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Want to Know Who's Going to Be President? Ask the Stock Market

Stock-Markets / US Presidential Election 2012 Feb 16, 2012 - 12:57 PM GMT

By: EWI

Stock-Markets

What's the biggest influence on the outcome of presidential elections?

Many observers would identify the role of campaign spending by super PACs, a candidate's debate performance, and, of course, the health of the economy ("stupid").


Yet if you want an answer backed by a large body of evidence, you'll find one in the recently-published, landmark research paper by Robert Prechter, Deepak Goel, Wayne Parker and Matthew Lampert, titled "Social Mood, Stock Market Performance and US Presidential Elections."

A lot of time, data analysis, and copious statistical evidence led them to this straightforward result: "Social mood as reflected by the stock market is a more powerful regulator of re-election outcomes than economic variables such as GDP, inflation and unemployment..."

In other words: If you want a good predictor for the result of an incumbent president's re-election, look to the stock market.

Large amounts of earlier research have focused on stock performance after a presidential election. But very few scholars have reversed that order, to investigate a possible link between elections and preceding stock market performance. So reverse that order is what the authors did. What's more, they're the only ones to study the issue from a socionomic perspective -- the premise that waves of social mood simultaneously drive the valuations of stocks and sitting presidents.

The group published their research on January 17, and it's already getting attention. A Washington Post columnist read the paper and got its practical usefulness, by noting that Obama should benefit from a stock market that's been mostly higher since 2008, while a Republican challenger "should hope the Dow crashes."

You can read the entire research paper yourself by following this link >>

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