Oh, I’m gonna get in some hot water for this one…
So the other day, I heard a comment that the Loonie was the highest it’s been since the early 1970s. About the time Tricky Dicky was in the Oval Office.
That made me wonder a little…
Thanks to the internet, there’s a lot of information that’s now readily available. Like historical data on the Canadian dollar vs. the American dollar. And finding dates of offices for seated US Presidents isn’t exactly something that requires a PhD.
So, using a graph acquired from the Pacific Exchange Rate Service and dates from the White House itself, I’ve come up with this:
[Ed. note: I had come up with a brillant(ly stupid) diagram that suggested the more right-wing a president, the higher the loonie. Unfortunately, that is also lost to time and poor backup habits.]
So I ask you, because I’m a little hesitant to read into this too deeply, does having a perceived ill-performing President directly lead to a low US dollar? We all know about Nixon, Ford didn’t really do much, Carter didn’t rock the boat (he is a peaceful person), Reagan brought about “Reaganomics” which then led to controversy, G. H. W. Bush brought about the first Iraq War, Clinton‘s biggest problem was his libido, and I’m curious to see how history writes up Dubya.
Things that make you go “hmm”…
