One Veep Candidate Is Biden His Time; The Other Tries To Not Palin Comparison  9/2/08

After rallying nicely to start off the holiday shortened week, most of the major indices surrendered their gains (and then some) later in the session as investors began to position themselves for what will certainly be one of the most amusing elections to watch in recent memory.

With regards to today's action, on the one hand, you’ve got investors who are worried about how badly the stock market will get hammered when Obama and Biden win the White House and attempt to implement Obama’s tax plan, and on the other hand, you’ve got a group of investors who are worried about just how much further foreign confidence in the dollar will fall if McCain and Palin manage to take command and collectively begin putting their best maverick foot (feet?) forward on the international stage.

Suffice it to say, it is our opinion that no matter who wins, the market will continue to be a great place for growing companies to provide healthy returns for their investors as time goes by, even if there is some market turbulence over the short-term… and thus, despite all the craziness going on in the world of politics (and you know it is only going to get crazier as the election gets closer), investors are encouraged to stick to the game plan that has been outlined in the newsletter for the past several issues.

Now that Labor Day is behind us and volume is picking up again, we ought to get a better sense of where investors actually stand by the end of this week (and will provide an update of our assessment in the Inter-Issue Commentary due to be published next weekend).

Past Commentary

Obama Picks Biden, The Clintons Pick a Fight, and McCain Fans The Flames 8/25/08

Phelps Rocks The House; NBC Drops The Ball On Bolt 8/18/08

The Market Goes For Gold; Gold Goes For The Gutter  8/11/08

Another Day In The Market Gulag 8/4/08

McCain Slips In The Polls; The Market Slips Too  7/28/08

Mac Sales Rock, But Apple’s Stock Falls 7/21/08

Bush Calls For Offshore Drilling; Investors Get Drilled (again) 7/14/08

Microsoft-Yahoo, GM, G8… You Name It, The Market Is Watching (and weakening) 7/7/08

España Takes The Crown, The Market Stays Down 6/30/08

Goodbye, Mr. Carlin – Your Humor And Insight Will Be Missed (All Seven Words And Then Some!)  6/23/08

Tiger Prevails… but What A Valiant Effort By Rocco!  6/16/08

It’s McCain and Obama – Let The Worrying Begin! 6/9/08

Clinton Hangs On, McCain Gears Up, and The Market Heads Lower 6/2/08

“Welcome To The Northern Plains Of Mars!” 5/27/08

Clinton Hangs On While Obama And McCain Gear Up For Battle 5/19/08

Obama Moves Back Into The Driver’s Seat 5/12/08

The Market Sinks On Cinco De Mayo 5/5/08

Top Picks Take Their Positions In NFL Draft; Top Picks Flying In The Stock Market Too  4/28/08

Pennsylvania Prepares To Share Its Thoughts On 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.  4/21/08

As The Market Approaches Its Own Amen Corner, Trevor Immelman Proves He’s The Master This Time Around 4/15/08

Memphis & Kansas, Bulls & Bears… Let’s Get Ready To Rumble!  4/7/08

March Madness Continues; The Government Continues To Tinker 3/31/08

March Madness Is Upon Us; What Will April Fool’s Day Bring? 3/24/08

Bear Stearns Encourages A Stern Bear  3/17/08

Spitzer To Call It Quits-er?  3/10/08

Wall Street Perks Up (but is the rally sustainable?)  2/25/08

Kosovo Goes Solo; The Market Goes So Low 2/19/08

McCain’s In The Fast Lane, Obama’s Making A Move  2/11/08

It Don’t Mean A Thing If You Don’t Get The Ring 2/4/08

Obama Rocks SC; Giants and Patriots Get Ready to Rumble! 1/28/08

Third Tynes A Charm For Giants Fans 1/21/08

Bending… But Still Not Broken 1/14/08

Ohio St. and LSU Get Ready to Rumble; Martek Rocks The House (aren't short-squeezes fun?!) 1/7/08

Stocks Limp Across The Finish Line As 2007 Comes To A Close 12/31/07

Happy Holidays!  12/24/07

Volatility Remains High (though, to be fair, so does the market as a whole!)  12/17/07

