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GliderGuider

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3. And crude oil is trading at $60...

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Tue Dec 23, 2014, 11:26 AM

Dec 2014

I sense a fundamental disconnect...

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Breaking: Dow Jones Industrial Average hits 18,000 for the first time - @WSJ [View all] Hissyspit Dec 2014 OP

Enough of the media propaganda of "but regular folk are not feeling it". Who the fuck is spending Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #1

I agree my mutual funds are now rocking... Historic NY Dec 2014 #5

My stocks are rising!!! GOLGO 13 Dec 2014 #2

And crude oil is trading at $60... GliderGuider Dec 2014 #3

Why? FBaggins Dec 2014 #4

A variety of reasons GliderGuider Dec 2014 #6

excellent post n/t Psephos Dec 2014 #7

None of which appear to make sense... sorry. FBaggins Dec 2014 #8

We'll see, won''t we? One way or the other. nt GliderGuider Dec 2014 #9

I doubt it FBaggins Dec 2014 #12

If you had a lick of common sense StoneCarver Dec 2014 #34

Did he really save you a fortune? FBaggins Dec 2014 #35

Every time I read the good news about upaloopa Dec 2014 #10

Largely with you... up until the last sentence. FBaggins Dec 2014 #14

Well I guess that it depends on your point of view. upaloopa Dec 2014 #16

We'll need some definitions there FBaggins Dec 2014 #17

I don't remember it was in the 70's upaloopa Dec 2014 #18

Sorry... I didn't mean in class FBaggins Dec 2014 #21

Our economy needs the consumer to spend. upaloopa Dec 2014 #22

Nothing wrong with that perspective... FBaggins Dec 2014 #23

The wealth gap is caused by tax policy and social economic upaloopa Dec 2014 #25

Damn that Obama! SoapBox Dec 2014 #11

Seems that the Rich swapping money back adn forth between them,,,,, Cryptoad Dec 2014 #13

Have you not seen the unemployment rate, wage growth and consumer spending lately? Etc., etc. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #15

the subject is the DowJones Cryptoad Dec 2014 #20

I think you missed Fred's point FBaggins Dec 2014 #24

Some folks get upset when their gloom and doom outlook is challenged...sometimes there is a good Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #27

ummm Cryptoad Dec 2014 #29

Did DU mess up the posting order? FBaggins Dec 2014 #30

yes Cryptoad Dec 2014 #31

That part I'm "not understanding" FBaggins Dec 2014 #32

Oh Please spare us the self rightousness of the Rich, Cryptoad Dec 2014 #33

I blame Obama. n/t SpankMe Dec 2014 #19

Of course Wall Street is celebrating the gift Congress gave to them. diabeticman Dec 2014 #26

Obama still comes in #3 after FDR and Clinton in stock gains in his first 2,000 days. pampango Dec 2014 #28

of course if you bring up the middle class's return to 1928 in these stories you neatly MisterP Dec 2014 #36