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Election 2024: Insights from an Insider
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
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Want a Wall Street take on the upcoming election?
This is your opportunity to gain expert insights from Daniel Clifton, Partner & Head of Policy Research at Strategas.
Topics covered include:
- pathways to victory for each presidential candidate
- investment implications based on the election outcome and enacted policies
- the significance of the debates, including the typically overlooked VP debate
- anticipated plans to address the deficit
- whether tariffs are inflationary and their market impact
- the likelihood of the unrealized capital gains proposal being enacted
- how the election results will influence the 2017 tax legislation set to expire in 2025
About Daniel Clifton
Daniel Clifton is a Partner and Head of Policy Research for Strategas Securities. In this capacity, Mr. Clifton evaluates the financial market implications of policy and political developments. This includes analyzing tax, trade, infrastructure, healthcare, energy, defense and other policy initiatives to determine how public policy changes impact the economy and financial markets for institutional investors.
Daniel leads Strategas’ Washington policy research team, which has been ranked as one of the top policy research teams on Wall Street for 14 consecutive years according to Institutional Investor. Mr. Clifton is also a top ranked analyst in the category of Tax and Accounting policy.
Currently, Daniel is ranked as the top Independent research analyst on Wall Street, across all research verticals, according to the same Institutional Investor survey.
Mr. Clifton’s research on the interaction between policy, elections, and financial markets is widely cited in the media and Daniel is a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business.
Prior to joining Strategas, Mr. Clifton was Executive Director of the American Shareholders Association (ASA), a non-partisan, non-profit organization which analyzes public policy affecting shareholders. Daniel also worked on tax policy issues prior to the ASA and has been involved in every major tax policy change over the past twenty years. Prior to moving to Washington, Mr. Clifton served as a senior staff member in two gubernatorial administrations working on economic and fiscal policy issues.
Mr. Clifton received both his BA in Urban Planning and his MS in Public Policy from Rutgers University where he was a Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics and a Harold Martin Fellow for Public Policy.