djia when shrub took office: 10,587.59; djia at the moment: 10,771.77

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shrub has earned dow investors a whopping 184.18 points in nearly eight years! we're one bad day away from LOSING dow after so long!

shrub might very well be the first president to go out eight years later with a dow lower than when he took office.

(yes, a proper analysis would consider dividends and inflation and so on, but this would still make a fantastic talking point that bush/mccain SUCK for business.)

[n2doc]

1. Another day (or maybe later today, and there will be no net gain. n/t

[kansasblue]

2. ouch! Maybe it's a match with Hover.

Calling all stock market historians.

[beberocks]

3. I remember that Maria Bartaromo and the CNBC shills were saying

back in 2000 about how having a republican as president would make the stock market go up. She repeated that lie over and over. Just one of the many reasons I don't watch CNBC anymore--paid whores for the GOP.

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6. historically, dems are consistently better for the markets and the economy

inflation is just about the only statistic that's better under republicans.

if you're sitting on vast wealth, or are a retiree on a fixed income, that's all you care about.
anyone else is far better under a democratic president.

[lapfog_1]

4. One way to look at it...

If your 401K invested $1000 in the market 8 years ago ( using a basket of DJIA stocks), you would now have about $1017 in the account.

Now, there would have been some dividends paid along the way... but then inflation would have likely eaten up any gains from dividends (or worse).

[Double T]

5. The DJIA has a lot farther to fall.

Always wonder where America would be WITHOUT the bush/cheney/rethug destruction of our nation.

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7. UPDATE: dow closes at 10,609.66 -- a mere 22.07 point higher than when bush took office!

0.2% gain in nearly 8 years!

[spanone]

8. what i expected.....katrina economy