fundamentals

Despite these risks, market experts suggest investors should focus on the economic environment and company fundamentals, as political factors tend to have a short-lived impact on the stock market and policy changes require time to be implemented.

Political science fundamentals would tell us that this was a "change" election year — people think the nation is heading in the wrong direction, the incumbent president is unpopular, and people's personal economic situation is stressed — but it was hard to know whetherpeople would prefer to "stay the course" or "change," because Trump was also a deeply unpopular president.

The business fundamentals of Truth Social have so far been untethered from its company’s stock performance, and I am not foolish enough to take a guess at when that dissonance will end.

The American political and media class, Jennings argued, had ignored the fundamentals of inflation and “people feeling like they were barely able to tread water.”

I believe we all knew that, but what an endorsement has allowed mainstream publications to do is make a case not just for candidates but for values; an endorsement for Harris signaled a belief in fact and in democracy, not to mention highlighting the important connection between journalism and those two fundamentals.