Rob Rogers is the award-winning editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. His cartoons have been vexing and entertaining readers in Pittsburgh since 1984. Syndicated by United Feature Syndicate, Rogers’ work also appears in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and Newsweek, among others.
Rogers has also been the curator of three national cartoon exhibitions, Too Hot to Handle: Creating Controversy through Political Cartoons (2003) and Drawn To The Summit: A G-20 Exhibition Of Political Cartoons (2009), both at The Andy Warhol Museum, and Bush Leaguers: Cartoonists Take on the White House (2007) at the American University Museum. Rogers is an active member (and past president) of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. His work received the 2000 Thomas Nast Award from the Overseas Press Club, the 1995 National Headliner Award, and numerous Golden Quills. In 1999 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
In 2009, Rogers celebrated 25 years as a Pittsburgh editorial cartoonist with the release of his book, No Cartoon Left Behind: The Best of Rob Rogers, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press.
He is currently serving as board president of the ToonSeum, a cartoon museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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cenright said, 3 months ago
The stock market and the economy are two very different things.
ConserveGov said, 3 months ago
I’m sure the record number of people on food stamps are making a KILLING during this bull run………
masterskrain said, 3 months ago
I world think all the Obama-Hating, rich Republican C.E.O. 1%ers in the country would be ecstatic right about now!
They can take all their corporate profits from the bubble, and stick them in their offshore accounts before the Dow collapses.
And, it will, since it’s an artificial rise in the markets.
Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago
O is bad at everything except campaigning 24/7.
His golf game is improving, though.
Adrian Snare said, 3 months ago
@cenright
Different things – true, but they are interlinked…or I should say that wall street is a player in the economy as is psychology…and education….these we must work on….and Wall Street MUST cooperate and help.
IMO, its the conservatives who have their feet on the brake of progress….they can release this pressure a good bit, but not completely..
Harleyquinn
said, 3 months ago
pop will go the bubble
Adrian Snare said, 3 months ago
Displaying the intellect of a very young Conservative.
Adrian Snare said, 3 months ago
@ConserveGov
When our nation looses its obsession with “killing”, we would have made a giant leap forward.
Adrian Snare said, 3 months ago
@Ms. Ima
Just what we need , the voice of negativity. Thank goodness,Ima, that you are now in the minority.
Soon, your doom and gloom will fade away , to be replaced by the light of knowledge.
lonecat said, 3 months ago
@HOWGOZIT From wikipedia:
“The US bear market of 2007–2009 was declared in June 2008 when the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) had fallen 20% from its October 11, 2007 high.12345
The DJIA, a price-weighted average (adjusted for splits and dividends) of 30 large companies on the New York Stock Exchange, peaked on October 9, 2007 with a closing price of 14,164.53. On October 11, 2007, the DJIA hit an intra-day peak of 14,198.10 before starting its decline.
The decline of 20% by mid-2008 was in tandem with other stock markets across the globe. On September 29, 2008, the DJIA had a record-breaking drop of 777.68 with a close at 10,365.45. The DJIA hit a market low of 6,443.27 on March 6, 2009, having lost over 54% of its value since the October 9, 2007 high.6 The bear market reversed course on March 9, 2009, as the DJIA rebounded more than 20% from its low to 7924.56 after a mere three weeks of gains.7 After March 9, the S&P 500 was up 30% by mid May and over 60% by the end of the year."
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The point here is that when you say “the DOW just got back to where it was during the Bush Administration” you seem to imply that the Dow maintained the high it reached until the end of the Bush Administration. In fact (if you care about facts) the crash began in the fall of 2007, when Bush was still president. The low point came in March of 2009, when Obama had only recently become president, but the markets reversed course at that point and they have steadily improved during the Obama administration.
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Notice that I’m not blaming Bush personally nor am I praising Obama personally. The president has only a small influence on the economy. The economic problems that burst during the Bush administration were the result of a lot of policies and practices over a long time. But your comment is either ignorant or deliberately misleading.
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The rise in the DJIA does not, however, reflect the overall condition of the economy — partly because corporations have figured out how to make lots and lots of money without employing a lot of people in the US. (Many pension plans, however, are heavily dependent on the market, so for a lot of people not directly in the market, the rise is still in part a good thing.)
PocketNaomi said, 3 months ago
@cenright
Not to Republicans.
Rockngolfer said, 3 months ago
Chris Matthews asked the question “Why do some people hate Obama so much?”
He didn’t come up with an answer. I understand that people watch bogus news shows and get caught in a bubble of not knowing what is happening in the world. It has to have something to do with race. I don’t understand where the haters get their hate.
masterskrain said, 3 months ago
@Mr. King
Not predicting, but I think it will happen eventually…
Dycel
said, 3 months ago
Wall Street has turned into a taxpayer protected casino for the TBTF banks derivative hedges.
The days when Wall Street was an avenue to allow the individual to invest in a business has been usurped into a shell game for thin air profits.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=big+banks+derivatives&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari
1opinion said, 3 months ago
@masterskrain
It will. Buy low sell high. Those who “know when to sell" ,sell and everyone follows. Welcome to the next bust.