What did the Dow Jones have to do with the religious side of things?
Err, not much... sometimes the hosts provides snacks and beverages, and those are the glasses he happened to set out.
my grandmother has those glasses! (which i, understandably, covet.)
kirk, take a look at the market on election day plus one in any election year you care to name. On the first trading day after 9/11. On the day of the London bombings a year and a half ago. major world events move markets. the correlation is perfectly evident and some of us make a living keeping track of and trading on such movements.
They do, but as Jerry said, the markets don't seem quite as hairtrigger as they once were.
Or maybe it is just a matter of perspective, that it just *seems* like it would be harder to make a 1995-2005 glass.
Then again, it wasn't necessarily obvious to see what bit of news was an up, and what was a down; in some ways it was just a bunch of big news events with pointers into the charts.