Welcome to the Dividend Cafe, weekly market commentary focused on dividends in your portfolio

and dividends in your understanding of economic life.

Hello and welcome to this week's Dividend Cafe brought to you from the beautiful Newport Beach Studio.

My name is David Bonson. I'm the managing partner here at the

Bonson Group, where every Friday we attempt to bring you some new investment wisdom, some sort of

macroeconomic perspective, and most importantly, a practical takeaway of what it may mean to you, either as a citizen wondering

what is happening in the economic affairs of our country and our world, or more particularly

as an investor who desires to see financial markets attached to one's own financial goals,

needs, and solutions. The Dividing Cafe a few weeks ago was devoted to a special issue. I've done it now every four years for

quite some time around the election. And what has happened out of that issue, which has been

very well trafficked, both the video, the podcast

listens, and particularly the written version. There's a lot of questions have come in.

And I think that when you're addressing a lot of topics around the election that include the

politics of it, one's expectation, certain policies that might be important

to people, ramifications out of either certain policies or a broad policy portfolio,

in just the general direction of what it could mean, whether it's for the economy or the

culture at large, the nation.

And obviously, not only is there all of these different areas of interest, but in a moment of

pretty heightened emotion and passions and opinions, but generates a lot of differing kind of

questions or whatnot, it can go in a lot of different directions.

And it's hard for me to think I know exactly what people are asking about

and try to address those things after the fact.

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