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Why do you think the stock market fell so much today even though Obama signed the spendulus package?

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Ohio_Voter asked: Can't the stock stock market be used as a measure of how much confidence Wall Street has in the market? Didn't the investors see Obama sign the spendulus bill? Why didn't their confidence shoot up???KURT

Why does the stock market historically perform better during Democratic administrations?

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Michael S asked: See links below for evidence demonstrating that the stock market performs better during Democratic administrations than Republican administrations. http://www.frbsf.org/images/pdfcharts/el98-19a.pdf http://www.frbsf.org/images/pdfcharts/el98-19a.pdf dpj5: Let's see if what you're saying is true: As I look over the data, I see that the two of the three periods with the biggest gains (33-36, 97-01, ...