05/29/2021
Today Market Minder, Fisher Investments Despite its age and status, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is a flawed index. |
Sarah Hansen, Forbes The White House will release a $6 trillion budget plan amid complaints from the GOP about wasteful spending and ruinous debt, but their guy also added to the national debt big time. |
Philip Klein, National Review There are some who embrace a school of economics holding that high levels of debt don't matter. We're now entering an era that will put that premise to the test. |
Hayes Brown, MSNBC Let's cut the charade here, people. |
Anna North, Vox The pandemic transformed work. A lot of employers haven't caught up. |
Christopher Baecker, RCM My daughters continually make me proud. From top academic standings, to leadership positions in extracurricular activities, the hits keep rolling. I was particularly stoked recently when, not only did my oldest start a job at Chick Fil A, but her sister told me she was going to apply to Home Depot. "It's certainly a (labor) seller's market," I told her. |
Amanda Cage & Maureen Conway, Hill It is time to do better for essential workers and the underemployed who are working several jobs to make ends meet. |
Gregory van Kipnis, AIER "Understanding government data for what they are and what they are not is vital to understanding the impossibility of targeting the cost of living, even though the Fed is targeting a crafted measure of price inflation." ~ Gregory van Kipnis |
Michael de la Merced, New York Times The oil giant's unexpected boardroom defeat by an activist investor hinged on a few key moments. |
Henry Miller & Drew Kershen, Washington Examiner A very bad regulation is coming. |
Clare Duffy, CNN A series of major digital security breaches over the past year are serving as a wake-up call to Corporate America about the need to invest in cybersecurity. |
Seth Berenzweig & John Tamny, Capitol Brief Seth Berenzweig & John Tamny discuss John's latest article in Forbes in which we've seen this act before when the railroad industry changed the world and the... |
Jeffrey Kleintop, Charles Schwab While it's very early to say the rise in inflation has passed, there are signs that the fastest part of the rebound in inflation might soon be over. |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Financial Network Happy birthday to the Dow! Commonwealth CIO Brad McMillan celebrates the index and what it has meant for the stock market and investors. |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Schwab Retirement planning is important for everyone, but retiring military have unique planning challenges. Here's why. |
Ethan Yang, AIER "Unilaterally and arbitrarily shutting down all of economic and social life was never part of the solution, nor should it ever be. Covid-19 has been the first test for these experimental lockdown policies and no rational observer should look back at the results and conclude that this is all... |
Russell Redenbaugh & James Juliano, Kairos Capital Management |
Jeffrey Buchbinder, LPL Financial Research Monday, May 24, 2021 Top Story Stock Market Gains Likely To Slow |
Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca, PS The Biden administration's ambitious spending and investment programs are precisely what the US economy needs to thrive in the twenty-first century. Best of all, the economic strategy now being pursued at the national level has already proven highly successful in the country's wealthiest, most dynamic state. |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar From institutions to individual investors. |
Eric Boehm, Reason Industrial policy is the wrong answer to a problem that mostly doesn't exist. |
Neil Irwin, NYT For all the administration's focus on transformational policies, it's not forecasting an outburst of economic potential. |
Bryce Coward, Knowledge Leaders The US dollar is on the verge of breaking down to the lowest level since 2014. This is not all that surprising. After all, the US money supply continues to grow at a rapid pace relative to other countries and quantitative easing is likely to... |
Hillel Italie, The Christian Science Monitor Independent bookstores proved surprisingly resilient during the year of lockdown with the help of new loans and participation in online markets. Now owners are taking stock from lessons learned and rethinking what it means to be a "bookstore" and whom they serve. |
Steven Malanga, City Journal Unions recorded steep membership declines last year, especially in states with the severest pandemic shutdowns. |
Eric Compton, MStar Several funds see value in technology, energy, and communication services. |
Stephen S. Roach, Project Syndicate The US Federal Reserve is insisting that recent increases in the price of food, construction materials, used cars, personal health products, gasoline, and appliances reflect transitory factors that will quickly fade with post-pandemic normalization. But what if they are a harbinger, not a "noisy" deviation? |
Rebecca Leber, Vox Exxon, Shell, and Chevron are under siege in the courtroom and the boardroom. |
Marshall Auerback, The Nation China's warnings on the use of digital currencies suggest that the long-awaited official sector crackdown has begun—and it's a good thing too. |
William Voegeli, Claremont Review Activist government's crisis of competence. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Jana Kasperkevic, ProMarket Economist Daniel Cohen explores the emergence of the digital society and its never-ending pursuit for growth. |
Adwait Patil, Digg "It has been hard to convey, through anecdotes or data, how bizarre the US housing market has become," Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman said on Twitter. |
Caroline Delbert, PM These aren't your average reactors. |
Ian Birrell, UnHerd Scientists and the media eagerly denounced credible evidence as a conspiracy theory |
Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund Long-term thinking is easier to believe in than accomplish. |
Christine Benz, Morningstar These three maneuvers will tend to deliver a higher tax benefit than writing a check and deducting it, and may even improve your portfolio. |
Nick Maggiulli, Of Dollars And Data Clearing up misconceptions on Millennial wealth and who is actually struggling in the generational divide. |
|
|
|
|
