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Obama: It's a Good Time to Buy Stocks
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Posted on 03/03/2009 10:09:52 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Obama: It's a Good Time to Buy Stocks President Obama compared the stock market to the daily tracking polls used during campaigns, saying that paying to close attention to Wall Street's "fits and starts" could lead to bad long-term policy.

FOXNews.com

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

President Obama said Tuesday that now is a good time for investors to buy stocks if they focus on the big picture.

The markets plunged Monday to its lowest levels in 12 years.

"What you're now seeing is a profit and earnings ratios get to the point that buying stocks is a good thing if you have a long-term perspective on it," he said to reporters after meeting in the Oval Office with visiting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Obama said he is not measuring policies against "the day-to-day gyrations of the stock market," but by whether lending is flowing more freely, businesses are investing and the unemployed are going back to work.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho2009; bho44; bhodjia; bhoeconomy; democrats; economy; obama; wallstreet
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1 posted on 03/03/2009 10:09:52 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

F**khead.


2 posted on 03/03/2009 10:10:15 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Sub-Driver
President Obama said Tuesday that now is a good time for investors to buy stocks if they focus on the big picture.

What the *bleep* would a community organizer know about financial markets?

Obama is dead wrong.

3 posted on 03/03/2009 10:11:20 AM PST by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

What the f#$k did he say??


4 posted on 03/03/2009 10:11:30 AM PST by lakertaker (Still clinging bitterly to my guns and religion)
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To: Sub-Driver

I WAS thinking about buying into GE or Walgreens. Now that O says I should, I definitely WILL NOT.


5 posted on 03/03/2009 10:11:39 AM PST by knittnmom (FReeper formerly known as 80 Square Miles)
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To: Sub-Driver

Stupid is what stupid says.....


6 posted on 03/03/2009 10:11:55 AM PST by rightwingextremist1776
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

What did HE do take a position in the market?


7 posted on 03/03/2009 10:12:01 AM PST by pointsal
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To: Sub-Driver
focus on the big picture

They are focusing on the big picture and that's why the stocks are plumetting. They see no future with you Obama.

8 posted on 03/03/2009 10:12:17 AM PST by softwarecreator (Definition of a sucker: Pay your bills like a responsible adult to compensate for those who didn't!)
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To: Sub-Driver

This guy is worse than a bad joke.


9 posted on 03/03/2009 10:12:20 AM PST by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: Sub-Driver

After you, dickhead.


10 posted on 03/03/2009 10:12:33 AM PST by Crawdad (Barack Obama- Economic Arsonist)
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To: Sub-Driver

F**k him. He’s causing the carnage.


11 posted on 03/03/2009 10:12:50 AM PST by pelican001
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To: Sub-Driver

When I hear things like this, I think of the housing bubble.

Is he running out of places to loot now, or what?


12 posted on 03/03/2009 10:12:53 AM PST by Califreak (1/20/13-Sunrise in America)
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To: Sub-Driver

Clueless. Absolutely clueless. No, I take that back. Perhaps subversive would be a better term.


13 posted on 03/03/2009 10:13:00 AM PST by bcsco (Illinois politicians should be read their Miranda rights when sworn in to office...)
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To: Sub-Driver

I’ll buy a g’damn stock when he’s been removed from office, not one damn second before....I’m personally hoping for a DJI average equal to this cretin’s IQ.....


14 posted on 03/03/2009 10:13:14 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Sub-Driver

Maybe he meant gold mining stocks.


15 posted on 03/03/2009 10:13:22 AM PST by Interesting Times (For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yes, dear leader. I obey. ($hithead!)


16 posted on 03/03/2009 10:13:51 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama dozed.....people froze.)
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To: Sub-Driver

The DOW drops 45 on the news.


17 posted on 03/03/2009 10:14:20 AM PST by rightinthemiddle (Without the Mainstream Media, the Left is Nothing.)
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To: Califreak

Investors don’t even know what their tax rate will be on capital gains or dividends, so that raises the risk of buying stocks versus other assets.


18 posted on 03/03/2009 10:14:32 AM PST by Oldexpat
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To: lakertaker

Buy stocks. How does he know ?


19 posted on 03/03/2009 10:15:02 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama said he is not measuring policies against “the day-to-day gyrations of the stock market,” but by whether lending is flowing more freely, businesses are investing and the unemployed are going back to work.

Ok, how are those working out for ‘ya?


20 posted on 03/03/2009 10:15:03 AM PST by John W
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