06/01/2021
Today Daniela Cambone, American Consequences Financial reporter Daniella Cambone takes you behind the battle-of-the-billionaires debate between Michael Saylor and Frank Giustra. |
Joakim Book, American Institute for Economic Research You cannot eat bitcoin, or dollars, or bank balances, which means that whatever vehicle you use to move value across time has an exchange rate risk. Many bitcoiners' mistake is to think that their preferred asset avoids this; Taleb's mistake is to think that others can have a different view of government than him. |
Market Minder, Fisher Inv Calling bitcoin an inflation hedge overlooks juuuuuuuust a few issues. |
Jeffrey Tucker, RCM How entrenched in political culture is the idea of lockdown to address a crisis? My optimistic bent says: not much. We are in the blowback stage. The nearly uncritical celebration for Michael Lewis's book on the pandemic, however, sets me back a peg or two. In fact, it terrifies me. By now, everyone knows Lewis's literary trick. He investigates a notable event within a sector of American life about which most people care. As a journalist, he knows how the story ends. So do his readers. His job is to find unlikely people who came out as the winners by overcoming all odds. |
Laura He, CNN China's decision to allow people to have more children is a dramatic attempt to head off a worsening labor shortage that could weigh on the country's economic rise. |
John Tamny, RCM Last week USIAID head Anthony Fauci inched a bit more toward the possibility that the new coronavirus was perhaps a man-made virus released from a lab in Wuhan. Fauci's hedge was surely manna from heaven from a U.S. political class that created such a massive economic and human rights disaster in 2020. But first, it's useful to stop and consider Fauci's flip flop. It's a reminder of something I stress over and over in my new book, When Politicians Panicked: what we know to be true rarely ages well. In Fauci's case, he rather famously got a lot wrong about AIDS in the 1980s, including how it... |
Matthew Herder & Christopher Morten, Nation Global vaccine scarcity is not inevitable. |
Edward Glaeser, CJ The key to post-Covid recovery is lifting restraints to new business creation. |
Paul Krugman, New York Times How to do big things without making bombastic claims. |
Jake Dean, Slate A national system of feed-in tariffs could transform the U.S. approach to renewable energy. |
E.J. McMahon & Howard Husock, New York Post New York's sloppy statewide property-tax assessment system hurts suburban homeowners while fueling a greedy grievance-filing firm industry. |
J. Kennerly Davis, Washington Examiner Liberals argue with increasing frequency and intensity that the threats posed by global warming, systemic racism, and other forms of social injustice are so serious that directors and officers must cease to focus their corporate governance on the maximization of shareholder wealth and must instead… |
Rob Williams, Charles Schwab If you've retired but are considering returning to work, be aware that your decision may affect your tax situation, Social Security and Medicare benefits. |
Jeffrey Kleintop, Charles Schwab While it's very early to say the rise in inflation has passed, there are signs that the fastest part of the rebound in inflation might soon be over. |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Financial Network Happy birthday to the Dow! Commonwealth CIO Brad McMillan celebrates the index and what it has meant for the stock market and investors. |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Schwab Retirement planning is important for everyone, but retiring military have unique planning challenges. Here's why. |
Ethan Yang, AIER "Unilaterally and arbitrarily shutting down all of economic and social life was never part of the solution, nor should it ever be. Covid-19 has been the first test for these experimental lockdown policies and no rational observer should look back at the results and conclude that this is all... |
Russell Redenbaugh & James Juliano, Kairos Capital Management |
Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca, PS The Biden administration's ambitious spending and investment programs are precisely what the US economy needs to thrive in the twenty-first century. Best of all, the economic strategy now being pursued at the national level has already proven highly successful in the country's wealthiest, most dynamic state. |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar From institutions to individual investors. |
Eric Boehm, Reason Industrial policy is the wrong answer to a problem that mostly doesn't exist. |
Neil Irwin, NYT For all the administration's focus on transformational policies, it's not forecasting an outburst of economic potential. |
Bryce Coward, Knowledge Leaders The US dollar is on the verge of breaking down to the lowest level since 2014. This is not all that surprising. After all, the US money supply continues to grow at a rapid pace relative to other countries and quantitative easing is likely to... |
Hillel Italie, The Christian Science Monitor Independent bookstores proved surprisingly resilient during the year of lockdown with the help of new loans and participation in online markets. Now owners are taking stock from lessons learned and rethinking what it means to be a "bookstore" and whom they serve. |
Steven Malanga, City Journal Unions recorded steep membership declines last year, especially in states with the severest pandemic shutdowns. |
Michael Lewis, CFA Institute Why did the United States fail in its pandemic response? |
Ben Carlson, AWOCS Things are so much different than just a few years ago. |
Jessica Sidman, Washingtonian And how wages and salaries are actually changing |
Robby Berman, Big Think A new agricultural revolution could forever change the planet. |
Camila Domonoske, NPR A set of events shook the oil world this week: A tiny shareholder won a battle with Exxon, investors put pressure on Chevron and a Dutch court ordered Shell to slash emissions. |
Jamie Catherwood, Investor Amnesia Visualizing History From the Archives Facts, Failures, and Frauds (1859) A 19th century account of financial... |
Jana Kasperkevic, ProMarket Economist Daniel Cohen explores the emergence of the digital society and its never-ending pursuit for growth. |
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