OK, correlation does not equal causation; but this is modestly humorous.  Over the last century, any time you had a multi-term GOP president (in other words, long enough to do real damage) you had a pretty substantial collapse in the banking industry (i.e., near fundamental economic collapse).  For the statistics junkies the R does not equal 1...it assuredly can be described as R<>1 but R is notably greater than 0.  Just putting down a list of presidents over the last century and then mapping the major bank panics over the same time period reveals some interesting stuff.