How do politics and the markets intersect, and which policies should actually matter to investors?

In our latest webinar, Michael Townsend, Charles Schwab’s Managing Director of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, led us through an informative discussion on how current events and political developments in Washington, D.C. are affecting the markets.

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro

002:35 Lay of the Land: Senate, House of Representatives, & Midterm Elections

Biggest Policy Issues Affecting the Markets: Geopolitics & Federal Reserve

05:56 Geopolitics

11:35 Federal Reserve

18:50 Congress: Government Shutdown, Affordability, Crypto, AI, Prediction Markets

27:19 Regulatory Actions

34:45 Midterm Elections

39:44 Markets & Midterm Elections

41:47 Change in Control of House, Senate and/or White House

42:49 Markets & the Political Parties

Q&A

46:07 In regards to retirement savings, Social Security, Medicare and retirement policy overall, any new developments there that should be on the radar of investors?

49:09 Are there any other tax developments that individual investors or business owners should be watching? And where do you see the greatest potential for legislative change?

51:03 When it comes to federal deficits and national debt, do you feel like at this point there’s any appetite to address that? Or where do you view that from a legislative standpoint?

54:07 If you think about resources that are out there to navigate periods of political uncertainty that are non-biased, is there anything you can point to investors to look at to filter out the noise?

56:08 Outro