Victoria Guida
Economics correspondent and columnist at Politico. Signal: vguida.28
- Reposted by Victoria GuidaBitcoin slides below $70,000 as silver drops 10%: There is a palpable sense of forced deleveraging and margin calls rippling through the more speculative corners of the financial system. #bitcoin #gold #markets
- The odds seem stacked against Kevin Warsh, but the carefully crafted career path he has traveled up to this point suggests he is perhaps uniquely situated to pull off being Trump’s Fed chair A portrait of him, by me & the very talented @ianwardreports.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/magazin...
- Reposted by Victoria GuidaShorter Powell: the economy looks more boring and so we want to be boring too. Please, for the love of god, let us be boring.
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- Treasury Secretary Bessent is redefining the relationship between the administration and federal regulators, which have long enjoyed significant autonomy in supervising banks. Up next: overhauling the post-2008 crisis rulebook www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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- Meet the man who is likely to be one of the most important forces within the central bank no matter who the next Fed chief is. My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
- Reposted by Victoria Guida"A reading of the public record suggests the kind of things we’re talking about here is whether Powell lied when he said there were “no rooftop gardens” when there will in fact be “vegetated roof spaces,” according to documents the Fed submitted to the National Capital Planning Commission."
- Four takeaways from the administration’s investigation of Jay Powell. My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
- Four takeaways from the administration’s investigation of Jay Powell. My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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- Btw, whatever happens Jan. 20, the White House is being explicit about what President Trump is promising
- 🚨 FRIDAY NIGHT NEWS: President Donald Trump on Friday announced that he would put a temporary cap on credit card interest rates with a limit of 10 percent, in line with an idea he floated on the campaign trail. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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- President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will move to ban institutional investors from acquiring more single-family homes and called on Congress to back the initiative, in a bid to bring down the cost of housing. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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- Hassett’s detractors believe he has not been effective as head of the National Economic Council other than as a public messenger for the president’s agenda, playing little part in driving policies www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
- NEWS: White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett is a frontrunner to be President Donald Trump’s choice to chair the Federal Reserve, but some in the administration are questioning whether he’s up to the job. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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- A divided Federal Reserve voted to lower interest rates again on Wednesday, but officials signaled that another cut won’t be immediate, a stance that will ratchet up tensions with President Donald Trump. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
- Trump wants his Fed chair to cut rates. The economy may have other ideas. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
- Asked if he was making support for slashing interest rates a litmus test for his Fed nominee, Trump answered with a quick “yes.”
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- President Donald Trump’s future Federal Reserve chair was already facing a daunting task. But as he homes in on his ultimate pick, Trump is ratcheting up the tension further for whomever gets the job. My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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- NEWS: The Trump administration is calling on companies and organizations to sever ties with Larry Summers in the wake of new revelations about his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
- President Trump is eagerly awaiting the day he will have a new Fed chair, but in the race to replace Jay Powell, much of the conversation has focused on something that doesn’t feel particularly Trump-y. My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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- “He’s actually weakening the economy by eliminating the very industrial strategy that led, in the past 50 to 100 years, companies like Intel to be born.” I interviewed @mazzucatom.bsky.social for Politico Magazine on Trump’s brand of capitalism www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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- The Fed isn’t getting lots of data during the government shutdown, and the data it does have are confusing. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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- Abundance vs. Populism: A Former White House Aide Wants Democrats to Have It Both Ways My Q&A with @mtkonczal.bsky.social on the politics and policy around affordability: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
- Democrats across the country are going all-in on attacking Trump’s global tariffs. “The time is right for Democrats to lead again on trade,” Colorado Gov. Jared Polis told me. My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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- The Federal Reserve on Wednesday said it is cutting interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point in a bid to protect the weakening job market, a move that is unlikely to end President Donald Trump’s broadsides against the central bank. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
- Reposted by Victoria Guida1/ In a recent article, @conorsen.bsky.social suggested once the pool of unemployed gets big enough, managers will start ramping up layoffs. In the two relevant recessions for which we have JOLTS data, the relevant threshold (to the degree one exists) was around 5%. cc @weisenthal.bsky.social
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- Wall Street has shrugged off President Trump’s attempt to Lisa Cook, even as the matter is destined to reach the Supreme Court. But the Fed’s insulation from the president could eventually hinge on whether investors start to panic. My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
- Stephen Miran, President Donald Trump’s nominee for an open seat on the Federal Reserve, said he would take an unpaid leave of absence from his current role at the White House rather than resign. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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- Much as I love the convenience of streaming services…. I’m kinda ready to bring back Blockbuster
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- The Fed’s response to President Trump’s attempted firing of Lisa Cook is characteristic of the Powell era: the subtlest, least controversial form of resistance. My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
- Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hinted Friday that the Fed might cut interest rates soon but added a subtle bit of context: It’s not because President Donald Trump is pressuring him. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
- Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is in a tense moment — and it’s not only because of the unyielding attacks he’s facing from President Donald Trump over his refusal to cut interest rates www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
- “These are people like me and people like you ... That’s just where they sleep.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...
- In this week’s Morning Money: Capital Risk, I write about a buzzy topic on Wall Street: Treasury’s management of the debt www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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- Admin officials are expanding their list of candidates to replace Fed Chair Powell next year as they search for someone who can garner the trust of both the president and financial markets. More private sector names are also likely to be considered: www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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- “Unfathomable amounts of wealth depend on the integrity of the development process behind the release of these statistics” My Q&A with former Fed official David Wilcox following Trump’s firing of the BLS head www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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- The odds that President Donald Trump will get an interest rate cut soon just went up. But not for the reasons he wants. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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- How investors and CEOs could be blindsided by what’s ahead on tariffs and the Fed By @samjsutton.bsky.social and me, in our debut weekly edition of Morning Money: Capital Risk www.politico.com/newsletters/...
- Mr. Trump goes to the Fed. A curious encounter follows. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
- Deutsche Bank economists find President Trump firing Chair Powell would only save $12B-15B on interest costs through 2027, even if Treasury skews debt issuance to bills, which mature in a year or less (removing Powell would make short-term rates go down & long-term rates go up)
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- What happens next to the Fed may hinge on a counterintuitive question: Can temperate voices persuade Trump that the central bank’s insulation from immediate political pressures — from him — is actually good for him? My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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- My latest column: How the One Big Beautiful Bill departs from decades of GOP rhetoric on taxes www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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- For my latest column, I spoke with Trump chief economist Stephen Miran about the economic effects of tariffs www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
