08/27/2021
Today Conor Dougherty, New York Times To ease an affordability crisis, the Legislature voted to open suburbs to development, allowing two-units on lots long reserved for single-family homes. |
Howard Husock,Hill This is not the time to give dysfunctional public housing authorities an infusion of cash without conditions. |
Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Seventeen years ago, when Adriana Nichols moved from New York City to Los Angeles, she had a simple wish list: natural light (her New York studio apartment was dark), a yard and quiet neighbors. She managed to check everything off that list -- and has spent nearly two decades living in the canyons of LA. |
Sen. Mike Braun, Washington Examiner Though the PRO Act lacks sufficient Democratic support to pass the Senate through regular order, employers and workers should be on guard for those pushing the PRO Act to enact its anti-worker, anti-small business reforms by any means necessary. |
John McGinnis, Law & Liberty John McGinnis examines President Biden's efforts to abandon consumer welfare as the touchstone of antitrust policy. |
Paul Katzeff, Investor's 3 Ways To Figure Out How Much You Need To Save For Retirement |
Jeffrey Snider, RCM At the end of every August, key central bankers from the US and around the world gather in Jackson Hole. This year, like last year, they'll do so "virtually." Before each annual gathering we will be told to listen closely to what these people are saying, so consequential each and every word. And this year it will literally be a single word. Taper. Who cares? |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments Don't overreact to whatever the Fed chair says at this week's big central banker confab. |
Yana Pashaeva, Slate And Delta Air Lines offers a costly loophole. |
David Woo, RealClearMarkets Wall Street is obsessed with COVID these days and rightly so. The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), based on surveys of supply-chain managers, is generally regarded by the financial market as the best overall leading indicator of economic cycles. The data for August released this week paint a picture of diverging momentum among some of the largest economies in the world, especially in the most important sector of these economies - the service sector: While the US service PMI fell again (to 55.2), its third consecutive month of decline, the Chinese service PMI jumped by more than four points... |
James Bovard, Am. Inst. for Economic Research "As historian John M. Barry, author of The Great Influenza, observed, 'When you mix politics and science, you get politics.' There is no safety in submission to fools, regardless of their pompous titles." ~ James Bovard |
Ivor Ichikowitz, RealClearMarkets The dust has still only begun to settle after one of the most harrowing assaults on South Africa's stability, its economy and its very social fabric. But recently amid a brisk South African winter, only days before we annually commemorated the legacy of our Rainbow Nation's founder, ‘Nelson Mandela Day', did thousands of people descend upon our streets, making off with everything from essential foodstuffs to luxury items. In the provinces of Gauteng and Kwa-Zula Natal, entire shopping centers were burnt to the ground after looters ransacked them, costing the nation in total over $3... |
Liz Ann Sonders, CS Last week, the S&P 500 was trading at an all-time high, but the underlying deterioration in breadth and non-confirmations by other indexes bears watching. |
Michiel Hoogeveen, Brussels Report In the Netherlands, almost every millennial knows someone who has no other choice than to live with his or her parents. The Dutch housing shortage has made a house unaffordable. |
Frank Moraes, Commodity.com Agriculture is more productive each year even as its share of the whole economy decreases. See the 15 states most dependent on agriculture. |
James Picerno, The Capital Spectator Even if inflation is peaking, pricing pressure could remain elevated for an extended period. |
Michael Kades, ProMarket Although not the sole cause of high prescription drug costs, abusive practices that distort competition contribute to the problem. |
Lindsay Grimm, ISN The Inspection Support Network is the most trusted home inspection software solution. With an incomparable portfolio of easy-to-use tools, ISN enables inspectors to simplify, streamline, and grow their businesses. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Dylan Grice, The Market All people are driven by incentives, including senior officials at the most powerful central banks. A look at Jerome Powell's portfolio shows what incentives might drive the chairman of the Federal Reserve. |
Eric Compton, Morningstar Several funds see value in technology, energy, and communication services. |
Tsvetana Paraskova, OilPrice.com The global push to "electrify everything" is facing a number of challenges, and it will come at a high cost to both consumers and governments alike |
Rebecca Leber, Vox A clean electricity standard in the infrastructure plan could be "the biggest change in our energy policy since the lights went on." |
Christopher F. Rufo, City Journal Verizon teaches employees that America is fundamentally racist and promotes "defunding the police." |
Neil Irwin, New York Times When the economy hits hard times, survey data shows, people are less likely to worry about the environment. |
Peter Suderman, Reason To spend a lot of money, or to spend a lot more money? That is the question. |
Anna North, Vox What if paid work were no longer the centerpiece of American life? |
Matthew C. Klein, The Overshoot Rising human prosperity can be be ecologically sustainable. De-growth is anti-human. |
Adam M. Grossman, HumbleDollar It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Steve Overholt, Master Resource When I heard Joe Biden say in a presidential debate that he wants to "transition away" from petroleum by 2050, I wished I were there to respond. Here's what I would have said: "We have to make things, Joe!" |
Amy Arnott, MStar We take a closer look at popular retirement savings estimates. |
Nick Maggiulli, Of Dollars And Data Why prices are more important than fundamentals most of the time. |
Austin Vernon, Eth Rural America is about to undergo a huge change. |
Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution What if they gave a job and nobody came? |
Kevin Kelly, Warp News Kevin Kelly is the founder of Wired Magazine and author of several books, among them The Inevitable. For Warp News he presents his case for optimism. |
Claire Jones, FT Alphaville At first glance, the economic headlines make for some mixed messages. |
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