05/26/2021 Today
Antoine Gara, Forbes In the last ten years, hedge fund investor Adam Wyden made his investors 11 times richer by uncovering hidden stock gems. His biggest worry? That his Democratic Senator father will tax his gains to death. |
Spencer Bokat-Lindell, New York Times Cryptocurrencies haven't quite delivered on their revolutionary promises. But they are messing with the stock market. |
Jude Clemente, RealClearEnergy "Today, the data shows a looming mismatch between the world's strengthened climate ambitions and the availability of critical minerals that are essential to realizing those ambitions,&rdqu |
Jeffrey Lamb, RealClearMarkets When Joe Biden makes his first international trip as President to the G7 Leaders' Summit in the English resort town of Carbis Bay next month, he and the leaders of the world's other industrialized democracies will be asked to tackle an agenda focused on how the world should "build back better from coronavirus and create a greener, more prosperous future" - a global riff on Biden's framing of America's post-Covid economic recovery. President Biden and his counterparts at the G7 summit, who will include not only the traditional attendees from Canada, the UK, Europe, and Japan but also... |
Buck Sexton, AC Biden thinks he sounds like FDR while governing as if he's AOC, but his presidential efforts and accomplishments so far have been DOA. |
Christopher DeMuth, RealClearMarkets The U.S. federal government followed a balanced-budget policy for 181 years, from its first year of operations in 1789 through 1969. That policy had three components: (1) regular operations were paid for with current revenues from taxes and tariffs; (2) borrowing was reserved for wars, other emergencies such as economic depressions, and investments in national development (territory, harbors, transportation); and (3) debts accumulated for those purposes were paid down by subsequent budget surpluses and economic growth. The policy was followed imperfectly but with impressive consistency. |
Richard Salsman, AIER "The near-phobic disdain for supply-side economics and neoliberalism this century is part of a new wave of anti-capitalist sentiment. We have seen this movie before. It is a horror film. The true friends of rationality, liberty, and prosperity should wake up, stand proudly, and contend boldly."... |
Josh Kampel, Worth Our commitment to highlight how business can accelerate social progress. |
Benjamin Zycher, RealClearMarkets Summer still is weeks away, but already we have a winner in the fierce competition for the coveted title of "Dumbest New York Times opinion column of 2021." The envelope please… and the winner is "Why Charles Koch Wins When Our Energy System Breaks Down," by someone named Christopher Leonard. One really does have to read this column to grasp — actually, to marvel at — the inanity of Leonard's argument, which can be summarized as follows. |
Paul Katzeff, IBD Are you retirement savings big enough? Many people don't know how to figure that out. But here's a practical, fast, easy way to tell if you're on track. |
Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway, New York A recently hot Wall Street trend is now suddenly out of fashion. But it still has its uses. |
Paul La Monica, CNN Kerry Killinger, who was named CEO of Washington Mutual in 1990 and was fired in September 2008 just weeks before the bank failed as mortgage loans continued to go bad, spoke to CNN Business about the similarities and differences between now and 2008. |
Russell Redenbaugh & James Juliano, Kairos Capital Management |
Jeffrey Buchbinder, LPL Financial Research Monday, May 24, 2021 Top Story Stock Market Gains Likely To Slow |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Cooper Howard, Charles Schwab However, while the risk for a wave of downgrades has waned, yields are low relative to comparable alternatives. |
Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab Inflation has become an obsessed-about topic; with the latest CPI report reinforcing inflationists' fears. Is the Fed right that it's only a "transitory" problem? |
Brian Riedl, Manhattan Institute As structural budget deficits grow to trillions of dollars and politicians promise even more spending, taxing the rich has become a popular solution to finance expanded government. But large tax increases on high earners not only are insufficient to close much of these budget gaps; they would... |
Lawrence Gillum, LPL Financial Market Blog Tuesday, May 18, 2021 |
Richard Ebeling, AIER "We are in the presidential executive grip of someone who is determined to make us all the players on a grand stage of life upon which he gets to make up and make right for his own frustration, anger, and embarrassment that he experienced as a youngster over a world that did not give his father... |
Talia Lavin, MSNBC We can't let the real, human stories of the pandemic fade into nothing. |
Pinar Cebi Wilber, Hill Congress should make sure the agency has enough funds to effectively perform its core duties first and should think carefully before assigning additional tasks to an overworked agency. |
Kim Iskyan, AC Telecom behemoths AT&T and Verizon are both hemorrhaging assets with their ill-advised forays into the world of digital content creation. |
Julia Horowitz, CNN Central banks were the superheroes of the early phase of the pandemic, taking dramatic steps to save the economy and financial markets from ruin. |
Hilary George-Parkin,Vox The pandemic has changed how Americans shop, from wider aisles to curbside pickup. |
Brian Riedl, The Dispatch A bipartisan coalition has introduced legislation to keep Social Security and Medicare solvent. |
Melissa Gopnik, USA TODAY The $300 supplement is letting people decide what's best and safest for them and their families. They're no longer a captive workforce. |
Robert Bixby, The Hill If we truly want to build an economy that does better than restoring where we were prior to the pandemic, putting the debt on a sustainable path must be part of the solution. |
Ann Carrns, New York Times There was big growth in account balances during the pandemic, but some states are offering promotions to attract even more savers. |
Chris Isidore, CNN Those betting against Tesla shares are doing very well so far in 2021, following a disastrous 2020, as shares have lost about a third of their value over the last four months. There just are fewer people shorting the stock this time around. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Campbell Harvey, FT Alphaville Man Group analysis shows it pays to own oil, gold and wine, and possibly also a bitcoin if and when inflation bites. |
Sara Morrison, Vox DC's attorney general is suing Amazon over a controversial policy. |
Nouriel Roubini, PS While some major economies are recovering fast from the pandemic-induced recession, others are languishing, and still others remain in a state of acute crisis. The extent to which these global inequalities persist will depend on a range of factors, and will have profound implications for social, political, and geopolitical stability. |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar The odds favor equities. |
Matt Taibbi, TK News by Matt Taibbi Fact-checkers are great, but the media business keeps trying to solve its credibility problem by misrepresenting what they do |
Jeremy Schwartz & Matt Wagner, Wisdom Tree Why Japanese small caps may deserve consideration by value-starved asset allocators. |
Peter Kafka, Vox Amazon isn't competing with Netflix, but it is spending billions trying to figure out Hollywood. Maybe 007 can help. | |
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