This post is a follow up to the New Year post: Four Stocks for the New Year

Its amazing how much can change in just one quarter (especially a quarter like Q1 2009). When this friendly competition began, markets looked as if they might be recovering from the worst of the financial crisis - we were actually at least two months away from that bottom. The country had a newly elected administration with high hopes for a new direction. That new direction has since taken many twists and turns and has at times been quite frightening.