[ExI] Religious Idiocy Triumphs Over Science Yet Again

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From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of John Clark
Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2015 9:05 AM
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Subject: Re: [ExI] Religious Idiocy Triumphs Over Science Yet Again

 

On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 1:17 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net <mailto:spike66 at att.net> > wrote:

 

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Using John’s numbers, he inherited 40 million, now is about 4 billion.  That’s 100-fold increase, when the stock market increased by about a factor of 20 to 25 in that same four decades.

 

​>…The exact amount Trump inherited is somewhat in dispute, it ranges from 40 million to 200 million; I chose to be conservative and use the lowest estimate…

 

There you go again, always the conservative.

 

>… ​And the stock market went up by a factor of 74 not 20 or 25.

 

​  John K Clark​

 

 

John which of these numbers is wrong? I get 22.  Where did 74 come from?

http://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-historical-prices/table/by-year


Dec 4, 2015

2,091.62


Jan 1, 1974

96.11

				

 

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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