Its hard to measure how the economy has grown and there are many different measuring sticks. Most use the gross domestic product. I was curious to see if I could use the Dow Jones index as a measuring stick. Since Jan 20, 2001 when Bush took office the dow has lost 1140 points. The GDP was around 10.2 trillion in 2001 and 13.4 trillion in 2007. The dow was around 10280 in 2001 and 13400 in 2007. I know that the two aren’t tied together but the losses and gains we’ve seen here are almost the same. I’m curious to see what the GDP is at year end. Will we drop to 9.4 trillion?
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