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#403190 - 03/02/09 10:11 PM
Obama's effect on the Dow Jones
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Most people's stock portfolios have now lost 40% - 50% since Obama pulled ahead for the Democrat nomination in May. Has anyone fared worse?
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#403191 - 03/02/09 11:47 PM
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I see you listened to the Republican talking points on the radio today. It has to be Obama's fault. How could it be anything else? It couldn't possibly be the banks failing, manufacturing failing, rampant corruption on wall street, housing industry failing, rising unemployment, low consumer confidence, currency devaluation, European economy failing, Asian economy failing, failed credit markets..... Nah, it's probably the President that's been in office for a month. 
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#403192 - 03/03/09 02:25 AM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 08/03/03
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About 55% as of today, and that's an *average*. A lot of people have done worse.
Obama has only been in office a month, but we were promised 3 months ago he'd hit the ground running. He's had as much time as anyone to come up with plans, and has known for that long it would be his responsibility, not Bush's.
But so far not one bit of progress in addressing the problem. It's not that there's plan that hasn't worked yet - there hasn't been a plan, period. Instead what we've gotten is a budget whose deficit *dwarfs* anything Bush ever dreamed of. After Obama's budget, no one can ever again call Bush was fiscally irresponsible.
Monday brought the first credible hints of a plan in the "Bad Bank" proposals. It sounds like an RTC-type thing (except that management and shareholders aren't being wiped out) so it's an idea that should work if they're willing to pay for it.
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#403193 - 03/03/09 04:16 AM
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Kurt Lackwood's Fluffer
Registered: 01/18/06
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Just like a supertanker at sea, the inertia of bureaucracies can't change direction easily. It took years to fuck things up, it can't be corrected overnight.
Why anyone at this point is expected to see a rabbit pulled out of a hat is beyond me. And gleefully pointing out what a miserable failure the new President is up to this point has got to be one of the more ignorant statements I've been hearing. Have you no clue?
Being seditious will NOT make things better.
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#403194 - 03/03/09 05:08 AM
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Kurt Lackwood's Fluffer
Registered: 08/04/06
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So now it's sedition?
I thought the lefties said that dissent was patriotic.
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#403195 - 03/03/09 05:45 AM
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Registered: 12/16/08
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If Jesus Christ was the president the Dow would be tanking. Bush's people couldn't produce anymore hot air to inflate the markets, so they are returning to where they should have been before our bubbles (tech, housing, credit) fucked them up.
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#403196 - 03/03/09 06:51 AM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 09/01/08
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^There's some truth in that. But they have actually fallen below the bubble start. I am a little intrigued by some of the theories about the market being attacked by terrorist types. But of course all that spending of money you don't have has been the real culprit. I can't understand how Obama thinks that the problem will be solved by doing the same thing in an even grander scale.
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#403197 - 03/03/09 07:11 AM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 08/09/06
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Because liberals have one mantra: Spend it if you got it, spend it if don't.
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#403198 - 03/03/09 07:55 AM
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Bukkake Boy
Registered: 04/01/07
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Loc: Off the mortal coil
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Being seditious will NOT make things better.
Are you kidding? Can you really be that fucking stupid?
And Obama has been great for the firearms industry. Most stores I've talked to are up over 100% year over year.
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#403199 - 03/03/09 11:28 AM
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Being seditious will NOT make things better.
Are you kidding? Can you really be that fucking stupid?
And Obama has been great for the firearms industry. Most stores I've talked to are up over 100% year over year.
Lord of War (2005)
hint invest in firearms manufacturing companies 
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#403200 - 03/03/09 12:32 PM
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BackDoorMan: I'm not all that knowledgeable, but I'd call 1996 as about the time dot coms and tech were starting to blow up to crazy proportions. The Dow was 5-6K. Then all the Y2K stuff, every Corp in the country putting in new systems. Even if you put the start of the climb at 1998 (8-9K), a drop below that years level isn't surprising, because people aren't just pulling newer $$ from the market, people that have been investing for decades are cashing out so they don't torch 20-30 years of profit. Only thing worse than being the last guy in and making a tiny profit, is being the last guy out and selling you gout medicine to keep the heat on.
