07/03/2021
Today Luigi Zingales, Project Syndicate All too often, entrepreneurs and managers use the threat of massive layoffs to extract large unwarranted subsidies. After the COVID-19 pandemic, workers should get to decide whether such assistance is justified. |
David Hay, Evergreen Gavekal One of Wall Street's most hallowed phrases is "Don't Fight the Fed" and for good reason. |
Nelson D. Schwartz, New York Times After years in which Americans worked later in life, the latest economic disruption has driven many out of the work force prematurely. |
Editors, The Christian Science Monitor The old certainties of economics have been shocked into a new reality that requires more deliberation and listening. |
Veronique de Rugy, Reason We don't have a gridlock problem. We have a spending problem. |
David Adler, American Affairs Operation Warp Speed saved millions of lives. |
Jonathan Zittrain, The Atlantic Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity's knowledge together is coming undone. |
Justin Elliott & Patricia Callahan, ProPublica Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes. |
Jesse Hyde, Bloomberg Businessweek After thoroughbreds started winning at suspicious rates, investigators stepped in. Eventually, 29 people would be indicted in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud bettors. |
Art Carden, AIER Walmart changed retail for the better. |
Emily Stewart, Vox The robot apocalypse is already here, it just looks different than you thought. |
Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times Employers in California and the U.S. are scrambling to fill jobs as the dust from the pandemic begins to settle. Just don't call it a labor shortage. |
Liz Ann Sonders, Schwab Inflationary bottleneck pressures tied to the economic reopening are fading; and as suggested by the bond market and wages, a return to hyperinflation is unlikely. |
Various, Self Cities in the U.S. with the largest minority wage gap |
Wayne Crews, Competitive Enterprise Institute |
Russell Redenbaugh & James Juliano, Kairos Capital Management |
Rob Arnott, Vitali Kalesnik & Lillian Wu, Research Affiliates Tesla entered the S&P 500 Index on December 21, 2020. Over the next six months, AIV, the stock deleted to make way for TSLA, outperformed TSLA by a stupendous margin—exactly as we expected, based on our research. Index rebalances impose a variety of costs on investors. Smarter index design could go far to mitigate these costs. |
Michael Iachini, Charles Schwab An index ETF-only portfolio can be a straightforward yet flexible investment solution. |
Nouriel Roubini, Project Syndicate Years of ultra-loose fiscal and monetary policies have put the global economy on track for a slow-motion train wreck in the coming years. When the crash comes, the stagflation of the 1970s will be combined with the spiraling debt crises of the post-2008 era, leaving major central banks in an impossible position. |
Katherine Lynch, Morningstar Bond markets recover and stocks post broad gains. |
Jeff Sommer, NYT Consumers, economists and bond traders often attempt to forecast inflation, but we really are walking in the dark. |
Safal Niveshak, Safal Niveshak His best investment broke all the rules he laid out in The Intelligent Investor. |
Bryce Coward, Knowledge Leaders The ever-important payroll report came in ahead of expectations for June, but will ultimately do little to sway policy in toward the hawkish faction of the Federal Reserve Board. |
Daniel Hemel, The Atlantic The indictments of the business and its CFO allege not some minor technical mistakes, but blatant violations of the law. |
Susan Dziubinski, Morningstar These are the cheapest names in the Morningstar Wide Moat Focus Index--plus stocks the index has recently added and dropped. |
Brett Arends, MarketWatch When it came to retirement planning, the former New York Met did three things right. |
Shira Ovide, New York Times Microsoft made epic mistakes for years, but it's again one of the tech world's superstars. |
Peter Suderman, Reason Even the president's most entrenched political opposition cannot seem to find much to engage or enrage. |
Brendan O'Connell, Enterprising Investor Quick, what is 1 July 2021 the 50th anniversary of? |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Ironman, Political Calculations Going by the U.S. stock market's dividends, both June 2021 and the second quarter of 2021 registered robust growth. |
Mebane Faber, Meb Faber Research When's the last time you made 100X on an investment? Not 100% on your initial investment, 100 times your initial investment. That means you sink $10,000 into an investment and pull out a cool $1,000,000…for many investors this could be a life-changing outcome. |
Joshua M Brown, The Reformed Broker The finish line isn't the thing, it's the route we take to get there and the milestones we celebrate along the way. |
Jamie Powell, FT Alphaville Growth is not confined to a few names at the top. |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense If you dig into the components of the consumer price index, you'll notice housing makes up a big part of the government's inflation calculation.The latest data from the BLS shows owners' equivalen |
Matt Welch, Reason Nice Racism—and the "anti-racism" consulting business—rakes in the bucks while losing hearts and minds. |
Andrew Liszewski, Gizmodo I'm not willing to jump through all the hoops needed to make my home barely smarter. |
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