WOLFRAM|DEMONSTRATIONS PROJECT

Stock Market Returns by Party

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Choose delay in policy effects:
0 years
12 years
Choose year of investment:
1897
2007
Choose month of investment:
January
December
Log scale
Include dividend reinvestment
Include inflation
Graph both​
Lag time for policy effects:
0 months
Initial $10000 investment in:
January 1897
Current value under Republicans:
$156017
Current value under Democrats:
$217202
Current value under Both:
$3388713
Which party is better for the stock market, Democratic or Republican? In this Demonstration you can compare what would happen if you left an investment in the stock market (represented by the Dow Jones Industrial Average), but only during those times when either a Democratic or Republican president was in office. Since economic policies can take awhile to take effect, you can choose to shift the time ranges allotted to Democrats vs. Republicans by a fixed amount from the date of the inauguration. You can also choose whether to include the effects of inflation or dividend reinvestment.