very upfront about whom they want you to vote for in the upcoming election. I know that statistics can be manipulated...

from suzzyque

I agree with the reviewer who noted that the e-book format makes this book a difficult one to read and understand. When the graphs are such that they take up two adjacent pages, but you can only see one at a time, it renders them virtually worthless as an illustration of the material the authors ...

from sherman1951

It's not that this book doesn't have something important to say; it does. Unfortunately it doesn't say it very well. The book purports to establish and rate presidents and the performance of certain economic factors: GDP growth, unemployment rate, personal income growth, corporate profits, fairne...

from kaulsu

First off: eBooks should NOT use PDF formats. The size of the fonts are fixed, and this book, at least, was very difficult to read...nearly impossible on my iPhone. I think this book was written as a trade book, but it read like a text book. Each chapter told you up front what was going to be rev...

from waltzmn

It's an intriguing notion: That the President has power over the economy, and that the party in power therefore can determine how well the economy will perform. Intriguing enough that Bob Deitrick and Lew Goldfarb decided to do a study of it after the 2008 financial disaster. This even though eco...