Business & Finance · November 3, 2026

Wall Street braces as voters head to high-stakes polls

In an archival video surfacing on social media, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos describes the mental model he used to leave his stable career on Wall Street to start his company. Calling it the "regret minimization framework," Bezos explains how projecting himself to age 80 helped him ignore short-term financial losses, such as a forfeited annual bonus, in favor of long-term ambition. Meanwhile, current market activity shows Wall Street analysts monitoring midterm elections, noting that historical data often points to stock market gains following elections as political uncertainty subsides, regardless of the party in power.