US President Barack Obama completes 100 days in office on Wednesday - a day when the media and the US public gives him his first report card. His biggest test has been the economy.
It's impossible to turn the world's biggest economy around in 100 days. But his supporters say it's clear President Obama has tried.
"Look, given the deck of cards he had he is doing a phenomenal job, ok. We would have liked him to solve the economic crisis, brought the whole world back to growth again, removed all toxic assets, fixed the banks and got wall street back to 12000. But Rome was not built in a day," said Indira Nooyi, Chairman and Chief Executive, PepsiCo.
But not everybody is impressed.
Critics say his $787 billion stimulus plan will add to the spiraling US budget deficit - forecast to hit a massive $1.75 trillion this year.
The president has also had to deal with the fury many Americans feel over bailouts of Wall Street,
"In 100 days he has managed to destroy a country. He unfortunately feels that the easiest way of getting through this is by bailing people out. Then he should be bailing the middle class out!" says a local.
While positive reviews of his first 100 days have been pouring in, Barack Obama knows that the real assessment of his presidency will depend on whether he can fix the US economy.
Whether his economic policies will work won't be known for months, if not years. But what is certain is that if the economy recovers, he'll get all the credit. If it doesn't, he'll get the blame.
