Honzo December 12th, 2005
voluntaryXchange: Grade Inflation, Media Bias and Economic Growth
Using this scale - which, mind you, is how your kids are
being judged in college - Bush grades out with 10 A’s in a row, and a
3.1 GPA for his entire administration (including the recession). For
what it’s worth, Clinton never did better than 6 A’s in a row using
this scale.Now, I don’t partake too seriously of this grading scale, but it
does illustrate how the economy is doing on a scale that is familiar to
most people.
According to the above linked post, the Bush Admin, while failing in Homeland Security Recomendations, gets a 3.1 GPA in Economics, with 10 A’s in a row! Not sure how accurate it is, but interesting none the less.
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Oh … it’s accurate.
Reasonable people can quibble about the assumptions leading to that
particular number, but the big picture is that any grading scale based
on real GDP growth is going to show the last 3 years as comparable to
Clinton’s best 3 years (1997-9).