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HoboSong		2009-07-23 01:33:15 PM

Sell a vowel!

Shadowknight		2009-07-23 01:33:32 PM

NewportBarGuy: Are we back to using the DJIA as an economic indicator again? Oh goody, I thought we might have actually learned something from doing that before. Thank god.

Best face palm pic ever.

SteelPeart		2009-07-23 01:34:09 PM

Senescent Dawn: I may one day find happiness when people stop talking about the DOW as if it were:

A) A barometer of the entire country's economic health
B) A verdict on the economic policies of the current administration

Remember that the DOW reached its height under Bush.

14 THOUSAND points to be precise.

When it hits 11,000 (where it was last November) then get back to us.

stellarossa		2009-07-23 01:34:18 PM

Nine thousaned ise prettye impressive. Maye drope soone, thoughe.

Wendy's Chili		2009-07-23 01:34:21 PM

JusticeandIndependence: schnarff: I just don't understand why everyone loves it so much when a much better stock-related barometer of the economy, the S&P 500, is so readily available. Seriously, how is an index that only includes 30 companies, which has a bizarre weighting system that only financial analysts could love, a decent measure of the stock market's performance?

Me: Hey I found $10?
schnarff: pff, why didn't you find $20? Ten bucks is nothing

wut?

Fool0ndahill		2009-07-23 01:35:05 PM

Hot like teh queen

Sticky Hands		2009-07-23 01:35:13 PM

Fred Quimby: Shocktopus: If the Dowe goes to 10,000 I can finally buy that Ferrarie I've always wanted.

If the Dowe goes to 10,000 I can finally get a hooker with teeth!

Dude, you're doing it wrong.
You should be renting hot soccer moms trying to make ends meet.

If the Dowe goes too high that all comes to and end.

Also, can you tell me where you are finding hookers without teeth?

Bartleby the Scrivener		2009-07-23 01:35:26 PM

thepensivepoet: Eddie Adams from Torrance: Bad newes?

Jason Mewes?

Pepe Le Pewes!

GoodyearPimp		2009-07-23 01:35:29 PM

Thunderpipes		2009-07-23 01:35:45 PM

Cool, so the millions of out of work Americans have jobs now? Awesome!

phlegmmo		2009-07-23 01:36:26 PM

"D'owe!"

KellyX		2009-07-23 01:36:28 PM

MonkeyVegetables

Vegeta, what does the ticker say about the Dow level?

YodaBlues		2009-07-23 01:36:41 PM

JusticeandIndependence: schnarff: I just don't understand why everyone loves it so much when a much better stock-related barometer of the economy, the S&P 500, is so readily available. Seriously, how is an index that only includes 30 companies, which has a bizarre weighting system that only financial analysts could love, a decent measure of the stock market's performance?

Me: Hey I found $10?
~~schnarff: pff, why didn't you find $20? Ten bucks is nothing~~ yodablues: Why are you asking me what you found? And how did you get into my room...again?!?

/FTFY

margarito bandito		2009-07-23 01:36:58 PM

Bad news for me. I took small profit and shuffled to a government bond fund after realizing the market was more irrational than usual. News that Parker Brothers (Scrabble boards) beating expections should not move the market.

stodluke		2009-07-23 01:37:19 PM

Bartleby the Scrivener: thepensivepoet: Eddie Adams from Torrance: Bad newes?

Jason Mewes?

Pepe Le Pewes!

Skippady doos?

/got nothin
//still got nothin

Bucky Katt		2009-07-23 01:37:21 PM

Pocket Ninja: elvisbloom: Dowe?

It's the European, socialized version of the Dow, and the fact that it's getting stronger under Obama's watch is why it's such bad news for him.

hehehehehehe

PC LOAD LETTER		2009-07-23 01:37:32 PM

Alacritous: Drastic erratic shifts in the DOW are not a good thing, it's up almost a thousand points in 14 days. There's gonna be some profit taking this afternoon I'll bet.

It'll come and go (maybe today, maybe in a week or 3), but the history of this recovery is that the Dow makes big jumps, people profit take, it drops down a bit. The dow was in the high 8000s and then dipped to the high 7's/low-8's and laid there oscillating for a while, now it's going to to beyond 9000, drop down to the high 8s for a while. The recovery will be jumpy, but progress on the Dow (which is a shiat indicator) is still being made.

IXI Jim IXI		2009-07-23 01:37:45 PM

Did a moos once bite its sister?

Keywork99		2009-07-23 01:37:57 PM

Oh come on, I had a way better headline than this.

Naked Rob		2009-07-23 01:37:59 PM

So its really only 7?

bwogle		2009-07-23 01:38:13 PM

DOW: How can I help you, young man?

Investor: I got a hundred-dollar check from my grandma and my dad said I need to put it in the bank so it can grow over the years.

DOW: Well that's fantastic. A really smart decision, young man. We can put that check in a money market mutual fund, then we'll re-invest the earnings into foreign currency accounts with compounding interest aaaand it's gone.

sab6300		2009-07-23 01:38:31 PM

Anyone else notice that stubby added an extra "e" to Dow.

