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Andrew Roth of the Club for Growth ran the numbers on 2006. When Congress was in session, the S&P 500 went up 2.25%. On days when it wasn't it session, it went up 11.56%.

So you're probably asking yourself, "Was this just coincidental?" The cynics out there would say no. And the cynics would be right. Long term empirical evidence says that correlation does, in fact, mean causation. According to two economists, Mike Ferguson of the University of Cincinnati and Hugh Douglas Witte of the University of Missouri at Columbia, if you had invested $1 in the Dow Jones Industrial Average back in 1897 when the index first started and conducted the In/Out Session schemes until the year 2000, here's how much money you would have:

In Session: $2
Out Session: $216

Posted by edelfenbein at January 2, 2007 1:26 PM