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#403203 - 03/03/09 03:25 PM
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blahhh2000: Dude, do you even understand English?
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#403204 - 03/03/09 03:30 PM
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Gay For Pay
Registered: 03/07/06
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Explain yourself.
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#403205 - 03/03/09 03:51 PM
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Whoremaster
Registered: 06/22/07
Posts: 2656
Loc: Polekatz, Rte 43
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Obama said yesterday that he can't let the market's "day to day gyrations" effect his plans. Sooooo, when the market loses half its value and 12 years of gains are wiped out it's just regular gyrations?
Wall Street has a supersensitive psychology all its own. You might recall that the market once made a big move just because Fed chairman Alan Greenspan said we were experiencing "irrational exuberance". It has tanked as much as it has because of Obama's massive spending programs, class warfare rhetoric, leftist reputation and intentional use of terms like "crisis".
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#403208 - 03/03/09 05:23 PM
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I'm thinking of buying a new car as an investment ever since I asked my Investment guy about my IRA this year and he said "uhh no".
I don't really care who you idiots voted for cause it's kinda like arguing over the world series...ten years ago. heh
Please do carry on.
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#403209 - 03/03/09 05:37 PM
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Pretty shocking news. Especially when you consider that the criticism is coming from the Wall Street Journal. hmmmm, now who owns the Wall Street Journal? Oh that's right News Corp. Now what else does News Corp own? Oh that's right Fox News Channel.
You don't think.....possibly....maybe.....couldn't be....nahhhhh. They are just speaking objectively. I'm sure they aren't trying to slant information to further a conservative agenda. Naaaahhhh! No way.
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#403210 - 03/03/09 05:38 PM
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Registered: 07/15/05
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I just had to cash out a dribble from my mutual funds to pay my 6 mos. same as cash motorcycle off. Ugh.
Lucky me, about 2 years ago I moved my retirement money into a safe place, playing the mutual funds game with inherited money, which I lost half of so far. I'm thinking if things start to swing back up, I may move some of the retirement money into the market.
One problem the market has is the thousands of small investors who are forced to cash out to survive after losing their jobs. Another problem is that conservatives have no confidence in this recovery plan. But the biggest problem, no credit for the wheels to start to grind again.
Good time to buy, Lou, I read on an RVer's blog he got a price below what the dealer paid for a car.
I'm rambling.
-Chuck, Vegetarian fanboy
Or, maybe I'm full of shit. Maybe a credit fix will just string us out more, and delay the reckoning. What will a "recovered" U.S. economy look like?
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#403211 - 03/03/09 05:50 PM
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Truth is truth except to left wing nut bag !
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#403212 - 03/03/09 07:26 PM
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oh for fuck's sake... NOTHING was bush's fault and now the random fluctuations of the markets (if down) are obama's fault. Typical. I am so sick of rightwing nuts and the politicians that represent them fall into lock step under a fucking oxy junky radio host. Keep this up and you kooks will be in the political wilderness for decades...and that will be the best thing for our country. The republican party is bankrupt for ideas and leadership. altho watching Mccain slam his gimp arm in his fake outrage about earmarks was kinda funny. And Bobby Jindal? HAHAHA Get used to the minority...the republican party is completely out of step with America
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#403217 - 03/04/09 01:34 PM
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The market was up 149 points today. Great job Obama!!
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#403218 - 03/04/09 03:12 PM
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No, DIJA is up because there was a rally in China and some investors hope for fast recovery of Chinese economy.
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#403220 - 03/04/09 05:15 PM
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No, DIJA is up because there was a rally in China and some investors hope for fast recovery of Chinese economy.
That's because the millions of Panzer-tards who are out of work because of the Republican Depression cashed out their 401k's and figured they would spend it while it was worth something, buying Chinese junk at Wal-Mart.
-Chuck, Vegetarian fanboy
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#403223 - 03/05/09 01:53 AM
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Kurt Lackwood's Fluffer
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I wasn't referring to your post, JRV, just happened to be the post following yours.
