-23.77%

[tekisui]

Total change in DOW Jones Industrial Average from chimpy's first day to his last.

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:.DJI&client=news

Can't wait for him to get lost.

[W_HAMILTON]

1. Good 'ole Bush...

...for awhile, the only thing he had going for him was the fact that the market was at record levels. Then in the span of a few months, they almost drop in half.

If you're gonna fail, fail big, I guess?

Easily the WORST ever.

[teamster633]

2. Well he was our first MBA pResident after all.

[Botany]

3. This was already posted on DU

$4.6 trillion of lost stock market value under Bush

Source: Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street will greet a new president this week with high hopes for a fresh start, but a deluge of corporate earnings reports pointing to a deepening recession could spoil the welcome party.

Stocks closed the curtain on the George W. Bush era on Friday, capping an eight-year run that produced a 36.9 percent drop in the benchmark S&P 500 (.SPX) and more than $4.6 trillion of lost stock market value.

With that dismal context, investors are eager to see what Barack Obama has up his sleeve to jolt the economy out of recession and restore confidence to battered financial markets.

Obama will be sworn in at midday on Tuesday as the 44th president of the United States and as the nation's first African-American head of state.

Markets on Monday will be closed for the Martin Luther King Jr Day holiday.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090118/bs_nm/us_column_sto...

[Kansas Wyatt]

4. Oh, but how long did you hear that the economy was BOOMING?

As long as the rich were making a killing, everything was golden, even though working people were getting screwed over all the time.

Now that the BushCo. & Republicans, Inc. shit has finally seeped up to the rich, it's a major crisis.