Set It and Forget It!

To kick off our coverage of the build up to the preparation for the planning of the 2008 Yankee Swap we've decided to give you the first in our long series of gift suggestions for the '08 extravaganza.  Today's gift suggestion: stock!  Do you know that if you had planned ahead and bought 20 dollars worth of Apple stock as your Yankee Swap gift on this date in 1998, you could be giving someone over 350$ worth of stock come December 6, 2008?  It's true.  And imagine if you had traded your garbage bag full of Swisher Sweets for that 20 bucks worth of Nintendo Co. Ltd. stock at the first Swap... you'd have, like, 75$ worth of Wii-tastic s-to-the-izzock!  What stock should you think about buying this year for your gift?  Good question, and we here at Perry Street have got you covered with our exhaustively researched market analysis.  Bulls, bears, people from Connecticut... we've looked at all of the major factors that are influencing today's economy and picked the following sure things:

1) Decker Outdoors Corp:  Makers of the world's most conservative, functional, practical, ridiculous fashion trend, the UGG boots, this is a company you can be sure will be there when you're dead.  I mean, it's not like these kinds of fads ever wear themselves out or anything.

2) Halliburton Company: Talk about a stock that's ready to blow up... what, too soon?

3) Atlantic ACM: When VOIP takes off, you'll want to know about it.  When Verizon sells its share of tubes to AT&T, you'll want to know about it.  And when this company goes platinum more times than Hov because of a certain ruggedly handsome face-man, you'll be glad you got in on the IPO.  

Don't worry folks, this is just the beginning of the gift advice.  We plan to practically drown you in suggestions.  Feel free to post your own using the comment spaces below these posts.  Ladies and gentlehumans, start your brains...