09/29/2020
Today Andy Puzder, Fox Business Over the Trump administration's first three years, between 2016 and 2019, real median household income increased 9.2%. |
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. |
Nathan Bomey, USA Today Like President Donald Trump, rich Americans often deploy sophisticated tax avoidance strategies to maximize their wealth. Not to be confused with tax evasion, which is illegal, tax avoidance is entirely legal, even if many view it as unfair. A sweeping New York Times report published Sunday revealed numerous tax reduction strategies used by Trump. He's not alone. Affluent taxpayers often have more avenues than ordinary Americans to avoid paying Uncle Sam. |
Josh Barro, NY Some people are reading President Trump's taxes â?" or the New York Times' account of what was in his taxes over the last 20 years â?" much too literally. |
Tim Worstall, Washington Examiner The New York Times really needs to get its complaint straight. Apparently, President Trump is a no-good businessman who never makes any money, and so he aggressively avoids tax payments, paying just $750 in income taxes in 2016 and 2017 (if the report is true, which Trump has unsurprisingly called "fake news"). No doubt, he has to be aggressive to ensure he doesn't pay taxes on money he hasn't made. Or maybe it's all just another reason to stand in Midtown Manhattan shrieking about Trump. |
Dan Mitchell, Int'l Liberty Washington is a cesspool of waste, fraud, and abuse. All taxpayers, to avoid having their income squandered in D.C., should go above and beyond the call of duty to minimize the amount they send to the IRS. Which is why today's column is a bipartisan love fest for Donald Trump and Joe Biden - both? |
Ellen Wald, The Hill America's oil and gas production is important even to states that don't have production. |
Jenin Younes, American Institute for Economic Research What if the world vastly overestimated the seriousness of the coronavirus and effectuated countermeasures that wrought far more damage than the disease itself? That is the central question that Karina Reiss and Sucharit Bhakdi, a biochemist and microbiologist, respectively, set out to answer in Corona: False Alarm? Facts and Figures. |
John Tamny, RCM “I have my job because of Coach Swinney.” So said an employee of The Abernathy a few springs ago to yours truly. “Coach Swinney” is Dabo Swinney, head coach of the nearly always-in-title-contention Clemson Tigers. Swinney’s remarkable success has touched not just his players, along with Clemson grads who have a degree that is increasingly well known. Swinney’s achievements spread throughout the town of Clemson, along with the cities and towns that abut the college-football mecca. |
Paul Brandus, MarketWatch Post-election market volatility could be the least of our problems |
Eric Grover, RCM Chinese fintech and payments giant the Ant Group is going to IPO in October. It aims to raise up to $35 billion in Hong Kong and Shanghai at over a $200 billion valuation. In 2018 it raised $14 billion in the biggest-ever single fundraising by a private company at a $150 billion valuation. Ant’s epic IPO could surpass Saudi Aramco’s raise of $29.4 billion as the largest ever. Most Americans would love the backstory. The world’s largest e-commerce company Alibaba was founded by English teacher Jack Ma in 1999. He improved the lives of hundreds of... |
Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Most mornings, Kat Payne calls a family meeting and talks with her children about how -- or if -- they are going to be able to pay their bills each month. It's a routine she began after she was furloughed from her job as a housekeeper at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown in March. |
Various, Charles Schwab Why investors should focus on their financial plans in the run-up to the 2020 election. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
E.J. McMahon, Manhattan Institute Exploring the history of NYC's past budget crises, restoring the FCB's authority over spending could help deliver the city out of this Covid crisis. |
Richard Salsman, InterMarket Forecasting Inc. |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Financial Network |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
William Petri, MarketWatch A top medical researcher explains how we would know if a vaccine is safe and effective |
Charisse Jones, USA Today In a year like no other, even Santa Claus may find himself out of work. A visit to the mall to sit on the jolly old elf's lap may be yet another tradition knocked to the wayside by COVID-19, as wary parents keep their children home. And while that's bad news for kids, it may be worse news for all those Santas who count on gigs at department stores and office Christmas bashes to earn extra cash – or, in some cases, a big chunk of their annual income. |
Michael Grynbaum, New York Times In a new show on a new network, the anchor wants a 'no pundits' approach: 'We're not interested in helping you know how to think.' |
Paul Gregory, Forbes The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline linking Russia to Germany in order to sell Russian gas to the rest of Europe has been complicated by the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny. That doesn't mean it won't be completed. |
Editorial, New York Post In short, Big Tech's reasons for supporting Biden look to most people like a point in Trump's favor. It's not so much about "listening to experts" as it is recognizing that the experts can be as short-sighted and selfish as anyone. |
Brian Stelter, CNN The New York Times just published one of the most important stories of the past five years. |
Gene Marks, The Hill Where are the specific proposals that will help small businesses? What legislation will Biden put forth? What government programs will he create? |
Alexander Salter, American Institute for Economic Research Whatever its origins, money must be reckoned one of the greatest labor-saving technologies in human history. As we have seen, money eliminates the double coincidence of wants problem that exists under barter. It is no longer necessary to find someone who wants what you have, and also has what you want, when you make exchanges. If all exchanges take place using money, money itself becomes one-half of all exchanges. In practice, some transactions might continue to take place without money. But money is used in most transactions. Indeed, if money were not generally accepted, it would not be... |
Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch Combination of October?s volatility and average gain can work to your benefit |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar The longer the time period, the stronger the pattern. |
Stephen S. Roach, Project Syndicate In the second quarter of this year, the US experienced the sharpest plunge in domestic saving on record, dating back to 1947. Because that will continue, and the current-account balance is following suit, the dollar's real effective exchange rate can head in only one direction. |
Alicia McElhaney, II TikTok is Gen Z's financial education hub. That's a problem. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Chris Patten, Project Syndicate Four examples of the Chinese leadership's duplicity and mendacity demonstrate that the last thing the world should do is trust the Communist Party of China. If governments recognize this and act together, the sooner the Beijing bullies will have to behave better. |
Eric Adams, Vox Self-driving cars were expected to roll out by 2021. Here's what we need to solve and build first. |
John Cochrane, The Grumpy Economist It always struck me that research inside the Fed seems to produce answers closer to the views of Fed officials than does research outside of... |
Brett Arends, MarketWatch Why are pension funds investing in hedge funds? |
Alicia McElhaney, Institutional Investor To its fans it's a top-notch financial analyst publisher. To its detractors it's trash. But to many it's an increasingly dark well of tinfoil-hat conjecture. |
Jeff Rubin, Quillette Self-employment, temporary employment, on-call work, home-based work, and telecommuting are becoming more common. |
Bill Murphy Jr., Inc. "He is my hero. He is Bill Gates's hero. He should be everybody's hero." |
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