Mark Gongloff, Columnist

Yes, Stocks Are Soaring in the Trump Era

It’s not the best presidential record, but fourth place isn’t bad.

November 11, 2019 at 9:35 PM UTC

Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. He previously worked for Fortune.com, the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

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Using the stock market to measure presidential performance is to political analysis as eating Pringles is to nutrition. It is so, so pointless but so, so irresistible. So let’s pop open another can!