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the dow jones industrial average when shrub took over: 10,587.59. the dow jones industrial average as of now: 7,949.09
result: down 2,638.50, or 24.92%. that works out to a loss of 2.82% per year.
yes, the dow jones is a wierd average to use and i'm not addressing issues like dividends, it's just a convenient, popular metric. it doesn't matter, any way you slice it it's not remotely pretty. the stock market rarely goes down over an 8-year stretch, but this is pathetic.
shrub set out to screw the majority in order to serve the interests of a narrow constituency, and at the end of the day, he screwed them, too.
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