06/15/2021
Today Eswar Prasad, New York Times Its value is volatile. Its users aren't as anonymous as they think. It might be a threat to the environment. And it could be exacerbating inequality. |
Allison Schrager, Bloomberg Last summer I met up with two friends for dinner at an outdoor restaurant. I hadn't seen much of them in the early months of the pandemic because they were afraid to venture out. One said meeting up felt like "we're playing Russian Roulette with our lives." |
Jeffrey Tucker, RealClearMarkets Last year presented the shock of our lives, the near-end of anything we call human liberty in the US (but for one lonely state of 50), all in the name of virus control. I was party to a strategy that successfully helped fight the lockdowns, and it taught me some valuable lessons about the role of ideas in realizing change. I had hoped that the fires of liberty, burning within the hearts of the American public, would have been strong enough to stop this kind of tyranny from being visited upon us. I would have predicted massive pushback, but it did not happen for a good part of the year.... |
Rainer Zitelmann, Washington Examiner Since the dawn of anti-capitalism, the free market's opponents have been waiting for the great crisis that will bring about its final collapse. |
Joe Calhoun, Alhambra Investments I told you last week that there were strange things going on in the labor market but I had no idea how much of an understatement that really was. Much of last week's economic focus was on the inflation report but I think the JOLTS report may turn out to be more significant. Inflation was |
Caren Merrick, The Hill Companies will have to take greater ownership over the development of their own workforces. |
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times ProPublica's tax investigation shows why billionaires should be taxed on their wealth. |
John Tamny, American Consequences The outcry for plutocrats 'paying a fair share' in taxes misses one point: sound private investment money ends up squandered by Washington. |
Jerusalem Demsas, Vox The boogeyman isn't who you want it to be. |
Steven Milloy, RCM Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell recently announced that the U.S. central bank will not be implementing climate policy. Such a statement should not be necessary. But it is welcome given the Fed's recent moves toward becoming a tool of climate activists. At a meeting of central bank leaders last week, European Central Bank president Christine LaGarde set the tone by stating, "We have to commit now, we have to deliver fast, and I think we have to implement decisively" on combatting global warming. |
Rupert Darwall, RealClearEnergy By any standard, the London meeting of finance ministers of the Group of Seven leading Western economies a week before the G7 leaders' summit was historic. By committing to transformative struct |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments A lesson in how to put seemingly big headlines in context. |
Cooper Howard, Charles Schwab We see several potential tailwinds for municipal bonds in the second half of the year. |
Rob Williams, Charles Schwab Traditional and Roth IRAs have distinct requirements, including eligibility and contribution limits. Here's a guide to help you decide what's best for you. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Jeffrey Kleintop, Schwab The recovery is now over; a new global economic expansion has begun. The new economic cycle has seen stock market leadership pass from the U.S. to Europe. |
Mike Brown, Expertise An Expertise.com survey revealed how many young Americans rushed to buy life insurance during the pandemic & are now regretting the decision. |
Dan Ferris, American Consequences When it comes to the meme stocks of AMC and Gamestop, the best move as an investor is to watch from the sidelines. |
Kailey Hagen, Motley Fool If you want to retire early without paying penalties, you need to read this. |
Nicole Narea, Vox Employers need to be able to hire both foreign and American workers in order to bounce back. |
Editorial, New York Post Bidenomics is proving an utter disaster for American workers and consumers, and don't bet on it to end soon. With the pandemic all but over — more than half of American adults are fully vaccin… |
Samuel Gregg, Law & Liberty Sam Gregg shows that the triumph of free trade in the British Empire holds lessons for winning the current battle against protectionism. |
Bill McKibben, New York Times The fight over the pipeline will be, at least for now, where Biden's climate commitment will be judged. |
Charlotte Whelan, Washington Examiner On Wednesday, the Canadian pipeline company that was building the Keystone XL pipeline canceled the project. This isn't surprising: President Joe Biden spared no time to revoke the pipeline's permit through an executive order. |
David Hickton, The Hill The U.S. has relied on the private sector as the frontline of cybersecurity defenses without imposing commonsense, mandatory standards. |
Mohamed A. El-Erian, Project Syndicate Given recent history, policymakers would be unwise merely to hope for a best-case scenario in which a strong and quick economic recovery redeems the enormous run-up in debt, leverage, and asset valuations. Instead, they should now act now to moderate the finance sector's excessive risk-taking. |
John Cochrane, The Grumpy Economist This spring's spurt of inflation clearly already means one thing: The end of "the end of inflation." |
Susan Dziubinski, Morningstar These narrow-moat names are all up twice as much as the market this year, yet remain undervalued by our metrics. |
Jerusalem Demsas, Vox The boogeyman isn't who you want it to be. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Edward Harrison, Credit Writedowns As I write this, the US 10-year Treasury bond is yielding 1.457%, well under the trading range it had established during this quarter. And there are a lot of theories as to why this is happening. |
Jessica Hamlin, II In a new report, a Willis Towers Watson portfolio manager challenges common investor assumptions about real assets. |
Lauren Solberg, Morningstar These wide-moat stocks are currently undervalued. |
Bill McBride, Calculated Risk These indicators are mostly for travel and entertainment. It will interesting to watch these sectors recover as the pandemic subsides. ... |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense Just as Netflix forced Disney into streaming, Tesla forced Ford (and others) into the EV space. Tesla may have awakened a giant in Ford. |
Erica Pandey, Axios Workers have had more than a year to reconsider work-life balance or career paths. |
Bill Emmott, Project Syndicate With new variants emerging rapidly and new outbreaks in places that had seemed to have the virus under control, COVID-19 remains a global problem. But the recent sharp increase in vaccine supplies indicates that the global solution we need is well within reach. |
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