What the Election Portends for Dividends

No matter who winds up in the White House in January 2017, look for dividends to come under pressure.

I say that not because I know what’s going on in the heads of any of the declared candidates (or even the undeclared Michael Bloomberg), but because political and economic trends are shifting tectonic-like in that direction. Let’s start with the economics first because that becomes the basis of the political.