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The Joy of Disappointment

Today, Wall Street waited and prayed that Bernanke would save us from another recession by announcing another round of quantitative easing or QE3.  He disappointed us, and the Dow promptly dropped over 200 points.

But, then somebody wondered why he refused to do anything else to help us and noticed it was because we don’t need anymore help.  He believes the economy is better than we think, and the Dow closed up 134 points.

As long as we keep making money, he can keep disappointing us!