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Timeline of the US economy

  • Problem = fiendish syntax
  • Problem = colors. Would appear political for Republicans and recessions to have similar coloring.
  • Other things = major economic events
  • Other things = unemployment peaks?
  • Other things = Fiscal policy? Monetary policy?
A Timeline of the US Economy
Year Business cycle Stock market
(S&P 500)
President Treasury
Secretary
Fed Chair
1960 +86%
Peak 72.64
William McChesney
Martin, Jr.
Recession of 1960–61
1961 John F. Kennedy C. Douglas Dillon
1962 -28%; Trough 52.32
+80%
Peak 94.06
1963
Lyndon B. Johnson
1964
1965
Henry H. Fowler
1966
-22%; Trough 73.20
+48%
Peak 108.37
1967
1968
Joseph W. Barr
-36%
Trough 69.29
1969 Richard M. Nixon David M. Kennedy
Recession of 1969–70
1970
Arthur F. Burns
+74%
Peak 120.24
1971
John Connally
1972
George P. Schultz
1973
-48%
Trough 62.28
Recession of 1973–75
1974
William E. Simon
Gerald Ford
+73%
Peak 107.83
1975
1976
-19%
Trough 86.90
1977 Jimmy Carter W. Michael
Blumenthal
1978
G. William Miller
+62%
Peak 140.52
1979
G. William Miller Paul Volcker
1980 Recession of 1980
-27%
Trough 102.42
1981 Ronald Reagan Donald Regan
Recession of 1981–82
1982
+229%
Peak 336.77
1983
1984
1985
James Baker
1986
1987
Alan Greenspan
-37%; Trough 223.93
1988 +65%
Peak 368.95
Nicholas F. Brady
1989 George H.W. Bush
1990
Early 1990s recession
-20%; Trough 295.46
+302%
Peak 1186.74
1991
1990s United States boom
1992
1993 Bill Clinton Lloyd Bentsen
1994
1995 Robert Rubin
1996
1997
1998
-19%; Trough 957.28
+60%
Peak 1527.45
1999
Lawrence Summers
2000
-49%
Trough 776.75
2001 George W. Bush Paul O'Neill
Early 2000s recession
2002
+101%
Peak 1565.15
2003
John W. Snow
2004
2005
2006
Ben Bernanke
Henry Paulson
2007
-57%
Peak 676.53
Late 2000s recession
2008
2009 Barack Obama Tim Geithner