07/01/2021
Today Reuven Brenner, Asia Times This article is the first in a three-part series. It all happened before: 30 years ago, both American and foreign observers were obsessed about Japan leapfrogging the US, just as they are now … |
Barry Lynn, Foreign Affairs Magazine From the early days of the republic, antimonopolism has been the key to the United States' strategic vision. |
John Tamny, RCM In the world of investing there's a saying about "renting" Warren Buffett's name. Since an investment by Buffett has a tendency to boost the share price of the company invested in, he's long been able to command good terms ahead of committing capital to a corporation. These terms include warrants that position Buffett to buy shares in the future at potentially steep discounts. Companies are said to readily agree to Buffett's terms. Again, it's a good deal. His reputation as a stock picker means businesses get a boost when the Oracle of Omaha associates himself with them. |
Michael Farren, Hill If we further limit government's ability to plunder one person for another's benefit, the future will be even brighter. |
Rashida Tlaib & Eduardo Suplicy, NYT A robust and inclusive safety net more than pays for itself. |
Rob Smith, RCM A great struggle is upon us. The ideals of the West are under attack. The unwashed barbarian hordes are at the gate. This army, led by the Prince of Darkness has no other agenda than to tear down and destroy. Its foot soldiers are under the Prince's spell, for he is a clever liar. Manipulating the ignorant and unlearned is easy, especially for him. The rabble cries for justice, but their movement marches to only one inevitable ending, that of slavery and destitution for all. Sadly, these soldiers know nothing of the treasures of Western thought and ideals. They are easily manipulated. This is... |
Christopher Wong, Fisher Get yourself an adviser who challenges, not rubberstamps, your investing ideas. |
Anneken Tappe, CNN It's the half-way point of the year and President Joe Biden's stock market has quite the rally to show for itself: The S&P 500 closed at a record high Wednesday and has already reached the target some analysts set for the entire year. |
Rep. Kevin Hern, WE Republicans passed a historic tax overhaul called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017. The reason? Our tax code hadn't been updated since the 1980s, even though the way we lived and did business was totally different. As a result, we unleashed economic growth that put more money in people's pockets,… |
Paul Katzeff, Investor's Business If you want your retirement planning to hit the jackpot, should you use alternative investment strategies like bets on Bitcoin price swings? |
Amelia Janaskie & Ryan Yonk, AIER "Ultimately, these early findings reinforce the core difficulty that policy planners face. Planners can never know enough to plan for every eventuality, nor can they accurately predict what their plans will actually do. As a result, plans often end up based on a 'pretense of knowledge' rather... |
Matthew Kandrach, RCM When Cars.com released its annual "American-Made" rankings of new cars and trucks this month, some might have been surprised to learn that half of the top-20 were marques not generally thought of as "American." Chevrolet, Ford, GMC, Jeep, Lincoln, and Tesla all made it into the index's top echelon of vehicles that have both a high percentage of domestically sourced content and are assembled in the United States. But so did models from Acura, Honda, Lexus, and Toyota, nameplates that are definitely not considered "domestic." |
Wayne Crews, Competitive Enterprise Institute |
Russell Redenbaugh & James Juliano, Kairos Capital Management |
Rob Arnott, Vitali Kalesnik & Lillian Wu, Research Affiliates Tesla entered the S&P 500 Index on December 21, 2020. Over the next six months, AIV, the stock deleted to make way for TSLA, outperformed TSLA by a stupendous margin—exactly as we expected, based on our research. Index rebalances impose a variety of costs on investors. Smarter index design could go far to mitigate these costs. |
Michael Iachini, Charles Schwab An index ETF-only portfolio can be a straightforward yet flexible investment solution. |
Benjamin Yount, The Center Square (The Center Square) – The latest snapshot of Wisconsin businesses once again shows there are a lot of open jobs and not a lot of people to fill them. |
Jeffrey Kleintop, Charles Schwab It's possible that good data could be interpreted as bad news for U.S. markets in the near-term as strong economic data could prompt the Fed to unwind earlier. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Jordan Weissmann, Slate Forget the inflation scolds. Ignore the small-business Scrooges. There's a very different story in the data. |
Matt Egan, CNN Unemployment is shrinking. The stock market is booming. Americans are returning to the skies and even to movie theaters. And yet Republicans are deeply worried about the state of the economy. |
Yanis Varoufakis, Project Syndicate The claim that capitalism is being toppled by a new economic mode comes on the heels of many premature forecasts of capitalism's demise, especially from the left. But this time it may well be true, and the signs that it is have been visible for a while. |
Gilad Edelman, Wired A judge dealt the Federal Trade Commission a setback this week in its quest to break the company up—but also provided a roadmap for how to proceed. |
Cecilia Kang, New York Times Not since the government sued to break up Microsoft in the late 1990s has there been greater demand for people who know the ins and outs of corporate competition law. |
Tsvetana Paraskova, OilPrice.com With the perfect combination of high oil prices and more conservative capital expenditure, U.S. shale firms are on track to see record profits in 2021 |
Jemima Kelly, FT News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication |
David Eifrig, American Consequences Nothing beats a government pension. But like a lot of cliches and 20th century thinking about finances, is that idea even valid anymore? |
Aaron Carroll, New York Times The United States has always needed mandates to overcome serious diseases |
Sheila Holt, The American Thinker Now that genetically modified mosquitos have been unleashed upon Florida in a |
Samuel Gregg, Law & Liberty Samuel Gregg reviews Peter J. Boettke, Alexander Salter, and Daniel J. Smith's Money and the Rule of Law. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Andrew Liszewski, Gizmodo I'm not willing to jump through all the hoops needed to make my home barely smarter. |
Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund The more perfect you try to become the more vulnerable you are. |
Sam Ro, Axios The Fed has been purchasing $40 billion worth of mortgage-backed securities each month. |
Ironman, Political Calculations New home sale prices have reached record highs. Fueled by strong demand, you would think homebuilders are making record amounts of cash with home prices at their highest-ever levels. Not so much. |
Simon Montlake, CSM Rebuilding roads and rails is a major topic in Washington. A tale from Boston shows why America has fallen behind – and what it needs to fix. |
Scott Grannis, Calafia Beach Pundit Why rising inflation is probably not transient. |
Jemima Kelly, Financial Times If a big holder of bitcoin dies the only thing that matters to other bitcoiners is whether his bitcoin is recoverable. |
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