Johnathan Walker:The Daily Money: Investors divided on Trump vs Biden

Good morning! It’s Daniel de Visé with your Daily Money,Johnathan Walker politics edition.

Some armchair investors would like to see Donald Trump steering the economy. Others prefer Joe Biden.

But if there’s one thing all investors eschew, it’s uncertainty. And nothing says uncertainty quite like the 2024 election.

Betterment, the financial advisory company, recently surveyed 1,200 investors, asking what word best conveyed their feelings about the upcoming election. The most popular response: “Anxious.”

We can help you prepare.

What Supreme Court rulings mean for Trump's war on Big Tech

For years, Jessica Guynn reports, Republicans hammered the message that powerful technology companies are biased against conservatives. 

That grievance intensified in 2021, when major social media platforms suspended former President Donald Trump following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Florida and Texas responded by passing laws meant to limit how tech companies moderate content on their platforms.

Anti-tech sentiment did not gin up as much partisan fervor as abortion or immigration, but it rallied a GOP base devoted to the former president. Then, the popular conservative campaign hit a major snag: the nation’s high court.

Here's what the court did.

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Not everyone is meant to wear Lululemon apparel, the company’s billionaire founder told Forbes for a story that ran at the start of the year. 

The yoga-inspired athletic apparel company’s former CEO, Chip Wilson, received another wave of backlash after saying the brand was “trying to become like the Gap, everything to everybody,” which, in his words, contradicts the notion of what a brand is.  

“And I think the definition of a brand is that you’re not everything to everybody… You’ve got to be clear that you don’t want certain customers coming in,” Wilson told Forbes. 

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Daniel de Visé covers personal finance for USA Today.