When George Bush slithered into office due to the unconstitutional power grab of his daddy's Supreme Court cronies, the Dow stood at 10,643. Now, it's at 8,918, after falling all the way to 8,859.78. Measured from its 52-week high, 14,198.10, the market has lost over 5,000 points. Here's the good news: while the stock market has lost over a third of its value in the last year, that's not as abysmal a performance as the value of the dollar put in. This because the vaunted greenback has lost over half its value against the Euro since Bush came in. So yeah, yay republicans!