07/21/2021
Today Mark Spitznagel, Financial Times Cost of risk mitigation is often worse than the feared outcome |
Christoph Gisiger, themarket Fred Hickey, editor of the investment bulletin «The High-Tech Strategist,» expects that the bull market in precious metals is about to get the next surge. He is betting on gold mining as well as energy stocks and is wagering against the ever-crazier valuations in the tech sector. |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments In honor of NBER's official declaration of economic recovery, we highlight two lessons. |
Emily Brandon, U.S. News Every time you change jobs, you need to decide what to do with your old 401(k) plan. Leaving a job can be a time to seek better mutual fund choices and lower investment costs. But it's also important to take care to avoid fees and taxes when you move your money. |
Patrick Hedger, RealClearMarkets The freak-out over net neutrality falls somewhere between the Y2K paranoia and the Mayan Calendar on the Chicken Little scale. CNN declared the passage of the 2017 Restoring Internet Freedom Order the "End of the internet as we know it." The official Twitter account of Senate Democrats Tweeted, "If we don't save net neutrality, you'll get the internet one word at a time," with large spaces between each word. The rhetoric was so overheated a bomb threat was called in to the FCC meeting where the rollback of net neutrality rules was passed. Of course, the catastrophe never came to pass. Today,... |
Rebecca Heilweil, Vox Customers are largely unaware that some of their favorite stores are using facial recognition tech. |
Paul Schwennesen, Law & Liberty Paul Schwennesen explains how Big Tech can lead a market-driven environmentalism. |
Rob Smith, RealClearMarkets A friend of mine, a big muckety muck CEO of a national company with $14 billion in sales suggested that I write a positive article about "good things" going on in the US and quit bashing the Left. I would list "Mr. Big's" name, but I am afraid being associated with a flame throwing reactionary such as myself would make his company's stock plummet. I don't want people picketing in front of his house and scaring his family, so he will remain anonymous. I promise to be completely unbiased and apolitical; no snarky comments! In the words of Joe Isuzu, you can trust me! So here are a few of the... |
David Adler, Foreign Policy The pandemic ends by getting shots in arms. |
Bryce Covert, New York Times The goal is "one reasonable job per person," not "two for one and half for another." |
Yael Ossowski, RCM Earlier this month, as Americans finished up the 4-day work week to enjoy midsummer weather, President Biden unveiled an executive order on promoting competition in our economy. While it contains several aspects that could negatively impact consumers, there are also some bright spots that could help spark new innovations, remove red tape, and help reduce prices. |
Ike Brannon, City Journal New York City's proposed restaurant-delivery fee-price cap threatens to upset a fragile market. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Financial Network According to NBER, the COVID recession is over. But is it? Commonwealth CIO Brad McMillan weighs in. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Seth Karp & Greg Segal, THC In the more than 35 years since federal legislation created organ procurement organizations (OPOs) to recover organs from deceased donors for transplantation, there has been a disparity in their performance,... |
Daniel Kern & Renee Kwok, TFC Financial Management |
Robert Powell, USA TODAY It's not a new discovery that Social Security income will fall short of scheduled benefit. But there's no need to overreact. |
David Eifrig, American Consequences Be it the German mark of the 1920s or the U.S. dollar now, hyperinflation is tragically timeless. And it's coming after your savings. |
Binyamin Appelbaum, New York Times The company's exit from a federal program that provides free tax-filing software is an opportunity for the I.R.S. to create something better. |
Gary Cunningham, Hill Making the expansions to the Child Tax Credit permanent is a first step towards making our tax system work for all families. |
Rebecca Heilweil, Vox Blue Origin launched its first flight with humans aboard, including billionaire Jeff Bezos. |
Tim Worstall, The Examiner President Joe Biden's American Families Plan suggests eliminating the step-up basis tax process. |
Ben Luthi, U.S. News & World Report Securities-based lending is the practice of lending money to investors who use their securities, such as stocks, exchange-traded funds and others, as collateral for the loan. Getting a securities-backed loan can be a good way to get some liquidity when you need it without selling a portion of your portfolio. But there are some drawbacks to keep in mind if you're considering it. |
Robert Mulligan, American Institute for Economic Research "National debt ballooned together with the Fed's balance sheet even before the pandemic hit, and once it did we've been spending with unprecedented recklessness for relief, recovery, and even supposed infrastructure expansion. Spending this wealth that has yet to be created guarantees, not just... |
Spencer Bokat-Lindell, New York Times If you've had to scour the market lately for an affordable car or a new apartment lease, you may have noticed: Things are getting more expensive. |
Paulina Likos, U.S. News & World Report The role of the Federal Reserve is to help the U.S. economy operate effectively. The Fed has a lot of power to influence the economy, and this indirectly impacts how stocks move. While the stock market is not the economy, it can be seen as a reflection of how confident consumers are about the strength of the economy now and in the future. |
Ethan Yang, AIER "Despite the evidence, despite the advocacy, despite the public outcry, the lockdowners had their way with society. Some of them have gotten away with blatant hypocrisy while in positions of authority. The list is so large the Heritage Foundation even has a database to list the notable... |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Leonard Kostovetsky, The Blindfolded Chimpanzee The stock market's movements are not always reactions to news. Some price changes are due to randomness and sometimes what's newsworthy is a lack of news. |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar The lesson learned by translating yesterday's dollars. |
Matt Welch, Reason California slides from dynamism to stasis. |
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon I am fascinated by the speed at which Moderna has become a $100 billion company…a biotech one at that. |
Matt Taibbi, TK News by Matt Taibbi National Public Radio complains about a media figure who tells people "what their opinions should be" and uses political "buzzwords" |
Michael Harris, Price Action Lab Recently, there were numerous references in mainstream financial media to the lumber/gold ratio and its potential link to a correction in stock market. |
Erica Pandey, Axios As the appreciation of public space grows, the humble mall could be the place to be |
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