What Will The Presidential Election Do To The Market?

Recently a lot of our clients have asked us what the November election will do to the market and what they should do to prepare for it. The short answer is: for the long term, nothing; for the short term, buckle up, and be ready for some market volatility regardless of the election result. Even in the short term, if you observe past presidential elections, out of seven times that the market decreased post-election, the U.S. was either in the Great Depression, a recession, WWII, th...