04/24/2021
Today David Harsanyi, NYP In anticipation of the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, a two-day global gathering of more than 40 world leaders, President Joe Biden declared that the United States had a "moral imperative" to a… |
Paul Krugman, The New York Times Change is inevitable, but can we cushion the impact on communities? |
Gene Marks, The Hill A 2019 study from Oxford Economics finds that robots will replace up to 20 million factory jobs alone in the next 10 years. |
Steven Greenhouse, CNN If we ever hope to create an economy that assures that every worker has the respect they deserve and a fair share of our nation's prosperity, we need to make unionization elections fairer, give workers a bigger voice at work and fix our dangerous levels of inequality. |
Neil Baron, The Hill More than 40 years of 'trickle-down' failed to deliver; instead, it's led to negative or flat economic growth and higher unemployment. |
Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic The label "low-skill" flattens workers to a single attribute, ignoring the capacities they have and devaluing the jobs they do. |
Helen Raleigh, Federalist Since inflation is a process and not an end-state, it never seems too bad at the start. Unfortunately, Americans should prepare to buckle up for the future. |
Zachary Faria, Washington Examiner Democrats have been fighting to use their slim majority in Congress to impose a national $15 minimum wage. But the minimum wage wouldn't be $15 — it would be zero, as it always has been. |
Reeves & Pulliam, WP Dozens of special federal tax breaks overwhelmingly benefit the affluent. |
Adam J. Mead, MarketWatch The next CEO will need a plan to return cash to shareholders. |
Henry Grabar, Slate Losing your umpteenth bidding war just might radicalize you. |
Chris Matthews, MarketWatch Wyoming's economy is powered by some of the oldest industries in human history, including mining, agriculture and tourism. But in recent years the state has... |
Liz Ann Sonders & Kevin Gordon, Schwab Special purpose acquisition companies—also known as blank-check companies—have gained immense popularity since the beginning of 2020. |
Anu Gaggar, Commonwealth Who will be the winners (and losers) of the American Jobs Plan? Commonwealth's Anu Gaggar makes her picks. |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Schwab The American Rescue Plan Act includes much more than stimulus payments, especially if your children are minors. |
Market Minder, Fisher What the latest Chinese economic data reveal about what lies ahead. |
Bret Swanson, American Enterprise Institute Even perhaps the internet industry it invented. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Preston Caldwell, Morningstar We've increased our U.S. GDP growth forecast. |
Jeff Sommer, New York Times The economy and the stock market have churned out spectacular numbers, and investor optimism is high. But don't forget to hedge your bets. |
Stephen S. Roach, Project Syndicate There were three seemingly strong reasons to predict last year that the US economy was headed for a double-dip recession. In the end, a confluence of three other reasons explains why that prediction turned out to be spectacularly wrong. |
Eric Boehm, Reason A Connecticut company got a $138 million government contract in order to break America's supposed "dependence" on foreign-made syringes. It has yet to produce even a single one. |
Allison Schrager, City Journal Doubling the tax rate will burden all Americans, not just the wealthy. |
Julia Horowitz, CNN Investors who back upstart companies are known for their optimism. But when it comes to the wall of money pouring into clean energy, their enthusiasm is tinged with concern. |
Christine Benz, Morningstar And when we should expect any changes. |
Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker Cryptocurrency mining uses huge amounts of power—and can be as destructive as the real thing. |
Jemima Kelly, FT Alphaville Imagine bitcoin has no environmental problem — it's easy if you try. |
Nathan Robinson, Current Affairs Getting past the cult of Genius and the bleakness of capitalist futurism. |
David Böcking, Der Spiegel U.S. President Joe Biden is calling for a minimum corporate tax rate of 21 percent for companies. But countries like Ireland and Luxembourg have established a lucrative revenue stream through big breaks for multinationals. A number of EU countries could soon feel the pinch. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Daniel Jelski, Trotsky's Children Have we reached peak bitcoin? Yes--I think we have, at least for this year. I feel very strange saying that, seeing as I've been an enthusia... |
Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution Some states would see capital gains rates over 50% under Biden's plan. |
Zachary Crockett, The Hustle In the 1990s, a group of elderly women from Beardstown, Illinois gained national fame for their stock returns. But there was a catch. |
Ben Carlson, AWOCS There are a number of factors that drive the markets that most investors pay attention to. Things like earnings, economic growth, interest rates, inflation, market trends and valuations.All these |
Bryce Coward, Knowledge Leaders Capital 10 year Treasury rates peaked at the end of March at 1.74% after having risen from low of just 0.56% back in the summer of 2020. Now, the rate stands at 1.57% even as economic data continues to come in smoking hot and policy remains easy. |
Theodore Schleifer, Vox Texas schools. A food bank. Now a climate-change prize. The Tesla founder discovers Big Philanthropy. |
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