04/16/2020
Today Owen Ullmann, USA Today President Donald Trump and his Republican allies are demonizing presumptive Democratic opponent Joe Biden as a left-wing socialist who would propel big government to take over our free enterprise system at the expense of our prosperity and freedom. When Biden was endorsed Monday by Sen. Bernie Sanders, who actually is a self-described democratic socialist, Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale called it “further proof that … Biden had to adopt most of Bernie’s agenda to be successful in the Democrat primaries.” Well, guess what? Trump has... |
Peggy Grande, Fox We need to support the president in making the tough, correct decision to reopen our economy as soon as it is safe to do so. |
Christine Romans, CNNMoney The way the president tells it, the American economy is like a light switch that he can simply flip on. He floated a full "beautiful" reopening by Easter Sunday. And when that deadline passed, he teased a "big bang" reopening at his discretion. He (falsely) says he has "total authority" to reopen the economy. |
John Tamny, RCM For fun, let's assume a mass declaration of freedom on local, state and national levels. If so, how many readers will immediately revert to the "old way" of doing things, including... |
E. Donald Elliott, The American Spectator "America" is a continent â?" actually two of them â?" but it is also a set of ideas, or, better... |
Matt Stieb, New York Magazine The White House reportedly failed to tell business leaders they would be part of Trump's Opening Our Country Council to determine how to revive the economy stalled by the coronavirus. |
Thomas Friedman, New York Times Congress needs to invest with an eye on the nation's future. |
Conrad Black, New York Sun |
Nigam Arora, MarketWatch There are seven reasons for that, including record federal and central-bank stimulus, unattractive investment alternatives such as bonds, and a reconfiguration of supply chains that will unleash a torrent of capital spending |
Market Minder, Fisher Mainstream data reports covering the social distancing era are still scant, but some niche, industry-specific indicators provide a handy real-time read. |
Ross Clark, Spectator USA |
Paul Katzeff, Investor's Business |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Allison Schrager, Manhattan Institute |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Reuven Brenner, Montreal Economic Institute The reason for the Spanish flu having had such a disastrous impact was that the two enemy coalitions fighting in WWI kept the information about the spreading flu secret. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Brandon Medina, Construction Coverage According to the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau, almost one-third of American households are considered cost-burdened, meaning they spend 30 perce |
Claus Wiemann Frølund, FEE |
Editorial, New York Times From the census to the November election, the Postal Service is critical to American democracy. |
Jason Pye, The Hill The economic devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic has l... |
Yuliya Panfil & Tim Robustelli, CNN Amid calls for social distancing and "shelter-in-place" orders, millions of Americans are now questioning how they will pay their rent or mortgage. |
Salena Zito, Washington Examiner MOON TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania â?" Help is on the way for airlines and airports, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao said. During the coronavirus pandemic, the suffering is obvious to anyone who walks into an airport like this one: Pittsburgh International Airport has seen passenger traffic in and out of the facility go from 26,000 people a day to fewer than 400 people boarding flights. |
Adam Shaw, Fox As daily life across America is upended by the coronavirus crisis -- with mass business closures plunging the economy into freefall -- one former New York Times reporter is sounding the alarm about what he believes are flawed models dictating the aggressive strategy. |
Michael Munger,American Institute for Economic Research |
Parissa Sedghi, Washington Examiner In recent weeks, Washington has failed Main Street yet again with its heavy-handed, one-size-fits-all approach to stopping the coronavirus pandemic. Yes, of course we should listen to health experts and continue to engage in social distancing and other safe practices: It's our duty to our fellow Americans, especially the most vulnerable. |
Eoin McSweeney, CNNMoney Workers are struggling with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Here are 16 of their stories. |
Conrad Black, New York Sun |
Peter Baker & Maggie Haberman, The New York Times The president's insistence that only he can decide if the country should reopen for business was disputed by constitutional scholars and contrasted with his earlier message that it was not for the federal government to take the lead in fighting the virus. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Jeff Carter, Points and Figures I am seeing more and more predictions about the future. Most are produced by Captain Obvious. For example, as a society, we will do more and more online. Duh. That trend was happening prior to the Wuhan Flu. |
Nick Maggiulli, Of Dollars & Data On the difficult path forward for value investors. |
John Cochrane, The Grumpy Economist The headlines are on the disease, the shutdown, and the hoped-for safe reopening. It's time to pay some attention to the financial side of the current situation. |
James Picerno, The Capital Spectator Long duration Treasuries have won big this year but junk bonds are hurting. |
Ed Yong, The Atlantic The fight against the coronavirus won’t be over when the U.S. reopens. Here’s how the nation must prepare itself. |
Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution What does premature mean anyway? |
Scott Grannis, Calafia Beach Pundit To date, the most consequential result of this novel coronavirus has come from the hand of government, thanks to multiple decrees from gover... |
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