George W. Bush

President George W. Bush will leave office in less than 24 hours handing it over to a popular new Democratic president, Barack Obama. George W. Bush leaves office with an approval rating of 22%, the lowest for any outgoing president. Some regard him as the worst president of all time, but was he really that bad or did he have a streak of bad luck?

The US recession of 2008/2009 is a growing concern for the government. Of course, economies though are made up of people and cannot be run by models, but rely on psychology. When the US House of Representatives rejected a bailout in 2008, Dow Jones took a dive of 777 points. Although a revised bill was accepted the market still went down. This is what I mean by psychology, bad news creates fear, and as Franklin D. Roosevelt said "we have nothing to fear but fear itself." But never fear, I'll tell you about the history so that you know not to worry.