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2016 Postmortem

LiberalFighter

(50,739 posts) Fri Jan 18, 2013, 10:07 PM Jan 2013

DOW posts a 5 year high today.

The Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index closed at five-year highs on Friday as the market registered a third consecutive week of gains after a solid start to the quarterly corporate earnings season.

NY Times

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DOW posts a 5 year high today. (Original Post) LiberalFighter Jan 2013 OP

because the Republicans SteveG Jan 2013 #1

SteveG

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1. because the Republicans

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Sat Jan 19, 2013, 12:38 AM

Jan 2013

folded on the debt ceiling. they will fold again on the sequester. Get the economy on track, and then deal with the deficit. That's how it works.

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