Stock Market Closed for 4.5 
Months because of WWI
        
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              Kennedy  Assassination '63
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              Savings &  Loan Bailout  '88
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              Latin American Debt  Crisis (early 80's)
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              USSR  Exploded it's  first Atomic  Bomb '49
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              Great Depression '29 - '43
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              Hitler Invades  Czecho- slovakia 1939
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        Source of Inflation, GNP and Interest Rate data: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
GNP, Home Prices, the U.S. Dollar and the monthly close for the DJIA and the S&P 500 are 
shown in logarithmic scale. The annual rate for prime rate and inflation are shown monthly in 
a modified, semi logarithmic scale.
        
        GNP: US Gross National Product.  
Prime Rate: U.S. Bank Prime Loan Rate.   
DJIA: Dow Jones Industrial Average (monthly close).  
S&P 500: Standard & Poor's 500 (monthly close).
Home Prices: US House Price Index - Purchase Only Index, by the Federal Housing Financing Agency.
Inflation: Points above the white line indicate inflation. Points below the white line indicate deflation.
US Dollar: Trade weighted index of the value of the US Dollar by the Economic Research division of the 
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.  
Updated May 10, 2018
        
        
        
        
        
        
                                
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