I’m very particular with my Halloween candy. Every Halloween, I come home with a pillow case half full of candy, and the first thing I do is organize it. There’s the chocolate pile, the hard candy pile, the Tootsie Roll pile, and the Wonka Candy. Anything that doesn’t fall into those categories is categorized according to the way the candy is packaged. Wait, but what does this have to do with the Economy?
This year after organizing my candy, something struck me as odd. The hard candy pile grew three times larger than last year’s, and the chocolate pile shrunk 37.5%. What could cause this outrageous change in candy levels? The poor economy of the United State of America.
The off brand big bags of hard candy are cheaper than the fun size chocolate brands. Usually people are willing to go the extra mile to make their trick-or-treaters happy, and they purchase the delicious chocolate candy. But this year, trick-or-treating was not as chocolate filled as last year’s Halloween.
I’m conducting an experiment to see how newly elected President Barack Obama does on fixing the US economy. Each Halloween while Obama is in office, I will add the new candy statistics to the chart above. If there’s an increase in chocolate candy, then the economy is doing better, thus people are purchasing the more expensive, more delicious, candy. If there’s an increase in hard candy, it means the economy is doing poorly, forcing people to buy the cheap stuff. Don’t let me down Obama.
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