Last week, Ben Merens spoke with two of the four candidates for U.S. Senate, Rae Vogeler and Robert Gerald Lorge. Today, after four, he will be joined by Senator Herb Kohl and Ben Glatzel. Guests:
4:00 - 4:30 Herb Kohl, Democratic incumbent, running for re-election, U.S. Senate
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4:30 - 5:00 Ben Glatzel, Independent candidate for U.S. Senate
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The Dow Jones closed yesterday at a record high. After five, Ben Merens’ guest economist explains why this is good news for the American economy.
Guest:
Kevin Quinn, Associate Professor of Economics at St. Norbert College in DePere
posted by At Issue with Ben Merens @ 1:44 PM
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A dissenting voice on the Dow story, liberal blogger Billmon (whose day job in the markets) writes:
So if you invested $1,000 in the 30 companies in the Dow six years and almost nine months ago, you'd have $1000.34 today!
But, alas, if you invested that same amount in the S&P 500 Index (which in the winter of 2000 was bubbliciously full of tech stocks) you'd have only $910.56, and if you "invested" it in the companies in the Nasdaq Composite (the souffle of '90s equity indices) you'd have just $552.04.
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