02/25/2021
Today Christy Bieber & Maurie Backman & Katie Brockman, MF A hefty retirement nest egg is essential to a secure future. Unfortunately, far too many people simply don't end up with enough invested to support themselves after paychecks stop coming. The good news is, if you're behind on retirement savings, you don't have to resign yourself to a life full of financial worry in your later years. There are steps you can take to turn things around. To help you get started, three Motley Fool retirement experts share how they'd fix a shortfall and get back on track if they'd saved too little. |
Anneken Tappe, CNN The national unemployment rate is masking how much some groups are still struggling in the pandemic economy. That's why the Federal Reserve looks at more than just the average jobless numbers to determine the nation's economic health. |
Marc Joffe, The Hill An ill-timed and poorly targeted measure is unlikely to substantially move the dial. |
Lili Pike, Vox These 3 policies can bring back jobs, fight climate change, and boost Biden's popularity. |
Ryan Cooper, The Week Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons. |
Samuel Gregg, Law, Liberty The more time you spend in the world of ideas, the more you realize there is little new under the sun. The words might be different and the faces change, but the basic messages remain the same. Intellectual revolutions are like all genuine revolutions—extremely rare. Good and bad ideas alike tend to be recycled under different labels. |
Editorial, New York Times Child poverty requires a permanent fix. |
Richard Rahn, The Washington Times Will inflation increase, and if so, how will it affect you? The short answer is that many economists, including yours truly, expect inflation to increase. |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments The Fed is more than one person, and that one person might not even be in charge much longer. |
Alex Tapscott, American Consequences Nine Reasons Why Smart Investors Are Buying In and Why You Should Too By Alex Tapscott Bitcoin is back in the news after recently hitting all-time highs. “Speculative frenzy spills into Crypto as Bitcoin Tests Highs,” read a recent Bloomberg headline. The daily swings make for good headlines and yes, bitcoin has proven to be […] |
Robert Wyllie, The Examiner As the House and Senate budget committees begin the usual process of putting together a federal budget for the coming fiscal year, one of the big unanswered questions is how much they will be swayed by a radical new theory of what the federal budget really is. |
Gregory Wetstone, USA Today In response to Texas blackouts warning to Biden and all of us: Renewables do play a role in grid problems, published Monday: It is erroneous to claim that renewable power was largely responsible for the grid problems in Texas. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments The more Italian prime ministers change, the more gridlock remains the same. |
Wayne Crews, Competitive Enterprise Institute |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Schwab Slick trading screens can make investing seem like a game, but investing and gambling are totally at odds. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Christoph Trebesch, VoxEU The rise of populism in the past two decades has motivated much work on its drivers, but less is known about its economic and political consequences. History says it is here to stay. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Naomi Schaefer Riley & Angela Rachidi, Reason The right and the left are ready to send fiscal conservatism off the rails. |
Dylan Matthews, Vox The government shouldn't just be generous. It should be simple too. |
Mikhail Samonov, Two Centuries Investments The power of Intangibles has been growing for the past three decades but 2020 marked the year that intangibles took center stage in the real economy. |
Todd G. Buchholz, PS Numerous US legislators are proposing a new tax on stock trades to slow down social-media-fueled meteors like GameStop. But such a tax would actually make things worse by prolonging the time it takes for a meteoric price rise to correct itself and reunite with reality. |
Susan Dziubinski, Morningstar These narrow-moat firms have positive moat trends and are run by exemplary stewards of capital. |
Alex Gladstein, Quillette The digital money project has in fact survived a variety of attacks which in some cases threatened its existence. |
Paul du Quenoy, City Journal From operas to art emporiums, Palm Beach is open for business. |
Joseph Stiglitz, CNN Much of the $1.9 trillion in the Biden plan addresses the pandemic and its economic consequences directly: providing vaccines, opening up schools safely, sending assistance to vulnerable Americans and helping states and localities that have seen their revenues plummet. |
Rainer Zitelmann, Washington Examiner Why have socialist ideas again developed such a strong appeal? Why, that is, when every single socialist experiment over the past 100 years has failed? British economist Kristian Niemietz provides an answer in his book Socialism. The Failed Idea That Never Dies. |
Emily Stewart, Vox Congress should use automatic stabilizers to phase out unemployment benefits when the economy improves after the Covid-19 pandemic. Instead, it's setting up workers for yet another unemployment cliff in August. |
Jeffrey Tucker, American Institute for Economic Research There is a sense in the air that the pandemic is winding down, and the toxic culture of division, fear, and hatred along with it. Cases are down dramatically. Deaths too. Hospitalizations are no longer irregular. Restrictions are being repealed. You can follow all the action daily at the CDC's new and unusually competent landing page on the virus (it only took them a year to build this). |
Matt Schifrin & Hank Tucker, Forbes Before Covid-19, scores of the nation's private colleges were already facing a financial health pandemic. Things have gotten worseâ?"and here's a report card. |
James Picerno, Capital Spectator The bond market is reeling from firmer reflation expectations, or at least some corners of the market are taking a hit. But in the reordered world of fixed income in 2021 there are also winners, based on year-to-date returns for a set of exchange traded funds through yesterday's close (Feb. 23). |
Scott Grannis, Calafia Beach Pundit The reflation theme is alive, well, and prospering. Today, Fed Chairman Powell himself told the world that. |
Dharna Noor, Earther Today, Texas is in the balmy mid-50s. Yet just a week ago, it got colder than Alaska, and we know what happened next. Much of the state's energy capacity got knocked offline, leaving millions of people without power for days. It doesn't have to be this way. |
Steven Malanga, City Journal Urban recreation areas are reenergizing neighborhoods, but activists increasingly fear "green gentrification." |
Charlie Bilello, Compound Advisors Trends in intermarket relationships. |
John Rekenthaler, MStar A little learning is a dangerous thing. |
Jamie Powell, FT Alphaville Electric vehicle stocks are taking it on the chin. |
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