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...as of 3:59pm Dow 6,552.47 -74.47 -1.12% Nasdaq 1,270.03 -23.82 -1.84% S&P 500 676.98 -6.40 -0.94% ------- I like how the keep writing things like "investors are battling uncertainty" when it's the certainty of Obama's socialism, desired tax increases and hostility to the free market that people are battling. There's nothing "uncertain" about it.

So let me do the preachers of Armageddon one better. Today's stock market isn't just the “worst since the Great Depression,” like they're so fond of saying. No, it's even worse than the Great Depression. Take a look at the chart, below. It shows the daily progress of the S&P 500 in terms of percentage change from the very top. The brown line is the change from the recent all-time highs on October 9, 2007. The blue line is the change from the all-time highs just before the Great Depression, September 6, 1929. As of yesterday's close (Thursday, March 5),...

Liberals are continuing their assault on investors, traders and the stock market. Peter DeFazio introduced the Let Wall Street Pay for Wall Street’s Bailout Act of 2009 bill in another utterly audacious attempt to stifle private enterprise. What is especially sad, the purpose of this bill as officially stated is to pay for TARP! TARP was shoved down our throats by the liberals, largely rejected by the GOP and force fed to the American public. This bill was introduced several weeks ago, but I am just learning about it now and someone that participates in the market find this to...

Major indexes down for second straight week; Nasdaq Composite hardest hit U.S. stocks on Friday fell sharply to tally a second consecutive week of losses as a record decline in retail sales and a warning of falling mobile-phone sales hammered home the ongoing fallout of the ailing economy. The market again showed its erratic side in the final hour of trade, briefly turning higher as utilities and consumer staples gained, but ultimately being weighed down by technology. Finishing near session lows, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU:Dow Jones Industrial Average: 8,497.31-337.94-3.82% $INDU 8,497.31, -337.94, -3.8%) declined 337.94 points, or 3.8%,...