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00014 - The Tao Jones
  
 
 
 
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The Tao Jones
[DJIA from 5/26/1896 - 8/9/2010; 30,993 days of trading]

  
 

 

  
 
 
 
 
 
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The First 54 Days
[After originally opening at 40.94, the Dow closed at its all-time low of 28.66 fifty-four days later.]

 
 

 

  
 
 
     
 
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A Break for the Start of WWI
[Markets closed two days after the war started and remained so for 134 days. The next longest was 12 days for FDR's Bank Holidays in '33]

 
 

 

  
 
 
     
 
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Mount '29

 
 

 

  
 
 
     
 
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Simpler Times

 
 

 

  
 
 
 
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4
  
 
 
 
 
 
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