Saying it was a lost decade is misleading, a year ago the dow was up 3000 points from where it was in 1999, and that is after it went down to the 7000's in 2003, which was close to where it was in 1996.

Dow cycles are indepenent of our neat calendar years. If the decade ended last October we would have been saying, "Yowzer what a great decade!"

Well, maybe we wouldn't have been saying "yowzer".