Victoria Guida

COLUMN: Politics isn't ready for the rise of easy-access gambling platforms, writes our economics correspondent Victoria Guida. "Economic and political realities shaped by decisions [in Washington] seem to be greasing the skids for potentially destructive financial behaviors."

If $10,000 can’t buy you a house, why not gamble it? That might not seem like a sound financial decision, but it’s an increasingly familiar mindset for many young men who are watching prices march higher & feeling like they can’t keep up My latest column www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Consumers have helped keep the economy humming by continuing to spend despite tariff increases, surging oil prices and rising borrowing costs. But there’s a reason people are still feeling gloomy. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The age of the AI personal assistant is here, courtesy of Meta, and it could bring about a reckoning for the global financial system. It’s the latest wake-up call for banks and their regulators about the dangers posed by a swiftly emerging wave of technology www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

Fed's Warsh faces new pressure to hike rates after inflation heats up www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

President Trump’s war in the Middle East for months has thwarted GOP plans to run on pocketbook issues this fall Now, with the midterm elections a mere weeks away, it’s likely too late to stem the political fallout via Ben Lefebvre and me: www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

COLUMN: Will Kevin Warsh squander a huge opportunity? The new Fed chair will have the spotlight at the central bank’s high-profile conference in Jackson Hole. He should use it, writes our @vtg2.bsky.social.

When Kevin Warsh takes the stage in Jackson Hole in his inaugural remarks for the Fed’s annual conference — & his first official speech in his new role— his most important audience is probably the one in the room: his fellow policymakers My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Congress’s new, bipartisan housing law is expected to lower the price of manufactured homes. But the law doesn’t fully address interest rates for the loans on those homes, which often reach near double digits. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Bessent promised to unleash economic fury on Iran that has “never been seen” in U.S. history, the latest project in his ever-growing list of responsibilities At the same time, the team around him keeps shrinking By me, @meganmesserly.bsky.social & Michael Stratford www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Scooplet: Christina Skinner, the Treasury official who oversees FSOC, is leaving to return to academia. Her last day is Friday. “This felt like the right moment to return to Wharton to bring the perspective I gained in government to bear,” she told me subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

The Trump admin has granted preliminary approval for a crypto venture backed by Trump’s family to run a federally chartered trust bank Trump disclosed nearly $600M in income from World Liberty token & equity sales in 2025 www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Always read @vtg2.bsky.social !

SCOOP: Warsh is considering reducing the number of policy meetings the Fed holds each year. He raised the idea at this week's meeting, according to four people with knowledge of the situation

Fed divided over decision to keep rates on hold

Some lawmakers worry the Department of Housing and Urban Development is too understaffed to quickly issue new rules and implement the new housing bill, aimed at making building and buying homes cheaper and easier. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

A team of economists with Dem ties has crafted a health care proposal designed to reduce medical bills. The central idea: capping the amount of money people pay out of pocket in any month. w/ @davidlim.bsky.social www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Some Democratic lawmakers are warning that the Fed's policy of saying less could give Wall Street insiders an unfair edge. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.” — James Madison Happy 250th birthday, USA 🇺🇸

“.. Trump lacks focus,” a former Trump official told me, with palpable frustration. “Trump had the opportunity to be transformational. Instead, he’s going to be transitional at best.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/magazin...

COLUMN: Trump’s economic policy legacy is shrinking. It didn’t have to be this way. The president doesn’t like win-win deals. But he missed a chance to build cross-party support for more populist ideas, writes our @vtg2.bsky.social.

It’s not hard to imagine an alternative world where Trump actively tried to capitalize on his successful scrambling of GOP orthodoxy by securing legislative outcomes no other president could pull off. That’s not the route he’s taken. My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

.@sheilabair.bsky.social warned about the risky mortgage lending practices that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis Now, the former head of the FDIC is warning that today’s regulators are forgetting the lessons of that painful saga My latest: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Bill Pulte, a regulator charged with overseeing the mortgage market, is taking on a second job acting as the country’s top intelligence official — after rebranding his little-known agency into a major political tool for President Trump. Deep dive by Cassandra Dumay: www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

“Gambling feels good right away because it’s the dopamine rush, but it doesn’t build anything.”

What’s the line between gambling and investing? My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Victoria Guida of @politico.com : An underrated aspect of Powell’s legacy is how he pivoted in key moments when there was evidence that the Fed needed to change course. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Next month, I will have been covering the Federal Reserve for 10 years. In my latest column, I reflect a bit on an underrated lesson from Jay Powell’s tenure www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Donald Trump is finally getting his new Federal Reserve chief, after more than a year of frustration with Chair Jerome Powell. But the president still probably won’t secure the one thing he wants most www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

“Kevin Warsh is the dog who caught the car. I say that with great affection and sympathy.” My column dispatch from Warsh’s intellectual home: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Chair Powell says Fed independence is "at risk." "We're having to resort to the courts to enforce our legal — it's not so much independence. It's really the ability to make monetary policy without political considerations ... We've been successful so far, but that's not over."

COLUMN: The president wants Jerome Powell out of the way, but he’s making that outcome less and less likely by the day, writes our economics correspondent Victoria Guida. “Trump seems to be trying to find a way to turn an easy win on the Fed into a long slog of a loss.”

President Trump seems to be trying to find a way to turn an easy win on the Fed into a long slog of a loss. My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

RORY MCILROY WINS THE 2026 MASTERS.

The "incredible zig-zagging employment situation" - my comments to @vtg2.bsky.social at @politico.com on Friday. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

After an extensive search, POLITICO announced today that Jonathan Greenberger will be the organization’s next Global Editor-in-Chief, effective May 1. bit.ly/4tdYtaz

COLUMN: U.S. trading partners are weighing boxing out Trump on trade, writes our @vtg2.bsky.social. Trade ministers from Europe and Asia-Pacific countries will meet on the sidelines of a WTO gathering this week to hammer out priorities for building an alliance that excludes the U.S.

“I’ve seen the United States as a natural leader of the free world,“ former NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen told me. “But if the United States wants to retire from that role, then others will have to take over.” My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Fog of war clouds global rate cut outlook

"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression." Happy 275th birthday, James Madison!

I wonder what Moo Deng is up to these days

Tillis ‘optimistic’ roadblock to Fed chair confirmation will be resolved

I think we are finally seeing the limits of this gambling as described in this @vtg2.bsky.social piece from earlier. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

President Trump’s disruptive policies have left some dents, including serious damage to his approval rating, but by the biggest readings of its health, the U.S. economy largely keeps absorbing what he throws at it. My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

The process and legal fights over paying back import taxes will help shove tariffs back into voters’ minds, as well as provide them an excruciatingly detailed civics lesson in who literally pays the levies. (Hint: it’s not foreign governments.) www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Hassett says Fed staff should be 'disciplined' for reporting the US pays tariff costs