Washington DC Fannie Mae 2015 Audited Earnings Were $10.995 Bil, 72% Below That of Its Average Annual Audited Earnings For 2012-14 ..... All 11 DC Companies Other Than Fannie Mae With Market Caps Below $10 Bil Generated 2015 Total Audited Earnings Which Were 74% Below That in 2014, 78% Below 2013 and 86% Below 2012 ..... But It Gets Even Worse in the 1st Quarter 2016 Where Fannie Mae's Earnings Drop By Another 40% and the 11 DC Companies With Market Caps Below $10 Bil Had Their 1Q 2016 Total Earnings Decline By Another 83% From the 1Q 2015 ..... When Earnings Drop So Precipitously Across the Board, Capitalism Doesn't Work Properly and Especially the Middle and Lower Economic Classes Suffer Financially ..... The Republican and Democratic Establishments Have Not Created a Favorable Economic Environment in DC Which Would Permit DC Companies, Their Employees and Their Families To Flourish in 2015

Since there will be a Democratic US Presidential Primary between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders which will be held in the Nation's Capitol on Tuesday, June 14, 2016, I think it would be helpful to research just how well Washington DC Publicly-Held Companies have fared on the earnings front.

From both the superb Google Finance website and US Company SEC filings, below here are the reported US GAAP Audited Earnings (Losses) From Continuing Operations for the most recent Annual Fiscal Year End (FYE) 2015 and for 2012 through 2014 for all 13 Publicly-Held Washington DC HQed Companies:

				2015	2014	2013	2012
				Net	Net	Net	Net
			Most	Income	Income	Income	Income
	City		Recent	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)
Washington DC Publicly-Held Companies	HQs		FYE	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Fannie Mae	DC		Dec 15	10,955	14,209	83,982	17,220
Average Annual Earnings 2012-14				38,470
2015 Earnings % Below Average 2012-14				-72%
Danaher Corp ($68 Bil Market Cap)	DC		Dec 15	2,599	2,543	2,591	2,181
With Market Caps Below $10 Bil
The Carlyle Group LP	DC		Dec 15	400	915	1,348	2,400
Washington REIT	DC		Dec 15	89	5	(0)	8
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp	DC		Dec 15	74	70	98	69
FTI Consulting	DC		Dec 15	66	59	(11)	(37)
Cogent Communications Holdings	DC		Dec 15	5	1	57	(4)
CoStar Group	DC		Dec 15	(3)	45	30	10
DuPont Fabros Technology	DC		Dec 15	(4)	125	54	61
Easterly Government Properties	DC		Dec 15	(6)	68	26	10
Vanda Pharmaceuticals	DC		Dec 15	(40)	20	(21)	(29)
Liquidity Services	DC		Sep 15	(105)	30	41	48
The Advisory Board Company	DC		Dec 15	(119)	24	23	23
Total all 11 With Market Caps Below $10 Bil				357	1,362	1,645	2,559
2015 Total Earnings % Below That In:
………. 2014				-74%
………. 2013				-78%
………. 2012				-86%

Also from a review of US Company SEC filings, below here are the reported US GAAP Earnings (Losses) From Continuing Operations for the First Quarters of 2016 and 2015 for all 13 Publicly-Held Washington DC HQed Companies:

				1st Qtr	1st Qtr
			First	2016	2015
			Quarter	Net	Net	Increase	Increase
			2016	Income	Income	(Decrease)	(Decrease)
	City		Month	(Loss)	(Loss)	Amount	%
Publicly-Held Washington DC Companies	HQs		End	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Fannie Mae	DC		Mar 16	1,136.0	1,888.0	(752.0)	-40%
Danaher Corp ($68 Bil Market Cap)	DC		Mar 16	758.4	558.0	200.4
With Market Caps Below $10 Bil
The Carlyle Group LP	DC		Mar 16	7.9	604.8	(596.9)	-99%
Washington REIT	DC		Mar 16	2.4	29.4	(27.0)
DuPont Fabros Technology	DC		Mar 16	36.7	26.3	10.4
FTI Consulting	DC		Mar 16	30.2	23.7	6.5
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp	DC		Mar 16	13.6	18.6	(5.0)
Liquidity Services	DC		Mar 16	(0.9)	1.4	(2.3)
Cogent Communications Holdings	DC		Mar 16	3.4	(1.6)	5.0
CoStar Group	DC		Mar 16	16.7	(6.1)	22.8
Easterly Government Properties	DC		Mar 16	1.1	(8.0)	9.1
Vanda Pharmaceuticals	DC		Mar 16	(12.4)	(10.2)	(2.2)
The Advisory Board Company	DC		Mar 16	10.3	(22.1)	32.4
Total all 11 With Market Caps Below $10 Bil				109.0	656.2	(547.2)	-83%