I agree. Dow and S&P is not a useful tracking indicator of effective policy.

Since Obama was elected, literally TRILLIONS of dollars in wealth have been lost in the stock market - a much larger amount of money than is in the stimulus plan. Had he been more friendly to the markets instead of insisting on punishing them, the wealth to bring us out of this recession would already be there and there wouldn't be any need for massive government spending and raising our taxes.