I may be wrong and sometimes am, but I believe the DJ was at 10,400 when it took the dive to 6500/6600. It is now close to 18,000.
If one sold at 9,000 and let their money rest on the sidelines in a money market with hardly any interest, and then got back in at 8,000 or so. One would have made a lot of money when it climbed back to 18,000. Certainly more than what one had lost and thought would never be regained.
TV people tend to have made more money than the rest of the country. In that regard, they are an anomaly. IMHO
For all the complaints coming from wall street brokers, they have done exceedingly well.
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