Re: DOW FLIRTS WITH 14,000!!!!! THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH

lubow wrote:

>>Now.  Now much is that in 2000 dollars?
>>
> 
> Funny you should bring that up.  If I had taken some money and put it in
an 
> insured savings account in Canada at 2% p.a. I would have had a profit
of:
> 
> Today, Canadian dollar = $0.95
> 1/21/2001 CAD = $0.63
> 
> 
> ($0.95 - $0.63)/0.63 = 50.7% plus interest = 57.66%
> 
> Had I taken the same money  and invest it into the S&P500, today I would

> have:
> 
> S&P500 on 1/21/2001 = 1342.90
> S&P500 now = 1551.50
> 
> 1551.50  - 1342.90/1342.90 = 15.5%
> 
> And for good measure
> 
> S&P500 on 1/21/1993 = 435.49
> 
> For the Clinton stock market
> 
> 1342.90 - 435.49/435.49 = 208.3% return for the Clinton stock market.
> 
> To sum up:
> 
> Insured savings account in Canadian dollars 1/21/2001 to present: 57.66%
> The Clinton stock market 208.3%
> The Bush stock market 15.5%
> 
> If you want to measure presidents by the stock market returns,  it looks

> like Clinton hands down, no contest

Good analysis. So based on that, work out what the DOW
is really at based on where the $ was in 2001. 8000?


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