President-elect Obama’s choice of Richardson as Secretary of Commerce appears a solid pick by our judgment. Although typically seen as a lightweight cabinet position, the office really is what the President makes of it. Considering Obama’s own ambitious plans, as well as the pressure on him to fix the economy, we think it’s safe to [...]

Last night Barack Obama was on a 60 Minutes interview with no coaching, no teleprompter, and no notes; and he beautifully answered questions regarding the challenges in coming into his administration. (click post to view video) Amongst other things, we learned that he’s been reading a whole lot of briefing papers and that he does [...]

An important aspect of trying to make a buck off of an Obama win is the timing of the matter. His administration will not be able to address all it wants to immediately, therefore synchronizing when to be in and out of sensitive sectors is key. The NY Times has a rough outline of Obama’s [...]

Our writer, Jeff Miller, is also a columnist on Real Money – and through this we have access to the insightful commentary of his colleagues. Detailed below will be several observations by other Real Money writers as of November 5. James Altucher was the first to note that Asian markets were experiencing positive numbers “on [...]

An amazing thing happened today. Financial media all noticed that there was an election going on, and there might be some impact on stocks. Amazing! There are two reasons why this story has been left behind: 1) The crisis in financial markets has created stock movements that overwhelmed any bump that one might get from [...]

The unstable economy really threw a wrench in the gears for us who tried to predict the effects of this upcoming election, but still we try. The good folks over at Market Folly have written an excellent post with detailed positions of Obama and McCain on energy along with specific stocks that could be especially [...]

It’s been a lasting debate in the fields of politics and economic policy as well as on our own electionstocks.com whether the market does better under Democratic or Republican leaders. Very recently, Donald Luskin posted his own theory on the subject in the Wall Street Journal. Young Harvard professor Jeff Frankel rebutted and effectively debunked [...]

John McCain released a statement today announcing that Friday’s debate ought to be postponed in order to better deal with the economic crisis of this past week. The gut reaction by many is that he is simply playing good political strategy. Obama is widely considered to be better economically than McCain and surely he would [...]

Scott Adams took considerable effort to make his survey an objective one that hits on key facts about economic thought. Because of this objective, Adams posted a very well written comment criticizing the validity of his survey (which is quoted below). We recommend you follow up on The Dilbert Blog at dilbert.com/blog to keep up [...]

Scott Adams, the cartoonist best known for his work writing Dilbert, recently took it upon himself to interview 500 economists to see what their views were on who would be better for the economy: John McCain or Barack Obama. Unfortunately, the economists did not reveal any startling revelation or even cross party lines, with Democrats [...]