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Related: About this forumThe Dollar Keeps Growing In Strength. Thanks, President Obama
Jon Favreau @jonfavsRepublican Predictions: $6 gas, 8% unemployment, global economic catastrophe
Reality: Absolutely none of that shit
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/01/01/3735483/4-things-that-were-supposed-to-happen-by-2016-because-obama-was-reelected/
3:34 PM - 1 Jan 2016
4 Things That Were Supposed To Happen By 2016 Because Obama Was Reelected
By Judd Legum @JuddLegum
A few years ago, prognosticators were very confident about what would happen to America by now because of Obama's reelection. Let's check in and see how their predictions turned out.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/01/01/3735483/4-things-that-were-supposed-to-happen-by-2016-because-obama-was-reelected/Here
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Ari Alstedter: Obama Dollar Rally Is Forecast to Join Clinton, Reagan Upturns
The dollar has an opportunity to make history. After three straight years of gains, strategists are forecasting the U.S. currency will be a world beater again in 2016, strengthening against seven of 10 developed-world peers by the end of the year, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey. That outlook is backed by the Federal Reserves stated intent to continue raising interest rates while peers in the rest of the world keep them flat or lower.
The rally that started during President Barack Obamas second term is poised to join a category defined by only the biggest, most durable periods of dollar strength since the currencys peg to gold ended in 1971. This is the third big dollar rally weve had, said Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy in New York at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. The Obama dollar rally, I think, is being fueled by the divergence in monetary policy. That comes after three straight years of gains for the U.S. Trade Weighted Real Broad Dollar Index, a monthly weighted average of the dollar against the currencies of its main trading partners compiled by the Fed back to 1973
More here http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-02/obama-dollar-rally-is-forecast-to-join-clinton-reagan-upturns
~ http://theobamadiary.com/2016/01/04/the-dollar-keeps-growing-in-strength-thanks-president-obama/
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The Dollar Keeps Growing In Strength. Thanks, President Obama (Original Post)
sheshe2
Jan 2016
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Kath1
(4,309 posts)1. We were right all along!
After the Bush disaster, it is amazing the way the economy has come back!
Cha
(305,721 posts)2. Thank you, she, for this reality post on President Obama and Our Dollar!
Booom!
He has been doing it all along. Sadly he never gets credit for it.
Cha
(305,721 posts)4. Yes, President Obama has been doing an excellent job all along.. check out the sources
of the ones who don't appreciate him and it's laughable.
The corporate US gopropaganda machine/media and those who **** ** ***** **** & ******.
uh uh.. you won't find me saying what I want and falling into an alert trap.
MADem
(135,425 posts)5. I get out of the gas station for under twenty bucks most times I fill up!
Under Porgie it was much more expensive to fill the tank....