7 years into Bush's Presidency, NASDAQ and S&P 500 are BELOW the level of his 1st day in office.

What an amazing economy Gee-Duhb has created for this country!!!


NASDAQ then
2,757.91

NASDAQ now
2,346.90



S&P 500 then
1,342.90

S&P 500 now
1,333.26



As for the Dow, it's returned an amazing 15% over a 7-year span. Wheweee!! What's we average folk goin' be doin' with all that there moolah??

Great job Bushy-boy!

give 15%. If so, I'd love to know which one.

Either way, what the OP said about the last seven years doesn't speak very highly of Bush. I love his stimulus package - more tax breaks! It's their solution for everything. It's Pavlovian.

Is something less than a 2% annual percentage yield. Checking accounts with interest probably pay better.

have a year to go and not all the problems are on the table yet.

He bankrupted everything he ran before, why should the country be any different?

which would put them 10-20% under water.

At least Bush can't pretend he had a success in the economy. It was his one spot of light in a miserable term of office.

of 'puke rule, four more years of 'puke rule.

who presided over the 1929 stock market crash.

By the end of '08 the stock market will be several per cent lower than now.

they want 12-15% RETURN on their money

The old standard of 6-8% isn't good enough for them any more, but I would be happy with that!

I lost 66% of my 401 between 2000 and 2002. It gained enough to hit original investment amount last year, and I had made about 3% until the past 3 months!!

This MISADMINSTRATION had been good for the richest of the rich and has done NOTHING for the low end saver/investor such as me. I thought I could retire at 62 (coming in 5 years), but now I will probably have to work til 67 or so, IF the economy doesn't continue on this slide for another year!

And don't even let me get started on food, housing or medical care.

the Dow has stopped dropping.

as a comparison from when Bush took office

I have to tell you a story - well, it was during my lunch at a local diner yesterday (there are only 3 places to eat around here - one's a bar {very dark and greasy}, one's a deli {if you like to eat standing up} and the other is a diner (it's better than my mother's cooking, but that is really not a compliment} - so, my hubby and I are having lunch and there's a table full of farmers sitting about 8-10 feet away from us. Well, the one sitting closest (at the end of a table for about 8) said "Bush said he's concerned about the the economy and I want to know what he's going to do about it. Print more of those worthless dollars?"

Then noise kept me from hearing much more but I heard a scattering of words - China, oil and falling stock prices.

We'll see if things change around here in what I have considered one of the reddest counties in the country.

:hi:

People will vote based on how they are personally affected. I think that's why the Iraq War wasn't enough to turn the election against Bush in 2004. Not many people are directly affected by the war.

High gas prices, utility bills, food bills, healthcare, education and a shrinking earning power and "wealth" in home equity moving south *will* affect a greater number of the populace.

Check out the bottom of SMW:

The Nikkei 225 Stock Average dropped 389.26, or 2.8 percent, to 13,394.19 as of 9:15 a.m. in Tokyo, taking its loss this week to 5.1 percent. The broader Topix index fell 40.82, or 3.1 percent, to 1,289.62.

:hi:

And offshoring of jobs? And union-busting? After all, they're not getting richer in the stock market these days, so somebody's gotta pony up to keep the income gap expanding.

Each day's SMW can be found in LBN, starting usually early in the morning ET. It can often be found among the Greatest, later.

I appreciate your taking the time to respond.

Why! I heard on Fox Business the other day that the economy was doing GREAT!

<sarcasm>

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=624755222&play=1 :o

and the 1980's, will it repeat???

http://stockcharts.com/charts/historical/djia1900.html

that they had returned to the Clinton levels after six years in office. :shrug:

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Everything is just fine. Tune into American Idol. Have another beer.

Don't worry, we know exactly what we are doing.

And we all fall deeper into the rabbit hole. Lord above do we need another New Deal, or at least to reinstate and finish the first one. (Hint! Hint! Healthcare....)

I'm very happy with the return I'm getting on my "anything but U.S. stock/dollar" mutual funds. I'm still way ahead despite the turmoil. Little Junior ruined brand America and ruined global faith in our business environment and integrity. He dumped tons of money right into the sand for nothing. He screwed the dollar. He let business corruption run wild and free.

I look forward to repatriating my money and profiting when it looks like America has started thinking Consumer Reports and Scientific American again instead of People magazine and Fox News. What a bunch of fucking idiots my countrymen have let themselves become. W-sticker chumps. Sitting there watching their country going to hell and laughing into their beer...

The people I feel sorry for are the people who can't defend themselves in our country and around the world--and for U.S. troops and their families and friends. They have paid more for the Bush years than anyone else. Not just dollars and cents.

international cartels do VERY well when the dollar is SOOOOOOOOOO down.

Are we slow learners or what?

We are in a recession

The housing market is on the skids

What a fucking legacy!