Originally Posted by
bkaapcke
Thanks to George Bush, the value of a dollar is falling through the floor. Imported goods are going up. ...
This ain't hardly Dubya's fault.
If you look at a yearly history of the Dow Jones, the rate of increase jumped around 1985, and jumped again around 1995. If the stock market had kept climbing at the rate it did previous to 1985, it would only be at 1500 to 2000 points today.
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