“Threats to Fed independence, a $200 billion mortgage bond purchase, a possible cap on credit-card interest rates and more didn’t stop stocks from hitting records,” Axios reports.
“The fire hose of policy from Washington hasn’t shaken investors, yet, who are happy to keep their eyes on the AI prize… While the Trump administration is ratcheting up policy announcements that could impact markets and the economy, investors are still struggling to look away from the AI trade.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.