DOW PASSES ALL-TIME HIGH [Closes under 5 points off record]

Yahoo Finance ^ | Sept 28, 2006 | RobFromGa

[the invisib1e hand]

It is among as low a risk a short sale as one sees these days.

[driftless2]

Ha, ha, no, just a sirloin of beef. However fish and chips are great in Britain. If you're ever in Aberdeen and want fish and chips, go to Mike's Famous Fish and Chips. They use haddock instead of cod. It's a take-out or takeaway as the Brits call it, but it was delicious.

[Milhous]

One way we can help counter the fortunes of $oreA$$, Burkle and other left wing billionaires is to buy some DIA, the ETF fund for the Dow. I will be doing that on the next short term dip. Which will probably come next week after this quarter ends.


Looks like a good way to give $oreA$$ the business. :) Meanwhile as Dow enters record territory Dinosaur Media continues in its death throes:

Time Warner slides; Mobile ESPN to shut down
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Time Warner shares were lower following a downgrade Thursday on a day that saw most media and entertainment shares decline in step with a weak broader market.

[pigdog]

Actually I've nothing to "take up with him". I merely don't follow his prognostications but those of others.

It's a free country IAE (last time I looked).

[Cinnamon]

DU suicide watch!!!!

[ableLight]

The market correction is now complete.

[Purrcival]

The mantra today was that the Dow may be reaching new heights, but the housing market is not looking good. Always looking for the dark cloud inside the silver lining.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Classic fabrication blip -- selling stocks based on "stories" instead of fundamental analysis. The media was happy to stoke this BS, because this aided the leftist claptrap that clinton was hyping, ergo that raising taxes did not harm the economy, but indeed provided enhancement. This was a critical element in their plan to completely discredit the Reagan economic agenda.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The Clinton administration was always an organized crime syndicate. The fact that Bush hasn't set this record straight is a testimony as to the depth of the corruption. One has only to look at Clinton's interview last weekend to understand that he is a lunatic.

[newguy357]

Unfortunately, to the jihadists, this will be like a red cape to a bull.

They've already stated that they hate us and want us to die. This doesn't change much.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

Please define what a "hard time" is for these people.

Actually if you read all of what I wrote (admittedly long) I beleive I mentioned that even the poorest Americans would be considered solidly middle class in developing countries.

A hard time is a matter of perspective. My heart doesn't bleed for them, I just see them as a political risk. As previously mentioned, to ignore this group is naive and to belittle their concerns potentially dangerous. Conservatives need to get beyond ideological rhetoric when it comes to dealing with this reality. It is domestic Realpolitik. That is all.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

Great article. Worthy of further discussion. Maybe in NYC.

By the way, when do you get the time to do all of the research and reading? Geez.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

Nope. Realpolitk. I guess you have a desire to lose. So be it.

[nopardons]

As Jesus said....THE POOR ARE ALWAYS WITH US.

Stop being a crepe hanger.

[agere_contra]

the people there have much less average living space

You just reminded me of an interesting set of facts!

Britain: 60,609,153 people living on a landmass of 241,590 sq km

United States: 298,444,215 people living on a landmass of 9,161,923 sq km

The UK has one fifth of the population of the US, and we're living on 1/36 of the space. That's about 1/7 the space per person. Now I know why house prices are so high over here ...(sigh)

[TheDon]

If this is losing, bring it on!

[Enchante]

If you really want some elbow room try these states:

Wyoming:

97,100 sq mi. (251,501 sq km)

2005 resident population est.: 509,294


Alaska:

Land area: 571,951 sq mi. (1,481,353 sq km)

2005 resident population est.: 663,661

[driftless2]

Thank you for your clarifying comment. The problem is that the "poor" will always be problematic for conservatives because the poor are always suckers for parties (Dems) who offer handouts at the expense of the producers. This is not to disparage legitimate poor people who are actually working hard to get ahead, but the fact is the conservative approach to lift oneself by ones bootstraps does not appeal to a certain percentage of the population.

Conservatives are trying to appeal to less well-off groups by stressing school choice and lower taxes...which the very poor pay little anyway. High health costs are in part due to the resistance of libs and Dems to any kind of tort reform which would help keep costs down. Nevetheless it is very difficult for one party (Republicans) to acquire voters when the other major party (Democrats) offer them (the "poor") something for nothing. And we all know who pays for that something. For conservatives to offer handouts which destroy initiative would betray their principles. The message of self-sufficiency must continue for conservatives at the risk drawing only a small percentage of the "poor" vote. To follow the lib Dem line would mean disaster for the country.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

There is nothing you wrote with which I disagree.