05/14/2020
Today Benjamin Zycher, RealClearMarkets While genuflecting to its fiduciary responsibility to "promote long-term value" for those whose assets it is managing, Blackrock---the largest asset manager in the world---has announced... |
Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times Looking for hope in San Francisco. |
Eric Levitz, New York Donald Trump has encouraged the Federal Reserve to fight the coronavirus recession by bringing benchmark interest rates below zero percent. Fed Chair Jerome Powell opposes negative interest rates. But the president has a decent case. |
John Tamny, RealClearMarkets Peter Thiel writes that "the value of a business today is the sum of all the money it will make in the future." This basic, pithy truth is too often forgotten when stock valuations are... |
Zamira Rahim, CNN As a disease, coronavirus disproportionately preys on the elderly. But Generation Z, at least in the short term, is set to bear the brunt of the ensuing financial chaos. |
Robert Pozen, The Hill Lawmakers needs to reinstate these critical rules for business losses. |
Christopher Rufo, New York Post The novel coronavirus has turned America upside-down, killing tens of thousands and laying waste to some 30 million jobs. We know the virus emerged from Wuhan, China, perhaps from a virology lab. |
Veronique de Rugy, American Institute for Economic Research Like every crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic has opened the door to all sorts of ideas. Some of these ideas are good, but many of them are terrible. The undoubtedly worst idea of all, though, is that this pandemic was caused and aggravated by globalization and free markets. |
Steven Greenhut, TAS Sacramento Our potentate, Gavin Newsom, announced plans early this week for a reopening of California society â?" at least that's... |
Thomas Kirchner & Paul Hoffmeister, RealClearMarkets Since the beginning of the crisis, perma bears and perma bulls have disagreed about whether we are headed for a severe depression or whether there will be a rapid V-shaped recovery once the economy... |
Irina Slav, OilPrice.com 3D printing is one of the technologies of the future, and now researchers in the Department of Energy are trying to print the world's first nuclear reactor core |
Steve Forbes, What's Ahead Steve Forbes on why businesses must be shielded from the coming avalanche of meritless coronavirus lawsuits that could cripple their recovery and the litigation protection needed to give them the confidence to reopen and drive economic growth.Steve Forbes shares his What's Ahead Spotlights each Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. |
John Holt, Applied Finance Over the past 25 years, Applied Finance has studied market patterns and trends using millions of Valuations. The firm's live database goes back to 1998, with further data starting from the early 1990's. The two [...more] |
Rob Williams, Charles Schwab Important distinctions exist between traditional and Roth IRAs, including eligibility and contribution limits. Here's a guide to help you decide what's best for you. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Hayden Adams, Charles Schwab Was your tax refund smaller than in previous years? Did you owe more than usual? Here's why. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab Both the bear market and subsequent rally have occurred at warp speed; yet the economic recovery may be disappointing to what the market's now "priced in." |
Elizabeth Warren & Ro Khanna, CNN We have to protect these workers who are protecting us, and we must act with urgency. That's why we have introduced a 10-point proposal that we're calling the Essential Workers Bill of Rights, and it should be included in the next relief package. |
Rep. Katie Porter, MSNBC PPP loan grift is still happening. Congress must open the books â?Â" or corporate greed wins again. |
Betsy McCaughey, New York Post |
Robert Lighthizer, New York Times |
Rep. Jody Hice, USA Today The unprecedented lockdown of American society was executed with one primary goal in mind: preventing our hospitals and medical professionals from being overwhelmed by the new coronavirus. |
Bob Zadek, The Bob Zadek Show IDEAS NOT ATTITUDESmall government. Limited federal powers. End victimless crimes. |
Steve Goldstein, MarketWatch Famed investor Stanley Druckenmiller isn't high on stocks. |
Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch Most sentiment gauges are pessimistic, which is bullish for stock prices â?Â" to a point |
Don Boudreaux, AIER Sometimes simple arithmetic reveals realities that are both astonishing and astonishingly important. Such is the case for the arithmetic performed by this little button on every scientific calculator – including, no doubt, on the calculator you have on your smartphone: x! |
Gene Marks, The Hill Just a small tweak to the eight-week forgiveness period would put the program back on course to reach its goals. |
Andrew Afifian, Washington Examiner It should come as no surprise that the coronavirus pandemic is taking a larger economic toll on our most vulnerable populations. A 2016 study by Pew Research Center found that at $17,100, the median net worth of black households was less than one-fifth that of all U.S. households ($97,300), meaning they have much less in savings, if any, to rely on before being unable to pay for necessities. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Project Syndicate To those already predisposed to favor domestic production over international trade, the COVID-19 pandemic seems like a case in point. Yet a closer look at the facts shows that, if anything, the current crisis offers powerful evidence of why we need global supply chains and widely distributed production. |
Peter Dorman, EconoSpeak Donald Trump, cheering on his "warriors" who demand that states lift their lockdown and distancing orders (where they have them), would hav... |
Amy Whyte, Institutional Investor Week by week, institutional investors polled by II reveal rising alarm over the economic crisis. |
Peter Suderman, Reason Even in a healthy economy, rising debt and deficits posed challenges. The current crisis has magnified those problems. |
Michael Ballaban & Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Elon Musk truly entered the public consciousness just over a decade ago, when Tesla was a quirky upstart putting batteries in the chassis of a little Lotus sports car. Musk grew it into an electric powerhouse, building cars that he promised would one day drive themselves, with doors that swung upward much like the time machine from Back to the Future. |
John Cochrane, The Grumpy Economist Maybe we won't get a second wave. |
Howard Marks, Oaktree Capital Management All we don't know... |
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