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Washington Update: The Fan-in-Chief
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Unless you have been without power and newspapers for the last 96 hours, you know that on Sunday the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) won their fourth soccer World Cup in the last 28 years.
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Washington Update: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Gerrymandering But Were Too Afraid to Ask
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The U.S. Supreme Court issued a flurry of decisions last week as it closed its 2018-2019 session. While its ruling rejecting the Trump administration’s rationale for a U.S. Census citizenship question will have important repercussions for representation across the U.S., another case also could impact the partisan balance in the lower chamber of Congress … unless voters in a handful of states get a say about it.
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Washington Update: Fed Bashing - A White House Tradition
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James Carville, a strategist to then-Gov. Bill Clinton’s insurgent 1992 campaign for the presidency, famously – and succinctly – captured the essence of the race for the White House with the phrase “it’s the economy, stupid.” As we begin the march towards the twenty-eighth anniversary of President Clinton’s defeat of President George H.W. Bush, Carville’s truism still holds.
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Washington Update: Congress Takes a Break
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Ah, spring break. It’s not only college students who long for a few lazy days come March and April. Congress adjourned last week and now is in the middle of a two-week “district work period,” which most politicos refer to instead as recess. Unlike the students who flock to Miami, though, lawmakers likely aren’t sitting by the pool or even resting much.
Fixed Income Insights
Tax Reform Impacts Call Into Question Coastal Muni Values
Over a year has passed since the implementation of federal tax reform and high tax states are just beginning to feel the implications. As tax returns are beginning to be filed, residents in the high tax coastal jurisdictions may face some unpleasant surprises, resulting in a realization that the municipal bond tax-exemption is still an efficient way to shield taxable income.
Fixed Income Insights
Fixed Income Underdogs are the Champs of 2018
As equity investors slowly put their Dow 25,000 hats in their bottom desk drawer, let’s take a second to talk about the biggest underdogs of 2018…bonds. But can the champs repeat in 2019?