Nevertheless, economic performance continues to heavily influence how people choose to vote. If the economy does well, an incumbent president has a much better chance of being re-elected.

As the nation prepares for the upcoming election, Yahoo Finance's Rick Newman examines the economy's performance under current President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump. Newman ...

The U.S. economy is a massive aggregation of moving parts, ... (DJIA) under each president since Charles Henry Dow began publishing his index in 1885. We measured the adjusted closing values ...

The U.S. economy grew at a similar above-average speed during the first three years of Trump’s first term as president. COVID-19, formally labeled a pandemic in March of the election year 2020 ...

Responding to the failures of Enron and Worldcom within six months of each other, failures that didn’t spook the markets much at all, President George W. Bush zestily signed into law Sarbanes-Ox ...

Consumer confidence plummeted in February, indicating worry about the direction of the U.S. economy under President Donald Trump. A gauge of consumer confidence registered its largest monthly drop ...

The economy is big, complex and difficult for most people to understand. In reality, the president may not have as much control over the economy as people tend to think -- the Federal Reserve, for ...

The economy is big, complex and difficult for most people to understand. In reality, the president may not have as much control over the economy as people tend to think -- the Federal Reserve, for ...

In reality, the president may not have as much control over the economy as people tend to think — the Federal Reserve, for instance, has a much more direct influence over how well the economy does.

From LBJ to Biden: How the Economy Performed Under Each President. Bob Haegele. February 22, ... If the economy does well, an incumbent president has a much better chance of being reelected.