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This has GOT to be the longest reach I've seen yet.

Tom Brosz — 1/29/2004 5:58:04 PM (archived)

Below you see the actual DOW index. Please note that nothing on it indicates anything like the election-related trend that this article pretends exist.

Some doofus pulls a single company's stock chart off the shelf, whose trend matches whatever brainfart he comes up with, and this is supposed to be economic science? If I spent enough time at it, I could probably find a stock in some oddball company that has gone steadily upward since the day Bush was elected.

What the heck is your background anyway? Mine is no secret, nor is that of a lot of people here. You claim to know something about economics, but it's not showing up that well.

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• why did the Bush recession start? - Greg - 1/29/2004 1:24:14 PM
  • Since the clinton recession started in 2000, you tell me. (n/t) - ebnelson - 1/31/2004 1:15:17 AM
  • When you start taking 300 and 400 level classes, let us know. I'm sure we'd all be glad to help. (n/t) - RobVG - 1/30/2004 1:24:32 AM
  • According to the NBER (the official arbiter of when U.S. recessions begin and end), the economy peaked in March of 2001 . . . - Odin - 1/29/2004 11:37:05 PM
    • Maybe not. Your assertion appears to be dated... - Larry J - 1/30/2004 3:29:59 PM
      • Firsthand view - Tom Brosz - 1/30/2004 5:20:48 PM
  • This has GOT to be the longest reach I've seen yet. - Tom Brosz - 1/29/2004 5:58:04 PM
    • re: This has GOT to be the longest reach I've seen yet. - Greg - 1/30/2004 1:12:38 AM
      • re: the longest reach I've seen yet. - Tom Brosz - 1/30/2004 3:55:27 AM
        • probably - Greg - 1/30/2004 6:08:50 AM
    • P.S. The Rest of the Story - Tom Brosz - 1/29/2004 6:18:10 PM
      • re: P.S. The Rest of the Story - Greg - 1/30/2004 9:53:02 AM
  • Correction: why did the Clinton recession start? It began in late spring of 2000 with the dot-com collapse. Don't you remember. I notice that your graph omits this period. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/29/2004 3:51:04 PM
    • who says it's the Clinton recession? - Greg - 1/31/2004 3:45:51 PM
      • Give me a billion dollars and I'd have a spaceplane flying in three years. What would you do with it? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/1/2004 2:39:39 AM
        • re: Give me a billion dollars and I'd have a spaceplane flying in three years. What would you do with it? - Greg - 2/4/2004 6:50:23 AM
  • Answer, because Clinton started it a year before. - JR - 1/29/2004 2:46:23 PM
  • Look at the trend. It was falling during Clinton's last year. - JR - 1/29/2004 2:35:34 PM