Depending on how I feel when I wake up in the morning, I'm either a Conservative Democrat or a Liberal Republican. I'm not wholly Left or Right, I'm politically in the middle with 70 % of the rest of Americans and I'm sick and tired of only hearing the bullshit from the 15% on the Left or the 15% on the Right.
When people like Limbuagh openly hope and pray that the current President's policies fail, that is not only counter-productive, it is seditious.
Isn't it the more "American" thing to do to come together and rebuild? I guess if you already have your$, the answer is "no".
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#403225 - 03/05/09 02:38 AM
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Coke, you are one of the dumbest people I've ever encountered. You have no idea what your talking about. You really don't. You are a truly moronic person. You don't understand monetary policy, obviously. You don't understand what socialism really is. You don't even care about what happens to the country. You just want things your way...you know like a 5 year old. You are a liar. You are a racist. You are a douchebag. Please do the world a favor and kill yourself. Or you can send me your address and I'll go muslim on your ass and mail your family your head. 
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#403226 - 03/05/09 03:14 AM
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You call me a racist and in the next breath talk of going "muslim" on my ass. Aren't you stereotyping all ragheads with that statement? You're inconsistent and scatterbrained (like most liberals).
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#403227 - 03/05/09 07:19 AM
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#403230 - 03/06/09 07:00 AM
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Bush didn't exactly pull his thumbs out of his ass on immigration either. Don't take my word, ask Compean and Ramos.
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#403231 - 03/06/09 07:03 AM
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Porn Jesus
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Unknown pervert is right, Bush and McCain were right in lock step with most dems on immigration. Nobody wants to do anything about this issue because as politicians they all fear losing that ever increasing voting block.
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#403232 - 03/06/09 07:45 AM
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Unknown pervert is right, Bush and McCain were right in lock step with most dems on immigration. Nobody wants to do anything about this issue because as politicians they all fear losing that ever increasing voting block.
The funny thing is, if they did lock down the borders, they wouldn't necessarily lose the votes of the ones already here- the ones "in" would begin to look down on the ones still "out" much like mulattoes looked down on their darker skinned brethren.
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#403236 - 03/07/09 05:28 AM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 08/03/03
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oh for fuck's sake... NOTHING was bush's fault and now the random fluctuations of the markets (if down) are obama's fault. Typical.
Banks & mortgages have long been a bipartisan problem, with Congress using those industries as their own fifes and preventing Presidents of both parties from interfering. Bush actually did try to reign in Fannie Mae's lending a couple of years ago and was slapped down by members of *both* parties. Bill Clinton suffered the same fate before him. Even now TARP has seen some meddling from Congress.
The "fluctuations" in the market aren't "random". They're essentially uniformly down, down in way that hasn't been seen since the 1930's. Most people have limited exposure to the market, but even limited exposure hasn't prevented ~ 4.5M from becoming unemployed.
For "the rich" - the ones directly exposed to market changes - it's been much worse than a decimation. Obama wants to pay for his budget with taxes on the rich alone, but the problem is that there are far fewer now than before the recession. About 75% of everyone who was a millionaire at the beginning of 2008 wasn't a millionaire at the end of 2008, and I'd bet another 10%-15% have vanished since then. That's not cause for cheering because the more they become extinct the more the middle class has to pay for Obama's spending.
(Obama's tax plans were based on 2006 numbers, hopelessly outdated now, and if he tries to rescue "the rich" so they can plan for his spending plans it will take them at least five years to recover, meaning the middle class has to pay at least until then)
(here's another reason you need "the rich" - the top 1% of tax returns paid 40% of taxes in 2006. If the can't pay that much this year it means that the middle class has to make up for it somehow)
The reason the markets are reacting so badly right now is that there seems to be no plan for a recovery (a stimulus and the mortgage program are kinda pointless without addressing the financial market problem first, and even TALF only does any good while cash is being poured into it). The blip on the Chinese announcement was because it seemed that at someone had a plan.
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#403237 - 03/07/09 06:56 AM
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The stock market/Dow Jones only looks forward. It is about what is expected in the future. We've got Obama for the next 4 years, so he owns it.
Who knows, his socialist idiocy could take us to Dow Jones 3000.
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