Today, some eight years after the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression, the nation’s economy is once again central to both parties’ appeal to voters. As American voters measure candidates based on how well off they feel and how confident they are about the future, CNBC.com analyzed the economic records of the last six presidents to better assess their performance. We looked at a variety of measures, calculating the net change from the start of a president’s term to the end, beginning with Jimmy Carter’s inauguration in January 1977.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/15/grading-the-obama-economy-by-the-numbers.html
