Increasingly people are trying to measure markets by something that has constant value. So this is the Dow when priced in Gold; a bear market since '99. This has as much to do with the dollar disaster as anything. So? A lot of us think that the dollar has hit bottom and that buying stocks right now is exactly the thing to do. BUT I still think that Obama is a socialist and his Democratic Party high tax policies will cause a drop of at least 3,000 points,