Impeach Obama !

EagleSmack

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Well, that article is outdated and wrong. DOW is now actually in positive territory.

Well if you click on the article now it has changed to "ZigZag". It wasn't outdated...it was from this morning.

News in real time.

At any rate... zig zagging is far from soaring.
 

SirJosephPorter

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Stocks drop...and go up, all the time. One day isn't a very good indicator of what's going on, if you even consider the DJIA to be a good indicator of economic health.

Here's the longer term trend:


What can you deduce from single day's fluctuation on that chart?

Quite right, Tonington. That is why it is absurd to make a big deal of stocks dropping because of unemployment news. As it happened, stock recovered, but even if they had been down by 100 or 200 points, it wouldn’t mean a whole lot.
 

EagleSmack

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Quite right, Tonington. That is why it is absurd to make a big deal of stocks dropping because of unemployment news. As it happened, stock recovered, but even if they had been down by 100 or 200 points, it wouldn’t mean a whole lot.

Yet not absurd to make the claim stocks are soaring?
 

EagleSmack

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  1. Ben Bernanke
  2. Larry Summers and Tim Geithner
  3. Mortgage Brokers
  4. Homebuilders
  5. Over-spenders and under-savers
  6. Too-big-to-fail banks
  7. Over-bonused financial types
  8. Overpaid large company CEOs
  9. Stock holders of overleveraged Corporations
  10. The U.S. Auto Industry
  11. Over-vehicled America
  12. Stock options
  13. Sir Alan Greenspan
http://www.gmo.com/websitecontent/JGLetter_ALL_3Q09.pdf

Who else?

We can't blame the president? We used to be able to blame them for everything... right down to hurricanes and sunamis.
 

SirJosephPorter

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Who else?

We can't blame the president? We used to be able to blame them for everything... right down to hurricanes and sunamis.


Sure you can blame the president, EagleSmack. But the right president to blame here is Bush (as Francis correctly pointed out). Bush was in power for eight years, the meltdown started under his watch.

Obama has been in office for less than one year. Give him a couple of years and then it becomes his crises. And Obama seems to be on the right track, there are many indicators which are showing that recovery is on the way. Unemployment takes time to come down, it usually lags behind by a few months.

If unemployment does not start coming down by this time next year, then Americans will start blaming Obama and the Democrats. But Obama has been in power for less than one year, he deserves at least one more year.
 

Tonington

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Who else?

We can't blame the president? We used to be able to blame them for everything... right down to hurricanes and sunamis.

You can blame whomever you want, however. The person I quoted gave supporting reasons for blaming the groups that he did. The agents of the market have more influence on the fundamentals than the regulators who set the rules do.
 

gopher

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''It will take time, after all this was the worst meltdown since the depression, it can’t be fixed overnight.''

The Great Depression was created by Republican Hoover.


''Unemployment rate - highest since 1983''

That was the Republican created recession under Reagan.

And who caused today's recession?

It was Bush.

No wait -- BLAME CARTER!

No, BLAME CLINTON!

No, BLAME OBAMA!! YES, BLAME OBAMA!!!
 

Francis2004

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''It will take time, after all this was the worst meltdown since the depression, it can’t be fixed overnight.''

The Great Depression was created by Republican Hoover.


''Unemployment rate - highest since 1983''

That was the Republican created recession under Reagan.

And who caused today's recession?

It was Bush.

No wait -- BLAME CARTER!

No, BLAME CLINTON!

No, BLAME OBAMA!! YES, BLAME OBAMA!!!

Oh come on gopher.. Let's do it like the good old days and blame Russia so it must be Putin's fault.. :lol::lol: