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 [...]

As Obama’s economic team continues to work out the details of their stimulus package, they hint at a multitude of market sectors that could receive a significant boost from their actions during the administration. David Newman from Seeking Alpha notes that Obama’s frequent promise to improve our information superhighway could be realized very shortly. Some [...]

Our own Jeff Miller was checking out a CNBC story on Bloomberg.com when he found some strong support for aggressive plans that Obama has in the works for the housing market. What follows below is his post from earlier today on TheStreet.com’s Real Money. Obama and Housing 12/16/2008 12:25 PM EST President-elect Obama is meeting [...]

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. [...]

In light of Obama’s new news on possible plans for infrastructure, technology stocks like Cisco, Ciena, and Akmai, could be a new Obama stocks as discussed on CNBC’s Fast Money. Also on his list of sectors for improvement is alternative energy, a topic that has been covered in detail many other times on this website. [...]

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 [...]

There is a post on Yahoo finance, citing our frequent colleague Mr. Altucher, with a list of dirt-cheap infrastructure stocks that are bound to go up under President Obama. These look like great picks to us – though further research is necessary on a prospective time-frame to pick these up in time for them to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Recently it seems like infrastructure has been thrust into the spotlight, with roads in disrepair and inadequate levees leading to terrible flooding. The Angry Bear blog commented on this phenomenon the other day. They mentioned some of the key politicians who are pushing the issue, and also mentioned a nice definition of infrastructure from Mostly [...]