Amid all the trumpeting regarding the "good" economy, recent "high" stock prices, it is important to note that the stock market has lost value in both simple calculations of the adjusted rate and net present value since January 2000.
What this means is that an an investment of $100 in the market in 2000 would be worth $80 in year 2000 value of money.
In other words for that $100 investment in 2000 to break even in today's dollars, the stock market would have had to return about $150 dollars. Since the Dow value was $11,750.28 on that date it would have had to reach at least $15,000 to hit the break even point.
The republicans cannot even manage the economy well enough for their backers to earn money!
We should be making more of this.