After one of the most chaotic campaign cycles in modern history, the 2024 election is finally behind us. While the polls largely had President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in a dead heat, the final outcome was decisive. Trump continues to “defy political gravity,” as one of our experts noted and came out […]
A look at some of the key Senate races that could be the deciding factor in the upcoming 2022 Midterm elections.
Why the outcome of the Virginia Governor race isn’t necessarily the best predictor of the 2022 mid-term congressional gains and losses.
Financial services expert and Cogent Managing Director Dave Oxner recently spoke with The Hill, Bloomberg, Politico Influence, and MarketWatch about why those directly and indirectly affected by the GameStop and Robinhood stock frenzy need to be prepared to be hit by the congressional spotlight. Excerpts from his conversations: “This brings in so many populist issues from anti-Wall Street, anti-Big Tech. Those worlds […]
Managing Director Dave Oxner discusses GameStop, Robinhood and Congress There are but a handful of moments over the past 15-years when I can recall the equity markets remaining the sustained focus of front page news. Social media mentions of “Wall Street” and “investigation” or “regulation” are up 2,000% since last week and among members of Congress, up 1,000% over the same period, with a near even divide between […]
Cogent Managing Director Dave Oxner spoke with The New York Times to further explain his thoughts regarding government interventions in the form of bailouts.
The past few weeks have felt more like months to many of us. Each day brings multiple, extraordinary headlines about the various impacts from and reactions to the spread of the coronavirus. Empty stadiums, shuttered museums, motionless cruise ships and now quarantined policymakers have jarred the public and laid a foundation for panic that will […]
Business groups try to avoid partisan crossfire
Wells Fargo hired Cogent Strategies to work on policy issues affecting banking institutions. David Oxner, former policy adviser to Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), and Randall Gerard, former staff assistant on the Senate Commerce Committee, will work on the account. Read more here.
Wells Fargo has signed on Cogent Strategies for additional Washington coverage. It wants Cogent to handle a broad range of policy issues impacting the banking sector. Managing directors David Oxner, former head of government relations at the Securities Industry & Financial Markets Assn., and Randall Gerard, staffer on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, handle […]
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