Bottom Line: When It Comes to the Economy: Are Clinton and Obama Making Things Worse?

Soundbites from this week: Barack Obama: "Our economy is not getting better; it's getting worse."

Hillary Clinton: "It's hard to conclude anything other than that the economy is in trouble."

Charles Payne: The bottom line is a big part of the economy is a self-fulfilling event. If I'm paying my mortgage and I have a great job, but I keep hearing how bad things are, I may go out and buy a bomb shelter. I may stop spending my money. And that's exactly what's going on. People who are doing very well and have no reason to worry… are worried. Most of the candidates and newspapers are shouting doom and gloom. It's interesting. We had a 7 year run with this economy, which is about 2 year longer than the average run. Had this been your typical economic expansion, we would have gone through this about a year and a half ago and been on the upswing already.

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