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October 27 1 Comment latest by youdon'tknowjack
I was reading “What’s in Bernanke’s Wallet?
A psycho-financial analysis of Fed chair nominee Ben Bernanke” this morning and found it pretty interesting.
Henry Blodget, the infamous writer, was commenting about how Bernanke only has one stock (Altria), and how it reflects negatively on his intelligence/abilities as the future Fed.
To which Craig Newmark replied, “Yo, Henry, take another look at the chart.”
Here’s the chart of Altria:

I started playing around with some others stocks because I’m a big dork, and I got some interesting comparisons.

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youdon'tknowjack
July 26th, 2006
Yeah, your charts are entirely biased - MO goes all the way to something to like 1925. Lets see a percentage gain chart since then... I suspect it crushes MSFT...