[Pitchfork]

Well, frankly I'm a big fan of index funds and a huge fan of 'spydrs' so I didn't see a big hit until after Bush took office. You must have been deep in the NASDAQ.

Here is a link to the S&P 500 chart from 85 to the present. More empirical evidence of 90's growth in this countries 500 largest companies (I doubt pets.com is in this index).

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^GSPC&t=my&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=

[nopardons]

You're playing with SPOOS ? No wonder your 401K's in trouble. Leave that to the BIG BOYS. :-)

[MJY1288]

The S&P 500 is not a good barometer for the overall economy. The Nasdaq was crashing like the Hindenberg while the S&P was steady from 1998 thru 2000