... I'm going to speculate that once Obama signs the Economic Stimulus Package ... the DJIA will jump up 300pts before close of market today ...

... than again, it could drop another 200 ...

could jump..... I hear there's alot of guys with shovels out there looking for a place to dig....

From what I read a minute ago, it's still tumbling.

jump back to zero maybe..?? can hardly wait for my extra $13 a week..... gonna go ahead and buy that new truck I think......

^ ... Barry is flapping his gums right now ... the mainstream investors are waiting on the sidelines to see what got cut/added at the last minute ...

... and I can't believe how much money is set aside for "clean energy" ... 10x the cost to harness & manufacture and 4x the maintenance cost of fossil fuels ...

... nothing about gun control though ... yet ...

Wait until everyone reads those 1500 pages.

FREE FALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

on it's way back up..... about 80 points in the past half hour I think....

Jimmy,

It ain't bad if you're in the clean energy business!

...just saying.

Yeah Drafter, I echo your sentiments. I just want to personally thank the Democrats for that extra $13 a week.

Let's see, over last year, property tax increase, $5.25 per week, increase in gas taxes $4.00 a week, increase in the cost of food $25 a week, increase in the costs of electricity $9 a week, increase in the costs of propane gas to heat the house $14 a week, NO PAY RAISE SINCE 2007, by the time you add it all up...

I'm behind by about $44 a week.

Once that $13 kicks in, watch the utility companies stand in line to jack rates again. Something I learned a long time ago. There will always be someone with their hand in your pocket to collect your extra money.

This tax cut is BS.

looks like it did a U-turn... falling.... lol

The messiah has no clothes.

Closed down 297

FAZ up 25%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Herf I feel the pain my last raise was July 1, 2000 I retired in 2005 and still waiting for this contract to be signed For all those knocking civil service try living on your 2000 salary this day and age

You're messing with FAZ now!!!???

I'm 50% long 50% short with DUG as my favorite. Basically, I'm a non-participant in today's carnage.

FAZ and the messiah will take me to the land of milk 7 honey.

Good day for DUG too.

Jimmy,,,

Day trading is dangerous with alcohol,,,

wheel,

#12 Same boat here, though I retired in 04. No COLA for me until 2014 (I hope).

My income went up, but only to the extent that taxes decreased, so now I'm basically SCREWED.

HONG KONG – Asian stock markets dropped early Wednesday as U.S. markets plummeted toward last year's lows and investors began losing hope that governments can rescue the world's economies from slipping deeper into recession.

It marked the region's third day of declines, and followed a sell-off overnight on Wall Street that sent the major benchmarks to within a hair's breadth of their lowest close in more than five years.

As President Barack Obama signed America's $787 billion measure to revive the world's largest economy, investors were still faced with a rash of downbeat news about everything form struggling U.S. carmakers to beleaguered banks and slumping business activity.

Amid the growing evidence of decay, investors are still waiting for more specifics from policy makers on plans to turn around a flagging world economy.

AP

They really have just no idea what to do. But, then, it was never about the economy, was it? Just really more about establishing SOCIALISM!

A much more solidified "socialism" ala Euro-style will be the end result.

Everything going the Republican's way, many here should be happy. Plenty to talk about, I'm glad you don't want a recovery under this president. You took your stand, drew your line in the sand. Now it's time to sit back and watch Obama fail. Of course, if it doesn't go the way you planned-want it to- I don't know how you will be able to lay claim to the fact you helped, but there is no chance of that anyway. Seems to me if you had the 'right' ideas on how to fix this mess all the time, you should have stepped out of the shadows then, and just fixed it. I see that you have all the correct answers now. What a joke. My guess is that you will say G.W. fixed it before he got out of office. Another joke.

If Obama can't fix this now, just look to HockeyDad for the answers, I think he is actually the closest to being right.