Welcome to the Dividing Cafe weekly market commentary focused on dividends in your portfolio and dividends in your understanding of economic life.

Well, hello and welcome to this week's Dividing Cafe podcast, and hopefully some of you are watching on the video because I think it's going to be a lot more interesting this week for video people than podcasts. I'm not going to do our normal

deal this week and the reason why is that the whole entire dividend cafe this week is dedicated

to a 17 page white paper I wrote on the election and all the political implications right now here in 2020

to the economy, to the investment landscape and specific portfolio risks and opportunities.

So on Monday, we're going to do a good hour-long podcast video about that whole subject,

and you can participate in it live on Zoom,

or we will get the link out afterwards, the replay.

But rather than go through all that content here on Friday

and then be redundant with what we're doing Monday,

and because today is September 11th and the 19th anniversary of this tragic event,

as I was walking through in the city here this morning,

I stopped and decided to record here.

And I just want to make a couple quick comments.

Now, ironically, I'm sitting here right now on 6th

Avenue or as no New Yorker calls it Avenue of the Americas and at the corner in between 54th and

55th Street. And right here in this courtyard, this is the Alliance Bernstein building, and you

can see the whole tall deal there, this whole beautiful patio courtyard area just kind of opened up after quarantine where for a whole year I was a tenant in this building here our Boston group offices were here until we took our new space

earlier in the year and of course we have we utilize science Bernstein for a lot of our tax-free bond management.

So we know this building in this area very well.

This courriards quite beautiful, but it wasn't the entire time I was in the building.

It was under construction.

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