November 2020 - Page 2 of 2

Today’s your last day to get in on the stock market’s 2020 easy money.

Consider the following graph, lifted from a recent Forbes article.

Easy Money in One Easy Graph — Stock market returns by president. (**Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.** Source: S&P data © 2020 S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, a division of S&P Global. All rights reserved.)

In case that fine print is too hard for you to read, it shows the trend from 1926 to the present day for ROI (return on investment) of $1 in the stock market, pre-election to post-election. And the Y-axis goes from $1 to $10,000. Yes, you heard me. Ten. Thousand. Dollars.

The moral of the story? Markets hate uncertainty. Therefore, market volatility is usually high, pre-election. But after election results are known? Volatility and uncertainty both go down, while the market over all goes up pretty much no matter who wins, Red or Blue. Don’t believe me? Look at that graph again. So, if you’re in a buying mood, today’s your day for easy money. And if not? Well, hey, there’s always real estate – as outlined in a previous post here.

But remember…

“Past performance is no guarantee of future results.”

You been warned.

We don’t get many trick-or-treat-ers up here at the top of the hill in Roxborough Park. Alright, we haven’t gotten ANY in the five years we’ve lived here. But every year, hope springs eternal on the blue-moon night we turn our clocks back. We put out a big bowl of Snickers and Milky Ways and no one comes. Truth to tell, I’ll end up eating it all myself long before Thanksgiving.

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All Hallow’s Eve – or Halloween, if you prefer – was designed as a way for us to thumb our noses at the ghouls and demons that otherwise would torment us the night before All Saints Day. That’s the day we honor those who have died and gone on before us in the faith. So, Halloween’s sort of an anti-holiday. It’s supposed to be scary and in-your-face, not pretty or nice. In that spirit, the award for best Halloween display in our neighborhood goes to this one.

Trick-or-treat-ers

And if that’s not in-your-face enough for you,

ghouls and demons,

consider this.

In case you were wondering, the hat says: “Geezers Rule.”

Hey, it could be worse: Last year I was in L.A. on Halloween.

Post is here. Talk about scary.

Trick-or-Treat.

Boo!