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Today's as good a day as any for a friendly reminder:
Dow on January 20, 2009--7,949
Dow on January 20, 2017--19,732
Such was the "mess" Donald Trump inherited.
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It's now 19,177, just 10 minutes later.
You can't post anything about the stock averages cause they are swinging sometimes by hundreds of points a minute, thousands of points in just a few minutes.
It's popular here to say screw the stock market, it only involves the very rich, when actually millions of middle-class Americans have all of their retirement money tied up in mutual funds tied to the market.
