What are the economic stakes tied to the outcome of this November’s US Presidential election? Minds will differ, but surely the answer is somewhere north of zero. Unfortunately, monitoring the political factor in real time can be a messy and mind-numbing affair, thanks to a sea of commentary and reportage—most of which is little more than guesses and intuition repackaged as serious analysis. But if you’d like to cut through the noise and focus on the numbers to develop a relatively objective assessment of how the political winds are trending, The Capital Spectator recommends the following two-step daily regimen that takes all of 60 seconds.
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