<img src="http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/kaavio.Webhost/charts/big.chart?nosettings=1&symb=DJIA&uf=0&type=2&size=2&sid=1643&style=320&freq=2&entitlementtoken=0c33378313484ba9b46b8e24ded87dd6&time=12&rand=248899376&compidx=&ma=0&maval=9&lf=1&lf2=0&lf3=0&height=335&width=579&mocktick=1">Quote from peilthetraveler:
Where you getting your quotes from? Dow is nowhere near near 19,200 (which would be a double from when he was elected)
Now, if you want to know what did double since he elected, I will tell you. Gas prices.
What else doubled? Bankruptcies.
What else doubled? Bank failures. Oh wait...no I'm wrong...there were 26 bank failures in 2008 under Bush. In 2009 there were 140! 2010 there were 156. 92 in 2011 and this year there have only been about 39 (Guess we are running out of banks)
<img src="http://66.70.86.64/ChartServer/ch.gaschart?Country=Canada&Crude=f&Period=96&Areas=USA%20Average,,&Unit=US%20$/G">
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"U.S. bankruptcies on pace to fall to pre-2008 level
Thu Jul 5, 2012 12:07pm EDT
"(Reuters) - The number of U.S. businesses and consumers filing for bankruptcy fell 14 percent in the first half of 2012 and could end the year at the lowest level since before the 2008 financial crisis, according to data released on Thursday."
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/05/us-bankruptcy-stats-decline-idUSBRE8640UB20120705
