BERKELEY, Calif. — Gosh, wow, the Dow Jones industrial average soared above 7,000 points last week. Golly, that's really something, isn't it? Even to the 80 percent of Americans who don't own any stock. Even to Americans affected by the fact that 93 percent of all the entitlement reductions made by the last Congress are in programs that help poor people in our nation.

Meanwhile, the Doug Jones average — the one that covers the rest of us (as in "How's ol' Doug doin'?&q ...

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