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The Weakest Job Growth In 6 Years
https://politicalwire.com/2018/01/05/weakest-job-growth-6-years/"SNIP...........
Steve Benen: “Providing some additional context, now that we have data for all of the previous calendar year, we can note that the U.S. added 1.84 million jobs in 2011, 2.19 million jobs in 2012, 2.33 million in 2013, 3.11 million in 2014, 2.74 million in 2015, 2.24 million in 2016, and 2.05 million in 2017.”
“Or put another way, while Donald Trump’s first year as president has been pretty good overall for job creation, Americans nevertheless saw the slowest job growth in six years.”
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bragging, underperformed several nations in 2017 Germany, France, China etc, all saw more robust growth in 2017.
Good thing the MSM continually points this out whenever the Gump administration acts like they've turning water into wine. 
Trump's stock market is great, but rest of the world is greater, Bloomberg, 10/27/17
President Donald Trump likes to boast about how well the U.S. stock market’s done during his term. What he doesn’t mention is that the rest of the world has gotten richer, faster at the same time.
American equities are now worth $28.4 trillion, having swelled by almost $3 trillion since he took office in January, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
But they’ve lost ground against the rest of the world.
All stocks across the globe are valued at $89.9 trillion. U.S. shares make up only 31.6 percent of that total. That’s the lowest proportion since November 2011, or a few months after the U.S. flirted with default. And it’s sunk from the 11-year high of 38.3 percent set in December under then-President Barack Obama.
President Donald Trump likes to boast about how well the U.S. stock market’s done during his term. What he doesn’t mention is that the rest of the world has gotten richer, faster at the same time.
American equities are now worth $28.4 trillion, having swelled by almost $3 trillion since he took office in January, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
But they’ve lost ground against the rest of the world.
All stocks across the globe are valued at $89.9 trillion. U.S. shares make up only 31.6 percent of that total. That’s the lowest proportion since November 2011, or a few months after the U.S. flirted with default. And it’s sunk from the 11-year high of 38.3 percent set in December under then-President Barack Obama.
There's a graph beginning in 2004 of U.S. market capitalization as a percent of global market capitalization
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-27/trump-s-stock-market-is-great-but-rest-of-the-world-is-greater
This is from late October. Unfortunately after a half hour of googling, I haven't been able to find either index, so I can't provide an update.
