Markets shrugged off the Justice Department investigation headlines linked to Fed Chair Powell—stocks barely budged. Seems counterintuitive at first, but dig into the data and the pattern becomes clear. History shows that regulatory or political pressure on the Federal Reserve rarely translates into immediate stock market selloffs. Why? Because investors focus on actual policy outcomes, not the noise around them. The real driver remains Fed policy actions themselves—rate decisions, quantitative measures, inflation trajectory. When pressure mounts without changing the policy course, markets have proven resilient. This dynamic matters for anyone tracking asset correlations. Understanding how traditional markets absorb policy uncertainty can help explain similar resilience (or volatility) patterns we see across different asset classes.