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 very special Dividend Cafe. My name is David Bonson, and I am the managing partner at the Bonson Group, and Dividend

Cafe has existed for now 16 years for the purpose of bringing you weekly market commentary,

and every four years for the purpose of doing this edition, this very issue dealing with the pending election and what

we believe to be the implications and ramifications in the economy, in markets, what it means

for investors. There is a lengthy written version of this week's Dividend Cafe that you may be interested in if you want

the charts and if you want to have it written out and spelled out and so forth. This recording,

the podcast, the video is not a just reciting of the written dividend cafe. So again, the medium you prefer is the medium you prefer,

but I just want to make sure you know what's out there, what the options are. And I want to

dive into this. It was an extensive project to write this, but a lot of the extensiveness of that

was in introductory preamble comments. That is something I was not

doing when I first began doing election commentary when I was managing money. 25 years ago,

this was not the same environment. Republicans and Democrats disagreed on almost everything.

There were bitter campaign battles took place. And of course, literally 24 years ago, we had the

closest election we had basically had in modern times in the Bush v. Gore situation that ended up in a month-long dispute out of Florida.

So close elections, contested elections, big policy disagreements, candidates not maybe not

even liking each other a lot. That's all been there. But this is just different and I think

everybody knows it. I think you know what I mean.

I don't think I have to even elaborate a lot.

And there is a sense in which I, as a self-avowed, very transparent and very unashamed,

lifetime conservative, who grew up as a very young person, very fond of Ronald Reagan,

but mostly very influenced under certain pillars of movement conservatism, a kind of ideology

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