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USA ... Changes in Payroll Jobs - 2008 to 2016 When President Obama took office in January 2009, the US economy was losing jobs at the rate of around 800 thousand a month. 6 months into Obama's administrtation the job situation started to improve and for the final 7 years of his administration there was positive employment growth every month ... the longest run of positive job growth in US history.

USA ... Industrial Production

USA ... Housing Starts

USA ... Retail Sales

USA ... Hotel Occupency Rates by month ... recent years 2007 to 2016 2015 and 2016 at the end of the Obama years are significantly higher than in 2007 at the end of the Bush years.

USA ... Weekly unemployment claims for period 1970 to 2018 This is a graph of the 4 week moving average for the January period each year from 1970 to 1918. There have been six periods when this indicator peaked: ... The oil shock of the early 1970s which caused industrial stress in 1974 and 1975 ... The end of the Carter administration in 1980 ... The beginning of Reagan's trickle down economics in 1982 and 1983 ... Economic malaise at the end of the Reagan era and need for President Bush (41) to tighten the economic situation ... A post Clinton recession in the early Bush (42) era peaking in 2002 ... A massive peak in 2008 and 2009 following the Bush era financial crisis

USA ... Consumer Sentiment ... from 1978 to 2016 The oil shock in the 1970s changed everything and eliminated one of the big low cost advantages of cheap energy available to US inustrial ooperations. President Reagan changed the perception of America's future, and consumer sentiment improved. In the end President George Bush (41) had to face reality of the underlying weakness of the Reagan economic strategy and consumer sentiment dropped. He lost the election, but had set the stage for better economic performance during President Clinton's administration. In the 1990s during President Clinton's administration, consumer sentiment was high ... but dropped during President Bush's administration as government spending on international military intervention soared and massive abuses in the financial sector came to light. By the time Present Obama took office, consumer sentiment was at a very low level improved very well during his administration even though he obtained zero assistance for the Republicans in Congress to manage anything! 2015 and 2016 at the end of the Obama years are significantly higher than in 2007 at the end of the Bush years.

The following material incorporated from Economic Performance

The following material from Economics

The following material from Economy

	Economic Trends ... New Economics Foundation / Frank Van Lerven NORTHERN ROCK: TEN YEARS ON ... WHY DEBT IS STILL THE ISSUE	Open file 13803
Source: World Bank	From 1960 to 2008, in the UK there was a drop in the amount of public debt as a % of GDP and an increase in the amount of private debt. This graph shows the way in which ordinary people have had to go into debt in order to improve, or perhaps just maintain, their standard of living. Rich people (and powerful oprganizations like banks and multinational organizations) have paid an inadequate amount of taxes and argued against public debt. There has been a massdive transfer of earned income from people who actually earned it to those that have been owners.

Source: Bank of England and ONS

In the UK between 2013 and 2016, there has a small amount of growth in income, but a much larger growth in debt.