[lbo-talk] Reps losing business class (sorry for last post)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 3 09:25:25 PDT 2007


On Oct 3, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote:


> Doug: "The stock market does better under Dems, the
> bond market under Reps."
>
> The Dow high was 12,000 under Clinton, right? Under
> Bush, 14,000. I admit I am surprised, though. I
> basically agree with you.

I ran the numbers going back to the 1940s. Two of the great bull markets of all time were under Dems - JFK/LBJ and WJC. The Reagan years were pretty good too, but Nixon's sucked, as did Bush 41.

Doug



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