If you think George W. Bush’s economic policies caused the Great Recession and Barack Obama’s ended it, then your Election Day decision is likely an easy one. But placing politics aside, I don ...

Where Obama’s wrong However, this doesn’t tell the whole story. As it turns out, the statistics that fell faster after mid 2009 also recovered more quickly than they did during the Great ...

What that record shows is that President Obama, with his throwback, old-fashioned, 1970s Keynesian economics, has put America through the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression.

The quarter before Obama took office, real GDP fell at an annual rate of 8 percent. In the first quarter of his first term, the job market shed over 2 million jobs.

The long economic downturn that began in late 2007 came to be known at the Great Recession –- the worst period since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Even though both events were momentous ...

Great Recession. Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer provided a "macro" overview of Barack Obama's first 100 days in office and discussed the effects of the ...

The Great Recession was a sharp decline in economic activity from 2007 to 2009. It was the longest economic downturn since the Great Depression.

I was in college when the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009. But I couldn’t find a job that summer or the next one because the effects of the recession, which reverberated throughout ...

This recession is associated with the beginning of the Obama era. Job seekers attend a career fair at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, on August 5, 2009. Scott Dalton/Bloomberg/Getty Images ...