Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Teh NOT Awesome

From Market Watch, a graph of the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial between March of '08 and now...






















This is the Dow Jones Industrials' performance over the last five days.
























I don't really understand all this. The sum of my knowledge of stock market investment is that it is a (slightly) more respectable form of gambling, and that if you invest in a fund that tracks the Standard & Poors Index you will eventually come out ahead.

But here's the Standard & Poor's Index over the last year:
























We'll be calling him "Barack, The Market Killer".

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nahh, he's just opening up the opportunity for me to catch up on my retirement plans :)

I'm sure that's his plan, right?