"Bay Bridge"

80 years ago...

The great bull market peaked 80 years ago yesterday -- September 3, 1929. The Dow closed at 381.17. The crash didn't come until October. Three years later, the Dow was down to 41.22.

The Dow didn't make a new high until November 23, 1954.

- Source: www.crossingwallstreet.com/archives/2009/09/80_years_ago.html


No Great Depression 2 for us though. Hopefully.
How's this unemployment curve treating ya?
Monthly Change in Non Farm Payrolls
Source: http://bespokeinvest.typepad.com/bespoke/2009/09/non-farm-payrolls-at-best-levels-since-lehman-bankruptcy.html

I'll have to do a Bill-investment post one of these days... what I've learned over the past year.
My end of the market-day trades are a-calling!
invest this... yow, bill

PS - Another crappy, lyrical QOTD
"I wanna tell everybody everybody
That you're so much more
Than they've ever even seen before

And I wanna tell everybody everybody
If they touched your hand
Then they'd never want to let you go"
- Sister Hazel, "Everybody"

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