Thursday, February 18, 2010

Chart of the day

Here's one big reason I don't buy into accusations that the economy suffered under the George W. Bush Administration because of insufficient regulation.

3 comments:

Ben said...

"Regulatory" in this chart does not refer strictly to economic regulation. Rather, it includes both economic and social regulations.

Colin said...

Ah, good point. Well, there's still this graph:

http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/1/enough-of-this-nonsense-george-bush-grew-the-sec

Colin said...

Oh, and this too:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKWxWOEilyQ/SrOVIYl43VI/AAAAAAAABJ0/IgtD_kymaJY/s1600-h/Picture+3.png