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

Thank you as always, Erica. Thank you, Scott, for joining me here again today. This is a really special edition of these national calls.

Of course, we started doing out of the COVID pandemic back in the spring. And now today we want to

dedicate the full hour. We're going to go an extra 15 or 20 minutes longer than normal around this

very special topic of the 2020 election. If you have not received it,

I am holding in my hand a very special white paper that I've been working on kind of throughout the

summer and I've referenced it on these calls. And my co-host here today, Scott Gam has read it

and perhaps many of you have as well.

We sent it out as our Dividing Cafe on Friday.

But if you have not received it, please email us, and we will get to a copy.

It's available just in our normal Dividendoncafe.com from Friday, and we also have a link to

the printable PDF if you prefer it that way, and it has

the graphics, and it can be printed to be read at your leisure, and you're certainly welcome

to share it with whoever you want. This is not a client-only piece, like some of the things we put out.

So like this white paper that I have in front of me, our call today will be dedicated to the subject of the 2020 election.

And as I am very fond of doing, I get to turn this over to my friend and colleague, Scott Gam, who is going to guide us through a discussion of these things and perhaps grill me certainly drill further into the

pertinent areas of what this 2020 election season means in the economy and the implications it has

for investors. Scott, welcome once again. Well, thank you, David. Great to be with you, as always.

50 days until the election from today.

I did not realize that.

50 days.

So depending on one's outlook, it's either going to go by in what feels like three days

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