The U.S. stock market is wrapping up what is likely to be its worst decade ever.

In nearly 200 years of recorded stock-market history, no calendar decade has seen such a dismal performance as the 2000s.

Investors would have been better off investing in pretty much anything else, from bonds to gold or even just stuffing money under a mattress. Since the end of 1999, stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange have lost an average of 0.5% a year thanks to the twin bear markets this decade.

How's that Bush presidency worked out for you?

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FT, that strikes me as one of the kindest and most forgiving things that can be said about 21st century republicans. I commend you on your restraint.

LOL, Seems he has finally spit out some of the froth build up and has gotten back to his normal replying.

FOX is worse than Pravda.

I am a Social Capitalist, not a Communist. I have personally killed Communists.

…and yes, you can Thank Me for My Service.

That's what Daley Hopes [tm], too. Hopefully this health care recovery by the Dems is Lessons Learned. (Uh-oh. More “right wing” “corporatist” Democratic Party leadership speaks out, albeit with some exaggeration. The GOP isn't pounding anybody, or at least hitting anyone or anything hard. He also is somewhat evasive in not clearly, and bluntly staying what the problem has been this year, not “seems to be” [sic]. Note that the health-legislation passage was done by reducing the problem.)

“[N]ow they face a grim political fate. On the one hand, centrist Democrats are being vilified by left-wing bloggers, pundits and partisan news outlets for not being sufficiently liberal, 'true' Democrats. On the other, Republicans are pounding them for their association with a party that seems to be advancing an agenda far to the left of most voters.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar…

I wonder if part of the rush (which at times was mindless) to get things done this year (now to be replaced by “before the next election”) is in some ways a hope of trying to make things lurch to the left before demographics and other changes make it harder — which Census mischief can't stop 100%.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/no_2009…

What a bunch of goofy clowns.

FT, that strikes me as one of the kindest and most forgiving things that can be said about 21st century republicans. I commend you on your restraint.

As for crime being down, I guess that depends on where you are. Our business in Lansing has been broken into three times in the last 2 months, despite being on a busy well-lit highway, having an alarm system and survaillance cameras. Lots of smash and grab crimes around here in an area that used to be nice. The cops seem to be utterly useless at controlling any of this. Probably too busy writing out traffic tickets and busting pot users to fight crime.

Is that why Obama wanted dissent suppressed and the media muzzled and firmly controlled?

(the latter part, he may still want, so far as we know)

The trend is: Democrats lead better then republicans, especially in difficult times.

…and I got my H1N1 flew shot. My doctor, with pictures of Ronnie Raygun and Dubya all over his office, (I will be changing doctors because of this), said he had 500 H1N1 diagnosed patients come through his office alone. However the conservatives say it is some sort of “scare tactic”. What a bunch of goofy clowns.

Which one, Madoff, or Washington Made Off (Obamacare)?