Dow Perspective: Back to The Beatles
March 5, 2009  flash update! 

As visitors to this website know, I like to look at real (inflation-adjusted) prices of the popular indexes.

Here's an interesting tidbit. In real value, the Dow low of 6726.02 on March 3rd brought the index to a level very near the record high in 1966 — 43 years ago. How close? A mere drop of 1.9% would have taken us back to the year of The Beatles album Revolver. Shades of Eleanor Rigby!


Only one day after I posted this, the Dow did transport us all the way back, in real terms, to the 1966 high. So tonight I'll sort through my CDs and find that Revolver album, which ends, appropriately, with Tomorrow Never Knows.