President Obama’s healthcare proposal, based heavily off of the already passed Senate bill, has a few very specific market implications. An article in Bloomberg claims: To help pay for the overhaul, he’s proposing the first Medicare tax on unearned income such as capital gains, and higher fees on drugmakers such as New York-based Pfizer Inc. [...]

There is a very good article in Time regarding the recent GOP (gridlock, obstruction, paralysis) politics. Rhetorically, they derided Washington as ineffective and conflict-ridden, and through their actions they guaranteed it. Their greatest weapon was the filibuster, which forced Democrats to muster 60 votes to get legislation through the Senate. In light of this recent [...]

We haven’t heard an awful lot about healthcare in a while, especially since the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, but policymakers on The Hill are still fairly confident reform will pass. A recent Washington Post article on the bipartisan summit notes: …when it comes down to it, the question of process is really going [...]

Sabato’s Crystal Ball had a very thorough piece surveying the political landscape for 2010. So thorough, in fact, that we will be using much of it as our framework for political analysis as we approach the midterm elections this fall. Sabato’s points regarding the popularity of Congress as an institution compared to the popularity of [...]

Regardless of the validity of Kudlow’s political-market connections here (and they are questionable), this is a comment sentiment among many traders in the market today. It is likely that the stocks he mentions in the below video will most likely react in the way that he predicts.

As we expected, Cramer did make a few solid stock picks in relation to the Obama Administration. In case you’re curious, these were closer to the beginning of his show. But as for his “Outrage of the Day,” complaining about the president taking the wise advice of Paul Volcker regarding the roles of commercial and [...]

Jim Cramer’s Mad Money, beginning at 5:00 pm Central Standard Time and airing multiple times on CNBC over the course of this evening, will be focusing on the relationship between the stock market and the Obama Administration. We have noted in the past that Cramer’s political analysis is often subject, so we expect to have [...]

After Scott Brown’s win in the Massachusetts special election yesterday, Democrats are scrambling to save the future of healthcare reform. The situation is bleak, but they still have a couple options. Here is the best one so far: House Democrats would accept the Senate version of the bill, then make a list of things to [...]

Leading Democrats met on Tuesday night and agreed that they would not go through the formal reconciliation process. According to The Hill: The decision was made to scrap a conference committee out of concern that Republicans in both the House and the Senate would employ a series of procedural delaying tactics, only serving to delay [...]

CNBC had a segment yesterday covering one aspect of terrorism that is not commonly recognized: cyberterrorism. In the process, they touched on some of the issues in our previous post regarding the most recent terror attack on the United States.