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Whoops. Someone forgot to bring Hope and Change to the stock market.

November 12, 2008 at 1:26 pm --by Cindy · 8 Comments

It’s a little tough to watch again today.

Tags: markets & money

8 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Dan H // Nov 12, 2008 at 1:30 pm

    Face it. Until Inauguration (and probably for some time after), anything good that happens will be because of Barack, anything bad will be because of the Bush administration.

  • 2 Zach W. // Nov 12, 2008 at 5:03 pm

    Boy Cindy, you sure aren’t afraid to cast blame on Obama, even when it’s not warranted, are you?

    We only have one president at a time, and until January 20, 2009 that president is George W. Bush.

  • 3 Cindy Kilkenny // Nov 12, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    You obviously don’t understand, Zach. The market usually goes up between an election and inauguration. I guess Obama’s special.

    By the way – I didn’t even mention The One’s name! :)

  • 4 Randy in Richmond // Nov 12, 2008 at 7:28 pm

    Dan
    You’re right, especially when it comes to the MSM. But today I bought gasoline for $1.82/gallon and I want to thank President Bush. The lower prices are saving me around $100 per month over what I paid in July.

  • 5 J. Strupp // Nov 26, 2008 at 3:11 pm

    “Whoops. Someone forgot to bring Hope and Change to the stock market.”

    Maybe not.

  • 6 Cindy Kilkenny // Nov 26, 2008 at 4:08 pm

    Nah, we put in a new low the other day. I suspect we’ll have to test it before this is over.

    But I sure will take it for now! I need to cash out of a couple of things, and this looks good enough for me.

  • 7 J. Strupp // Dec 1, 2008 at 11:03 am

    Oh, I’m with you in the long run Cindy. Can’t argue. All I’m saying is that the market’s rise last week was a reaction to Obama’s appointees.

    As we’ve seen today, it doesn’t matter if he appoints Jesus as Treasury Secretary at this point.

    I gotta feeling we’ll be testing 6,000 when this thing bottoms out. You have hedge funds buying the Jolly Bond right now for Pete’s sake. If that isn’t an indication of everything hitting the fan, I don’t know what is.

    I feel bad for you old people. At least I have another 30 years to buy back my shirt :)

  • 8 Cindy Kilkenny // Dec 1, 2008 at 11:17 am

    I’m not wild about roller coasters in the first place. This is getting a little old.

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