Topic: Gerald Ford

History The first stimulus checks were issued in 1975 as part of a stimulus package put into effect by President Gerald Ford. Recent Stimulus Cehcks President George W. Bush issued stimulus checks to all taxpaying citizens in 2008. President Barack Obama devised ...
Shades of FDR: Obama comes up with varied approach to confront worst recession since the 1930sFranklin Roosevelt, confronted with the worst economic crisis in the nation's history, wrote the book on government jobs programs. Since FDR, presidents have been less ambitious because ...

Ford's Legacy

INVESTORS OUGHT TO remember President Gerald Ford, who passed away last week at 93, for a key decision he made in December 1974. Ford took office in August 1974, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average had already lost more than a quarter ...