Macro / Misc.

We believe legislation to take the 90% gambling loss deduction back to 100% is ultimately likely to become law, but finding a legislative vehicle this year may not be easy. Should enactment leak into next…

Despite some bipartisan optimism in the Senate that the Secure and Fair Enforcement Regulation (SAFER) Banking Act, which would provide protections for financial institutions that provide services to the cannabis industry, will be considered this…

We provide our takeaways from a trade and tariff conference call we hosted last week considering tomorrow’s expiration of President Trump’s 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs, though the effective rates have been pushed to August…

While the House is out of session this week but with the Senate still in town, the big news out of Washington this week will be on the trade front, with President Trump’s self-imposed pause…

The House and Senate are in this week but mainly to pass the reconciliation bill and then they will adjourn for the week. Progress has also been made on getting the GENIUS Act, which would…

The House and Senate are both in session this week with the U.S. attack on Iran and reconciliation likely leading the headlines.  President Trump is scheduled to give a speech at the NATO summit in…

The early part of this week will be busy with the Senate Finance Committee expected to release today its version of the reconciliation bill, which includes the important tax and Medicaid/health care portions of the…

Below are our takeaways from our recent conference call on the controversial Section 899 of the reconciliation bill as well as thoughts on related developments and what that might mean for the provision in question….

The big news we expect out of Washington this week, with Congress in session, includes:   A release by the Senate Finance Committee of its tax, Medicaid, and perhaps Medicare mark for the reconciliation bill….

Put us in the camp that the Trump-Musk dust up will have little impact on passage of the reconciliation bill. By last night, there appeared to be an attempt to lower the temperature on both…