It's Monday, January 31st, and this is market foolery. I'm Matt Greer sitting in for Chris Hill today, and joining me in studios our team of Motley

Full Analysts for a million dollar portfolio, Ron Gross, from income investor James Early, and from global gains, Tim Hanson.

Guys, welcome.

And that's nice to have you, Mac.

Okay, guys, we're going to talk some Exxon.

We're going to talk some Amazon.

We're going to talk some Netflix, but we've got to begin with the situation in Egypt.

Today marked the seventh day of anti-government protest in Egypt.

Opposition leaders are calling for a million people to take to the streets of Alexandria in Cairo tomorrow.

Now, Tim, this is an incredibly fragile situation.

We're a business show, we talk a lot about how the markets hate uncertainty,

and what we've got here is a whole lot of uncertainty.

Yes this you know brings up a question that I've asked before which is you know if you're an

investor what do you prefer to invest in? Would you rather invest in a democracy or a dictatorship?

And Egypt, for all intents and purposes up till today still, is pretty much a dictatorship.

And there, as an investor, there are things to like about dictatorship.

You know, there's a reason why China has the most premium valuation of any

major market in the world. It's because there's certainty you know what you can expect, you know

ostensibly what the government might do next even though they have some arbitrary and

capricious powers but you know I think the argument here that these are

Shinsack exchanges down sharply since this crisis began foreign investors in

particular are pulling money but at the end of the day democracy is much better

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