08/17/2021
Today Kay Hymowitz, New York Post It's not just metaphorical to say that a master's degree is the new bachelor's degree: about 13 percent of people aged 25 and older have a master's. |
William Cohan, NYT Even as the Delta variant surges, it's imperative that the finance industry get back into the office. |
Joe Calhoun, Alhambra Today is the 50th anniversary of the "Nixon shock", the day President Richard Nixon closed the gold window and ended the post-WWII Bretton Woods currency agreement. That agreement, largely a product of John Maynard Keynes, pegged the dollar to gold and most other currencies to the dollar. It wasn't a true gold standard as only |
Marc Chandler, Marc to Market Breaking Down and Making Sense of the Global Capital Markets with Political Economist Marc Chandler |
James Surowiecki, MSNBC Crypto advocates worry that new regulation would defeat the point of decentralized finance. |
Dan Ferris, American Consequences We're all privy to bulls and bears in the market, but there's another pair of financial spirit animals in the economic ecosystem. |
Market Minder, FI With midterms looming, redistricting adds to gridlock—and, in our view, that is good for stocks. |
John Tamny, RCM It's a Silicon Valley truism that there's little point to patenting a good business idea. If it's truly good, it will be roundly rejected. More specifically, the potential of what's a good idea won't be understood. Think about it. If a good idea were already understood, it would no longer be an idea. It would instead be an existing business concept. This basic truth is too often forgotten vis-à-vis China. Supposedly the Chinese are "stealing" our intellectual property, but what could they take? The greatest commercial leaps of tomorrow are concepts wholly dismissed in the present. As for... |
David Simon, Spectator Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market is a biography of Nobel Prize winning economists Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman. |
Donald Boudreaux, AIER "Economics supplies indispensable mental habits and analytical tools for gaining a better understanding of why and how it is that each of us, every moment of every day, enjoy the fruits of the labors and creativity of literally billions of strangers."~ Donald J. Boudreaux |
Jeffrey Tucker, Brownstone My overall impression is that the mask wearing and distancing are entirely performative at this point, just as the fighting in Afghanistan has been for the better part of 15 years – performative in the sense that no one really believes it is working but very real in terms of cost. |
Rob Smith, RCM "I don't understand what went wrong." This is the refrain I have heard the past two days from journalists and other establishment elites concerning the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. I am here to tell you what went wrong and why this happened. Donald Trump was a businessman and a complete product of the private sector. When he approached a problem, his approach was 100% devoted to fixing the problem. When career Washington insiders approach a problem, it has nothing to do with actually fixing the problem, it all has to do with making it appear that they fixed the problem. See the "Paris... |
Derek Horstmeyer, Enterprising Investor How do meme stocks move relative to stock market indices and other meme stocks? |
Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab The bull market in housing over the past year has been astonishing; but pandemic-induced effects are in the rearview, likely signaling some easing ahead. |
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. |
Charles Gasparino, New York Post SEC chief Gary Gensler has been copycatting Sen. Elizabeth Warren's crusade on Wall Street in his bid to be the Department of Treasury boss, Charles Gasparino writes. |
Julia Horowitz, CNN It's a tough moment to predict the future of the travel industry. Just look at Airbnb's stock. |
Eyal Press, New York Times Ethically compromising jobs, like material resources, are not distributed equally. |
Nancy Altman, Hill A robust expansion of Social Security benefits, funded by having millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share, is the best birthday present we could give the program — and ourselves. |
John Buckley, The Examiner Alexis Martin is a young woman who was failed by the system multiple times. |
Sara Morrison, Vox The privacy-first company's invasive approach isn't going over well with many. |
Ron Paul, NYS Today marks 50 years since President Richard Nixon closed the "gold window," ending the ability of foreign governments to exchange United States dollars for gold. Nixon's action severed the last link between the dollar and gold, giving the U.S. a |
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. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Paul Ausick, 24/7 Wall St. A USGS assessment in 2007 estimated that Afghanistan's mineral resources. A few years later, the value of those resources may have been $1 trillion. Now it could be worth three times that amount. |
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. |
Lauren Solberg, Morningstar As value slows down, tech is back in the driver's seat. |
Maxwell Strachan, VICE "iBuyers" are gearing up to grow massively in the coming years, with unforeseen consequences for the U.S. housing market. |
Liz Fosslien, Harvard Business Review In the face of unprecedented turnover and uncertainty, even long-term employees may feel destabilized right now. |
Sky News, MSN Scientists from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, have announced the discovery of a major breakthrough in quantum computing. |
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." |
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