My friend Ben Day pointed this out, and I doubled checked his numbers to be sure: since the start of the supposedly pro-business Bush administration, the three major equity indices declined by 18, 33, and 43%, respectively. January 22, 2001, Index Closing Values Dow Jones Industrial Average: 10,578.24 Standard & Poor’s 500: 1,342.90 NASDAQ Composite: … Continue reading The Bush Years and the Equity Indices