In the spirit of the holiday season, we’re taking a break from our regularly scheduled “Inside MVR” column this week. We’ll be back next week with our normal column.

Many thanks for your loyal support in what has been an extremely trying year. We look forward to providing you with many more profitable investment recommendations in 2009.

Meanwhile, enjoy this time with your family and best wishes from the Mt. Vernon Research team.

Karim Rahemtulla