08/16/2021
Today John Tamny, Forbes Fifty years ago today President Nixon turned the broad misunderstanding of money among economists into policy. |
Arthur Laffer, New York Sun The formula to ensure prosperity is simple: Add a low-rate, broad-based flat tax to spending restraint, free trade, and sound money, and there you have it. The Great Depression was born out of xenophobic protectionism, embodied in the 1930 passage of |
Niall Ferguson, Bloomberg After Richard Nixon scrapped Bretton Woods, the U.S. currency's exorbitant privilege only grew — because the U.S. embraced innovation, not regulation. |
Elisabeth Dellinger, Fisher Soccer player gets paid in cryptocurrency. Internet explodes. |
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times With the U.S. economy on the line, the GOP again threatens to block an increase in U.S. debt limit. |
Andrew Wilford, RCM Ever since ProPublica, a progressive news organization, somehow got access to a collection of confidential taxpayer information, it has blasted out a series of half-baked exposés intended to give the impression of shady back-room deals and endemic corruption cooked into the tax code. But once one looks past the smoke and mirrors, it becomes clear that ProPublica is grasping at straws to present as revelatory information that we already knew. |
Paul Katzeff, IBD Coming soon: annuities in your 401(k) plan. This will add a major power tool to your retirement planning kit. But should you buy one? |
Russ Wiles, Arizona Republic The new federal guidelines focus on potential conflicts of interest and what obligations your adviser owes you to help you make wise financial choices |
Ann Carrns, New York Times A new report measures the "return on investment" offered by various higher education programs. |
Kim Iskyan, American Consequences No matter how well-meaning the Paris Climate Accord, Big Oil as we know it will persist for a lot longer than everyone thinks. |
Bill Pascoe, The Examiner The Biden administration this month launched its most diabolical attack yet on our freedoms, and it is likely to get away with it because congressional Republicans either don't understand the stakes or are too timid to stand up and fight. |
Sid Mohasseb, The Hill The Great Resignation, and the subsequent shift to small business creation, has come at a time when America needs it most. |
Kathy Jones & Christina Shaffer, CS Although the prospect of the Federal Reserve tapering its bond purchases has unsettled markets in the past, we expect it to be more orderly this time around. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Schwab Working longer is just about always a financial plus, but there's more to consider. |
Christopher Sheldon, KKR Credit The market will continue to keep investors in suspense. |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Financial Network What's the story with inflation? Commonwealth CIO Brad McMillan evaluates the numbers to determine where inflation is coming from—and where it's going. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Rani Molla, Vox Working motherhood is getting harder. Let's fix that. |
Michelle Celarier, II "Trading options was addictive, like cocaine," says one investor. "It was instant gratification." |
Quinn Myers, Mel Magazine What could possibly go wrong? |
Margaret Giles, Morningstar SPACs and other new companies may not be the best way to capitalize on growing EV adoption. |
Jeanna Smialek, New York Times Frantic caterers, $200,000 weekends: The wedding industry is on fire, bringing spending, and bottlenecks. |
Emily Parker, CNN Business We may soon be living in a CBDC world. And if America stays on the sidelines, it could miss its chance to influence what that world looks like. |
Ryan Yu, CS Monitor Britney Spears calls her case "abusive," and her dad agreed to step down Thursday. Critics say conservatorships facilitate elder abuse and undercut disability rights. |
Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution The Afghanistan war was an epic disaster. Nothing good came of it. The least we can do as we evacuate, however, is to help all the Afghanis who helped us and who are now under death threat from the Taliban. But our record on Afghan refugees is shameful. |
Maxwell Strachan, VICE "iBuyers" are gearing up to grow massively in the coming years, with unforeseen consequences for the U.S. housing market. |
Pedro de Noronha, Evergreen Gavekal Bears and bulls sit on both sides of virtually every debate. Bitcoin is no different and, in fact, might be the modern-day posterchild for pontificators and investors waging an age-old argument around intrinsic "value." |
David Merkel, The Aleph Blog Valuations are high, and the Fed is tightening, even if they say they are not doing so. |
Peter Suderman, Reason Work, not dependency, was what lifted many people up out of poverty. |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense Make all student loans at 0% interest. |
John Seewer, Associated Press Going to the gym was always part of Kari Hamra's routine until last year's government-ordered shutdowns forced her to replace the workouts with daily rides on her Peloton stationary bike. |
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