I'm probably more amused than I should be that either Harvard Pilgrim or C. P. Blouin seems to have misspelled our address as "Deer Rune Lane". Deer Rune. Hmm... I can live with that. :)
January 3rd, 2008
By way of the Deke News Network comes the observation that if you had invested $1 in the Dow Jones Industrial Average back in 1897 and held it only on the days when Congress was in session, your total returns through the year 2000 would be $2. On the other hand, had you invested the same dollar and held it only when Congress was out of session, you would have made $216. The same source also notes that during 2007, the S&p 500 was +7.0% for the days Congress was out of session, and -2.8% for the days Congress was in session.
This, I suppose, is why they call it Congress, rather than Progress.
