THose of You That Love Obama

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DeafCaroline said:
Stocks Return More With Dem in White House - Bloomberg

"While Republicans promote themselves as the friendliest party for Wall Street, stock investors do better when Democrats occupy the White House. From a dollars- and-cents standpoint, it’s not even close."
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The stocks go up because of inflation and participation by the Plunge Protection Team. There are also speculators in bubble times, but the primary cause is the former two items.

But stock investors actually don't do better, and have not for the last 12 years. Please consider the gold/DOW ratio... Remember this thread - http://www.alldeaf.com/personal-finances/96686-any-stockbrokers-here-4.html#post1985042 - read my post and look at the graphic images, one of which shows a gold-dow ratio that has been declining. Which means that back around 2000 or so, it took over 40 ounces of gold to buy one unit of the dow. Today, it's a little over 7 ounces of gold to buy the same unit of the dow. A decline of nearly six times, meaning gold has outperformed the stock market by nearly 6 times, silver leading the way by nearly eight times the bottom! That's not counting the time when silver hit the high 40s for a short while last year. You need to look at a 12-year dow chart to realize that it was at just under 12,000 in 2000, went as high as a little over 14,000 in late 2007, and now rests at under 13,000. And this is in nominal terms only. We haven't even counted in inflation of the last 12 years.
 
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