they really really will do ANYTHING to keep them out. Even shoot themselves in the foot. Why? Because they are stupid and conservative rich white males. And they are willing (if not intent on) lying to improve their situations.

Conservo rich white boys (they're not men emotionally; I chose my words carefully) would rather lose their shirts than accept that a black guy helped their portfolios. They're biting the hand that feeds them.

It's a misnomer that "Wall Street" is against Democrats.

in the sense that shrub gave obama such a low starting point, there was nowhere to go but up!




good lord, what a disaster shrub was! the dow actually went down during EACH of his terms!

But with those numbers, imagine where it could have gone without the hole he had to dig it out of.

holy crap what a mess we'd be in today!

. . . seeing as how they're nothing but one worthless anti-Obama, anti-government, anti-Democratic, pro-corporation RNC propaganda outlet.

managed to be out of the market, or to have hedged against it, from mid-2008 through early 2009. Or better yet, from late 2007 through early 2009.

On a semi-related note, I wonder if there will be a market sell-off by the end of this calendar year, especially in view of the ACA rules that come into effect in 2013.

It would be a lot harder to have a 68% gain in 3.5 years without first having a 17% loss. By almost destroying the economy, Bush did what he could to help.