Dear Diary,
Let me tell you, today was pretty slow. I added 18 points — not a lot, but as usual I’ll take a win.
The tax bill — a compromise between the Obama administration and Congress — appears well on its way to passage. That’s probably good for me in the short run, Read More
Dear Diary,
This week has been truly remarkable for how boring it’s been. By The Wall Street Journal‘s reckoning, I haven’t had a week this boring since 2006. Today’s climb of 40 points caps off five days of tiny fluctuations in either direction. I just felt flat; there wasn’t much crucial news to precipitate Read More
Dear Diary,
It’s been tough lately. I wake up in the morning and I don’t have a really good reason to get out of bed. I feel like I’m just kind of floating my way through each day, not really attached or involved with anything that happens.
If you look at today’s 2-point loss — Read More
Dear Diary,
I was chugging along just fine until about 3 p.m., when suddenly I lost all my momentum. An hour later, the closing bell rang and I’d racked up a three-point loss. I just kind of petered out there. It’s hard to say why, frankly, but I’ll try to explain.
Obama and Congress reached Read More
Dow Diary,
You know, it’s tough being famous. Every day, a bunch of reporters write about me and what I do. They love to say that I “surge” on good days (and I like to read about that), and they love it — love it — when I “plunge.” I can’t blame them; if it Read More
Dear Diary,
Happy Hanukkah! I forgot to mention it yesterday, because I was too excited about my enormous victory. Not that it matters a whole lot, because technically Hanukkah hadn’t started yet, because it starts at night, and it was still daytime, and so technically it’s the first day of Hanukkah, so I’m not Read More
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Dear Diary,
Cowabunga? Victory? Hooray? Banzai? Batter up? Abracadabra? I’m having a hard time coming up with a word to describe today, but let’s go with “awesome” for now. Today was totally Awesome. With a capital A.
I surged really steeply in the early going and never quit all day, ending with a 250 point Read More
Dear Diary,
Well, we’re back to the full five-day grind after last week’s shortened outing, and I have to admit I feel a little daunted by the prospect of slogging through four more days of worry over the sovereign-debt crisis in Europe. And that negativity was evident today, when I lost 39 points.
So here’s Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
