User:JayHenry/chimpmanzee
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?
| 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 | ||||