Celgene Tumbles, but The Market Acts Well 12/10/07

Evil Knievel Makes The Big Jump; The Markets Take Another Tumble 12/3/07

A Thanksgiving Hangover For The Market  11/26/07

Celgene Buys Pharmion (but the market tanks anyway!)  11/19/07

All Gave Some… Some Gave All (Thank you, veterans!) 11/12/07

The Patriots Continue to Dominate (and so do The Bulls) 11/5/07

Oil, Interest Rates, and Bears – Oh My!  10/29/07

Market Holds Its Ground After Friday’s Anniversary “Celebration” (Apple Rocks The House After The Close)  10/22/07

Cal Bears Lose Traction; Market Bears Try To Gain Some  10/15/07

USC Falls To Stanford (Cal Bears Ranked #2… grrrrr-ah – Go Bears!); The Market Continues To Climb 10/8/07

Dow 14,000… With Great Strength In Our Stocks As Well!  10/01/07

Cal Bears Win Again (Go Bears – Grr-rah!); Market Bears On A Losing Streak 9/24/07

Will The Fed Get An Emmy Award For Its Role In This Week’s Episode Of "The Market"?  9/17/07

Fantasy Football (er, the NFL regular season) Finally Gets Underway! 9/10/07

Cal Bears Win; Will Market Bears Also Find Victory?  9/3/07

Gonzales Is Gone-zo… and So Are The Buyers, It Seems (at least for today)  8/28/07

Kids Start Heading Back To School, Investors Ponder Last Week’s Lessons  8/20/07

Bernanke Joins The Panic Party; Karl Rove Gets Goin’ While The Gettin’s Still Good  8/13/07

Bear Stearns, Stern Bears, and A Whole Lot of Market Volatility All Make Headlines   8/6/07

The Tour de France Has Ended… Is The Maket’s Tumble Finished As Well?  7/30/07

Bush & Friends Continue To Sink; The Market Keeps on Rising  7/23/07

Dow 14,000 Just Around The Corner?  7/16/07

Roger Federer and The Market Both Continue To Impress 7/9/07

Market Fireworks for the Fourth of July 7/2/07

A Week of Weakness for Dow, Nasdaq, and Others… 6/25/07

Nate Pile makes his television debut on CNBC (so Monday’s Commentary got bumped to Tuesday!)  6/19/07

Will Colin Powell Buy A Vowel (an O-bama, to be more precise)?  6/11/07

Putin’s Puttin’ Pressure on The President (but does the stock market care?)  6/4/07

Market Thoughts on Memorial Day 5/28/07

Having a Whale of a Time in California; The Market Continues to Climb  5/21/07

Obama?  Giulliani? Clinton? Gingrich? Edwards?  Who has what it will take?  05/14/07

Disaster In Kansas; The Market Keeps Plugging Along 05/07/07

Dow Finally Clears 13,000…  and thus far holds it!  4/30/07

A Dow Close Above 13,000?  Not yet…  4/23/07

Bush and Cheney Still Struggling… but The Market Keeps on Truckin’ Anyway 4/16/07

Zach Johnson Dazzles Augusta While The Market Tries To Dazzle Investors  4/9/07

Market May Be Stabilizing; Washington D.C. Still a Mess 4/2/07

Stocks Rallying Despite Foolishness in Washington D.C.  (Whether Democrat or Republican, if you're not outraged, you're not paying attention!) 3/26/07

March Madness Begins; Political Madness Continues… 3/19/07

Market Primed for Subprime Peril?  3/12/07

Down Goes The Dow, Up Goes An Eyebrow 3/5/07

Oscars, Oil Prices, and Anna Nicole Smith (who cares about Iraq?)  2/26/07

Britney Spears Shaves Her Head; Our Eye Brows Remain Intact  2/19/07

The Dixie Chicks Make Out Nicely Not Making Nice – The Market Cools Off Anyway 2/12/07

The Colts, Prince, and Another Week’s Worth of Corporate Earnings  2/5/07

Coming Up This Week:  Earnings, The Fed, and a Super Bowl! 1/29/07

State of the Union, Oil Prices, and Earnings –Where are the markets headed next? 1/22/07

Iraq, iPhones, and “I have a dream…”  – the I’s had it last week (so a motion must have carried somewhere, eh?) 1/15/07

Markets Finding Traction Ahead of Bush Speech?  1/8/07

Buying, Selling, and Buying the Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 – all in the same day! 1/3/07

A Critical Time For Stocks 12/25/06

Watching The Numbers 12/18/06

Steady As She Goes, Cap'n 12/11/06