//Can't believe I am the first to point that out

182		2009-07-23 01:38:43 PM

elvisbloom: Dowe?

D'oh?

Prank Call of Cthulhu		2009-07-23 01:38:46 PM

Dowe Jonef over nine thoufande for ye firft time fince ye ftart of ye year. Thif if bad newf...for Mr Jefferfon.

/Ye Olde Farkke

rickythepenguin		2009-07-23 01:39:07 PM

schnarff: I just don't understand why everyone loves it so much when a much better stock-related barometer of the economy, the S&P 500, is so readily available. Seriously, how is an index that only includes 30 companies, which has a bizarre weighting system that only financial analysts could love, a decent measure of the stock market's performance?

because the zionist banking conspiracy acting in concert with Borak "the Secret Muslin" Obama WHO WASN'T EVEN BORN IN AMERICA is trying to artifically control the media and let the illegal homosexual terrorist immigrators who smoke bongpipes into America to make America weaker and give comfort and aid to the enemy and not portect the troops in the Iraq and Afhganistan and the Middle East and take our guns and teach homsexualism in schools and make everyone get abortion forever and bankrupt the America. Also kick baby puppies right in their doggie faces.

error 303		2009-07-23 01:39:18 PM

SS_Samus		2009-07-23 01:39:23 PM

There's no way that can be right...CAN IT!

HMS_Blinkin		2009-07-23 01:39:24 PM

Senescent Dawn: Remember that the DOW reached its height under Bush.

-Stock is a measure of how much people THINK a company is worth.

-As such, stock is not a measure of economic health, but a measure of perceived health.

-That's how you get Enron, which had sky-high stock (also when Bush was President), suddenly collapsing because they were, in reality, a shell company in spite of their high perceived value.

-Thus, the Dow(e) numbers during the Bush years were pretty meaningless, since the economic reality was more rocky than the Dow indicated.

hyperspacemonkey		2009-07-23 01:40:08 PM

Senescent Dawn: Oh, sure. But bear rallies during recessions are very common things.

Good. At this point it is reassuring to know we are in a common recession.

IXI Jim IXI		2009-07-23 01:40:37 PM

I'm SO glad this gem made it to the main page...

Jmast7		2009-07-23 01:40:51 PM

I'm having a bad submission day... stupid work.

/D'owe!

Arkanaut		2009-07-23 01:40:55 PM

Fluff Girl: It's not Dow. It's Dowé.

/Sigh. Twice in one week.

Do you work for the McDonald's marketing department?

IXI Jim IXI		2009-07-23 01:41:32 PM

Keywork99: Oh come on, I had a way better headline than this.

Helen Keller could have submitted a better headline than this one.

uberdose		2009-07-23 01:42:04 PM

It's OVER 9000!!!11!!

DarKrow		2009-07-23 01:43:24 PM

IT IS OVER 9000!1111

/Am I the first one to post this?

tweekster		2009-07-23 01:44:27 PM

IXI Jim IXI: Keywork99: Oh come on, I had a way better headline than this.

Helen Keller could have submitted a better headline than this one.

And she couldn't even drive.

Ponzholio		2009-07-23 01:44:31 PM

Pocket Ninja: elvisbloom: Dowe?

It's the European, socialized version of the Dow, and the fact that it's getting stronger under Obama's watch is why it's such bad news for him.

Wouldn't that be Douw?

Handsome B. Wonderful		2009-07-23 01:44:56 PM

What 9000?!?

SherKhan		2009-07-23 01:45:34 PM

Te nama uf idexa ees ... Dowe.

error 303		2009-07-23 01:45:36 PM

tweekster: IXI Jim IXI: Keywork99: Oh come on, I had a way better headline than this.

Helen Keller could have submitted a better headline than this one.

And she couldn't even drive.

It's not her fault she was a woman.

Dennis_Moore		2009-07-23 01:46:05 PM

Dow

Jones

jonnnney		2009-07-23 01:46:25 PM

I was always under the belief that people thought the dow was the most important because it was the largest of the US indexes combined with the fact that people are stupid.

bitparity		2009-07-23 01:46:25 PM

nstoppiello		2009-07-23 01:47:23 PM

bruce4bruce		2009-07-23 01:47:43 PM

downs is up 9000%?

www.foietlumiere.org

TigerStar		2009-07-23 01:48:07 PM

DoWe Jones? Do We really know? Are you sure?

img136.imageshack.us

spacechicken170am		2009-07-23 01:48:33 PM

Bigger Leftist Intarweb Schlong		2009-07-23 01:48:57 PM

ZipSplat		2009-07-23 01:49:37 PM

This is my graph of headline spelling errors.

4customers.files.wordpress.com

Back in my day there was outrage over spelling errors in the comments section.

Smashed123		2009-07-23 01:50:43 PM

System of a Dowe?

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