But Prime Minister David Cameron defended his government's economic record in his Davos speech on Thursday morning.
Ironically, though, however muddled and complex its tax system, France can boast a better recent economic record than Germany.
But Mr Cameron defended the government's economic record, saying unemployment was down and business backed the government's "plan for growth".
He won a second term in 2006, having campaigned on his economic record which has won him acclaim from Western donors.
He also laid out the distressing facts about Mr. Obama's economic record. (See editorial below.) Neither will be enough in November.
Indeed, the majority of respondents rate Mr Bush's economic record as very bad, and Republican respondents are only slightly less critical.
Mr Mwanawasa won a second term in 2006, having campaigned on his economic record which won him acclaim from Western donors.
By refusing to roll over debt or supply energy and spares, it could make Mr Lukashenka's wobbly economic record look even worse.
Still, if Mr Obama is going to emulate the economic record of any predecessors, Mr Clinton is not a bad one to pick.
If this policy is crude mercantilism, or a way to bolster the weak economic record so far of Prime Minister Abe, it is indefensible.
He defended his economic record despite low growth and unemployment at about 10%, saying the impact of Europe's debt crisis could have been far worse.
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But Twitter was also the place to find more illuminating information - from links to obituaries to data about the UK's economic record under the Thatcher premiership.
The education minister tore into the UK government's economic record.
Bush, too, has reason to be optimistic -- aiming toward the November election, Democrats have hit him hard on his economic record, citing more than 2.5 million jobs lost since his administration began.
In normal times David Cameron's criticism of Labour's economic record would have had to include some scathing personal criticism or devastating new statistics for it to get any coverage beyond a nib (news in brief).
We saw record economic growth, record expansion and record job creation.
Delivering another record economic performance may help them move closer to the top next year.
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Such trends could foster inflationary imbalances that would undermine the economy's record economic expansion.
Because after 1993, after that budget plan was passed, we saw record economic growth.
Until this week, signs of slow but steady economic growth and record profits for big companies had propelled stock-market indexes to all-time highs.
Our undefined, unstable dollar caused the crash of late 2008, and it is the principal problem behind what is unfolding as the slowest economic recovery on record.
Despite these pollyannish economic growth and record low unemployment projections, Ryan still assumes interest rates will remain near historic lows and that none of the cheap money showered onto the economy will ever find its way into the CPI.
The recent record of economic reform in the places that need it most is decidedly mixed.
Those are high expectations for any company, much less one without a track record of economic profitability.
Such high expectations seem overly optimistic for a company with no recent track record of economic profitability.
To make matters worse, the Caribbean's record of economic growth has been mediocre.
Labour's record of economic stability and fiscal prudence does not impress in Sparkbrook.
Staking his own claim, Mr Morgan highlighted his partnership government's record on economic development, "which is now bearing fruit in a strong economy".
This expectation seems overly optimistic for a company with a declining NOPAT and no track record of economic profitability.
But in the past eight years things have slowed down, partly because of the general economic malaise, with record companies reluctant to invest in new musicians.
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