08/19/2021
Today Brian Maloney, RealClearMarkets While they may not agree on nearly anything else, one issue manages to unite Fox News Channel, MSNBC and CNN: an archaic television ratings system that is known to wildly misrepresent viewership. At a time when cord-cutting has brought about many new ways to consume television news and entertainment, the industry's primary measurement tool, Nielsen Ratings, seems stuck in another era. Those chosen as "Nielsen families" have complained for years about the cumbersome, almost primitive methods used to track their viewership. |
Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic And help the climate, too |
Sarah Max, Barrons Too many investors don't understand how to value a value stock, says Rafe Resendes, co-manager of the Applied Finance Select fund. |
Market Minder, FI What do good industrial production and disappointing retail sales have in common? Neither means much (if anything) to stocks looking forward. |
Jake Ward, Washington Examiner Our economy is struggling to recover from the pandemic. Companies are understaffed, and the cost of doing business is rising. Against this backdrop, Congress is advancing its latest anti-tech legislation, the INFORM Consumers Act, which threatens to stifle small businesses' recovery by introducing… |
Angelina Chapin, New York Magazine As a record number of Americans leave their jobs, those who can't are working themselves sick. |
John Tamny, RealClearMarkets It was March 1, 2020 and the bar area at Maggiano's D.C. was packed. Mo, a Moroccan immigrant, was the waiter covering all the dining tables in the restaurant's cavernous bar area. And he was making good money. Successful restaurants always have people like Mo who generally know their customers, and they know them because their customers are regulars. I was one of those regulars, along with my then 3-year old daughter. Mo had literally watched Claire grow up. |
Editorial, Issues & Insights Politicians gave it to us good and hard. |
Aaron Mak, Slate Something appears to be confusing a system that Tesla drivers frequently misuse. |
Clara Del Villar, Newsmax Social Security celebrated its 86th anniversary this past Saturday, Aug.14. In 2021, 65 million Americans will receive this benefit with the total of all those checks being over $1 trillion dollars. |
Russ Wiles, The 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 |
Laura He, CNN Chinese President Xi Jinping this week issued a bold new pledge to redistribute wealth in the country, piling more pressure on the country's richest citizens and businesses. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
James Picerno, The Capital Spectator Yesterday's July report on US consumer inflation suggested that the recent surge in pricing pressure may be peaking. That's also the message in revised data for CapitalSpectator.com's Inflation Trend Index (ITI). |
Collin Martin, Charles Schwab For yield-seeking investors willing to take additional risk, bank loans may be more attractive than high-yield bonds today. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
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. |
Terry Nguyen, Vox As employees quit their jobs at record rates, companies like Target and Walmart are offering better benefits to retain them. |
Robert Scott, Hill Passage of a full spending plan included in the reconciliation bill is essential to ensure a full recovery and a growing economy with broadly shared prosperity for all workers. |
Tim Worstall, Washington Examiner Amtrak is set to score $66 billion from the infrastructure bill. |
Jeanna Smialek & Alan Rappeport, NYT As Jerome H. Powell nears the end of his term as Federal Reserve chair, Ms. Yellen will have a say over whether he should stay on. Many progressive Democrats want him replaced. |
Paul La Monica, CNN The S&P 500 and the Dow are still near all-time highs despite Tuesday's big selloff. The Nasdaq isn't far from a record either. All three indexes are up between 14% and 18% this year. |
Maxwell Hampton, AIER "Perhaps it will take some time, but there is still hope that US policymakers will recognize the advantages of market-based solutions instead of leaning on continuous mandates." ~ Maxwell Hampton |
Dave Seminara, City Journal The economic migrants the Left doesn't want us to know about. |
Anthony Gill, Am. Institute for Economic Research "Politicians who benefit by pretending to ameliorate even the most minor complaints take action, regulate voluntary transactions, and affect how gains from trade can be distributed or even occur." ~ Anthony Gill |
Nicholas Sargen, The Hill Having rejected two long-standing tenets about inflation, the Fed needs to articulate the macro framework it uses to assess inflation prospects. |
Tom Joyce, Washington Examiner Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wants to sneak a big tax break for the wealthy into a massive spending bill. |
Steven Malanga, City Journal Local municipalities fear the new state levy will lead to an income tax and hurt the economy. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture Where you choose to measure performance from shapes the story. |
John Timmer, Ars Technica Thanks to a big donation, Caltech has funded a sci-fi-sounding project. |
Ian Leslie, The Ruffian What happened in Central Park last year and what it tells us about journalism (plus the usual smorgasbord of brain food). |
Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge What if it's more like unstablecoin? |
Jim O'Neill, Project Syndicate In the half-century since US President Richard Nixon closed the curtain on the Bretton Woods system, the US dollar has been the dominant global currency, largely because there were no other aspirants to the throne. Nonetheless, recent events have reminded us that conditions can change both gradually and suddenly. |
Christine Benz, Morningstar Make it a mega. |
Todd Wenning, Intrinsic Investing Companies are not static assets like gold or artwork, but in a state of constant change. Over a long enough timeline, the company you own today will be quite different from the one you originally bought. |
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