Comments on: Dow — Feels Like 1966, Baby! http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/03/09/dow-feels-like-1966-baby/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:35:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Dow Industrials: Partying Like It’s 1966 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/03/09/dow-feels-like-1966-baby/#comment-63960 Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Dow Industrials: Partying Like It’s 1966 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:25:14 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=4412#comment-63960 [...] Brad @ The Liberty Papers Related PostsPutting The Bailouts In [...] [...] Brad @ The Liberty Papers Related PostsPutting The Bailouts In [...]

]]> By: Don Lloyd http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/03/09/dow-feels-like-1966-baby/#comment-63953 Don Lloyd Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:54:30 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=4412#comment-63953 Brad, "I’d love to recreate this graph and make the vertical access non-logarithmic. I think that would really show how far inflation has caused the two curves to diverge." Since the vertical data has no absolute meaning and the relative significance of one data point versus another is contained in their ratio, the existing logaritmic vertical scale is the most meaningful. Regards, Don Brad,

“I’d love to recreate this graph and make the vertical access non-logarithmic. I think that would really show how far inflation has caused the two curves to diverge.”

Since the vertical data has no absolute meaning and the relative significance of one data point versus another is contained in their ratio, the existing logaritmic vertical scale is the most meaningful.

Regards, Don

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