Here’s how the Dow Industrials ^DJI did as an investment purchased in 2000, as of 2010, ten years later. Bring on the Maalox please!!

Here’s how the Dow Industrials ^DJI did as an investment purchased in 2000, as of 2010, ten years later. Bring on the Maalox please!!

* These 30 Companies Currently Comprise the Dow Industrials ^DJI  (as of 2/31/08) with their ROI to investors over 10 years 2000-2010:

3M Alcoa American Express AIG AT&T Bank of America Boeing Caterpillar Chevron Corporation Citigroup

6.1% = Not Bad -5.5% = wow killer 0.1 % = Nothing -29.0 % = Suicide? - 0.5%= Nothing - 1.7 % = Awwww 1.9% = < CPI 17.7% = Best in ^DJI  11.6 % = Great!! -18.3 % =Owieieie!

Coca-Cola DuPont ExxonMobil General Electric General Motors Hewlett-Packard Home Depot Intel IBM Johnson & Johnson

3.3% 4.1% 7.7 % - 6.3 % = Ouch !! Incalculable 4.2 % = Bank CD - 0.9 % = OIOIOI - 1.9 % = Yuch !! 6.9 % = NOT BAD 4.0 % = Bank CD

JPMorgan Chase McDonald's Merck Microsoft Pfizer Procter & Gamble United Technologies Verizon Comms Wal-Mart Walt Disney

2.5 % = < CPI 10.8 % Junk Food!! - 5.3 % = Awful !! 4.9 % = Poo !! - 6.0 % = Oioioioi!! 7.5% = Not Bad 9.2 % = War profits 2.3 % < Inflation 1.4 % < Inflation 3.8 % ~ Inflation