07/27/2020
Today Jessica Melugin, Examiner Alongside his fellow Big Tech CEOs, Jeff Bezos will appear before the House Judiciary Committee next Monday to testify about Amazon Marketplace's business practices with its third-party sellers. The occasion will make for entertaining political theater, but the expected line of inquiry is mostly without merit. |
Adam Brandon, USA Today While much of the American workforce remains at home, there are still many out there working hard to keep the lights on. America can’t afford to continue providing massive unemployment payments to some, while leaving Americans who continue to work high and dry. The least we can do for these Americans is give them a payroll tax cut. Stimulus payments have been horribly mismanaged, but a payroll tax cut would provide direct relief to hard-working Americans and businesses. |
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times True populists wouldn't be punishing workers by cutting their unemployment benefits |
John Tamny, Forbes For Rattner to lump this brilliant and kind person in with the ?gold bug? nuts is the equivalent of Shelton watching a Bernie Sanders speech, then presuming the Democrat in Rattner shares all of his views. |
Elizabeth Harris, New York Times Workers who have learned how to manage their finances and sock away some money are teaching colleagues and friends. |
Bilal Baloch , MW Many H-1B visa recipients become long-term contributors to the U.S. |
Roger Pilon & Aaron Rhodes, RCM A year ago, when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the creation of a Commission on Unalienable Rights to advise him on how America's human rights policy could be re-centered on the... |
Robert Wright, American Institute for Economic Research The latest investment fad is ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance), a type of “socially conscious” investor screen and investment fund category that grew out of SRI (socially responsible investing). Although presumably as novel as the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, long dead people like Armen Alchian, Milton Friedman, Julian Simon, and the Founding Fathers would have seen right through it. |
Rupert Darwall, Hill Biden has made a massive political bet on net zero and created an opportunity for President Trump to make a contrasting pitch to blue-collar and rural America. |
Katie Brockman, Motley Fool It's official: The country is in a recession. The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy, and with the number of COVID-19 cases rising quickly, it seems that this pandemic is far from over. Nearly half (46%) of Americans believe it will take at least two years for the economy to recover from the pandemic, according to a survey from Country Financial, but nobody knows exactly how long this recession will last. Whether you're nearing retirement or still have several years left in your career, there are a few ways the current recession could affect your... |
Henry Grabar, Slate The pandemic strikes at the heart of the city: its culture. |
Daniel Turner, Fox News Instead of helping Americans who need support the most, a significant portion of the PPP money is being used to fuel political agendas. |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Schwab Can you successfully answer five basic financial literacy questions? Test yourself. Then join Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz in her push for financial education. |
Jerry Bowyer, Vident Financial |
Jeffrey Kleintop, Charles Schwab If not extended or replaced, the fading support for the unemployed raises the risk of weakening economic momentum, turning the V-shaped recovery into a W. |
John West & Ari Polychronopoulos, Research Affiliates Applying the definition of factor robustness established by our Research Affiliates colleagues in their 2016 award-winning paper, we determine that ESG is not a factor. Nevertheless, the importance of ESG as an investing strategy is undeniable. We explore how greater clarity around defining ESG can quicken the pace of ESG integration in equity portfolios. |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Schwab Is it smart to save for retirement past age 70 if you're still working? Absolutelyâ?"especially with the new SECURE Act, says Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Jeff Erber, Grey Owl Capital Management |
Larry Swedroe, Advisor Perspectives How would Buffett be viewed if, instead of being the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, he ran an open-end mutual fund by the same name? |
Christopher Schelling, II Research shows that both short-term and chronic stress can negatively impact investment decisions. But there are ways to avoid making bad choices under duress. |
Christian Britschgi, Reason Democrats in Congress are floating plans for billions more in rental assistance, and a blanket nationwide moratorium on evictions to forestall a potential housing crisis during the pandemic. |
Leeza Osipenko, Project Syndicate Armed with big-data analytics, machine learning, and other novel methods, US Big Tech firms are getting into the health-care game, promising vast improvements in health outcomes and efficiency. What could possibly go wrong? |
Joe Nocera, MSN A writer explores how playing cards taught her to discipline her thinking and focus more on process than outcomes. |
Staff, The Economist As natural wealth is used up, economies will rely more on human capital |
Richard Samuelson, Claremont Review of Books If we really wish to remove names associated with slavery, one obvious candidate is New York City itself. |
Staff, The Economist An uncertain and uneven recovery explains their skyward leap |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Louis-Vincent Gave, Evergreen Gavekal Charles [Gave] never tires of reminding us that “reading the financial press is bad for your financial health.” Underpinning his belief isn’t just the old adage that “if it’s in the press, it’s in the price,” but also the reality that financial journalists are quick to declare any rising market, a “bubble.” |
Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes Biden versus Trump. Some speculate that the future of the republic hinges on the outcome of the next election. But for smart investors it doesn't really matter who wins. |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense Let’s say the government put $5,000 into a Roth IRA invested exclusively in the U.S. stock market for every American at birth that they couldn’t touch until age 21. Realistic? No. Expensive? Yes, but just go with it. |
Leah McGrath Goodman, Institutional Investor Hedge fund legends Paul Tudor Jones and Jim Simons are going one way on cryptocurrencies. The United States government is going another. |
Eric Boehm, Reason The horses used to belong to the Air Force, which makes only slightly more sense. |
Matthew Yglesias, Vox The economy could need trillions in support over a period of years. |
Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture It is still the wealthy that own the vast majority of investment assets. |
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