Dear Readers,U.S. markets are closed today. Aside from tomorrow’s scheduled half day of trading in the stock market, most U.S. markets will remain closed until Monday morning. We get to enjoy a long holiday weekend courtesy of President Abraham Lincoln who in 1863 set aside the last Thursday of November “as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” FDR had Congress change Thanksgiving to the present 4th Thursday of November. For the entire Lincoln Thanksgiving proclamation Click here.
Little did Lincoln realize, but his proclamation would spur the Swanson brothers to invent the TV Dinner 90 years later. The true tale is told here at this amazing link. But let's hope you're having home roasted turkey today.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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