The Dow Jones Indexes revealed an index of stocks and sectors that are expected to receive a substantial portion of the taxpayer money from the stimulus package. The index is split into six sectors: “Alternative Energy, Construction & Materials, Energy Grid, Environment, Technology, Telecom/Internet” – which is surprisingly close to the very same categories we [...]

We all know that the stimulus package is going to be the big spending bill of the year, making it the ‘pork barrel’ – so to speak. The fact that there is going to be quite limited appropriations of cash for the rest of 09, this does a lot for us in determining the timing [...]

In considering Obama’s plans for increased infrastructure (i.e. construction), Altucher has pinpointed a couple stocks very likely to have a growth reminiscent of what we used to see during the ‘Dot com’ boom in the nineties: ASTE and LNN. Both of these stocks have 5x cash flow potential. Astec Industries works in paving and construction [...]

A rather enlightening Time magazine article notes that Obama is the first president to have spent the majority of his life in an urban environment since Teddy Roosevelt. With this, he has a fresh take on city policy and has even established a new cabinet position to deal with this area of government. Since Obama [...]

We are still experiencing massive amounts of volatility right now, and new news from Obama only adds fuel to the fire. We might sound like a broken record here, saying that timing is the key to picking Obama stocks, but getting into the market for this reason in this extreme period is a bad idea. [...]

There’s been a universal consensus that Obama’s aggressive new plans for developing American infrastructure would be good for the construction sector, but so far we’ve been rather short on specifics. Below we have Sham Gad’s observations on the recent two day rally in the construction sector. So far the market believes Obama’s infrastructure job creation [...]

While we’ve already had five different posts about the Democratic debate the other day, bear with us one more time to revisit it to pick out a little talked about issue (at least in the debates): education. There was only one question about education in the debate and it dealt with the No Child Left [...]