It's Bernanke Versus The Four-Year Presidential Cycle! I recently wrote a piece pointing out the history of the Four-Year Presidential Cycle and how it’s a potential bad omen for the stock market this year, or next (or both). The pattern of the cycle is that there is usually, but not always, a market correction in the first two years of each presidential term, and then recovery and a strong economy and market again in the last two years of the term ...
July 12, 2013 - Forbes