05/22/2020
Today John Tierney, City Journal For economist Robert Higgs, Covid-19 is just the latest emergency justifying expanded government power. |
Andrew Wilford, RCM Shortly after the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, some reporters seized on a provision that harmonized tax treatment of net operating losses, declaring it a... |
Paul R. La Monica, CNN Move over Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase. Most big financial stocks have been decimated this year, but asset management giant BlackRock, the owner of the popular iShares family of exchange traded funds is thriving. |
Paul Krugman, New York Times In a pandemic, Trump is reverting to type. |
Alex Berenson, Fox News Social media giants are tightening censorship against people who protest coronavirus lockdowns and raise evidence the virus may be less risky than initially thought. |
James Bovard, American Institute for Economic Research |
Zachary Karabell, Time The coronavirus outbreak has exposed the shambles of how the U.S. has structured its safety nets since the Great Depression. |
John Tamny, RCM "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." - C. Northcote Parkinson, Parkinson's Law Politicians are much smarter than they appear. Think about it. For decades... |
Sarah Jones, New York Magazine Drastic times demand creative solutions. But some lawmakers and wonks think we're all stuck in 2008. |
Bonner Cohen, RCM Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee marked the 50th anniversary of Earth Day by attacking the Environmental Protection Agency. The lawmakers took issue with the... |
Maurie Backman, Motley Fool COVID-19 isn't just wreaking havoc on Americans' near-term finances; it's also putting their long-term financial security at risk. Not only have retirement plan values plunged since the pandemic took hold, but those who are out of work are likely pausing retirement plan contributions until their income picks back up. |
Mitch Tuchman, MarketWatch Too much flexibility is dangerous, Jack Bogle warned |
Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab On a day that started with good news on an experimental COVID-19 vaccine, with the stock market showing strong early gains, today's report is more visual and less wordy than normal. |
Richard Salsman, American Institute for Economic Research |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Eric Kober, Manhattan Institute Office-based businesses have long been cutting back on expensive space, as employees switched from offices to cubicles. |
Richard Salsman, Cato Journal |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments A look at the developed world's reopening progress outside the US. |
Dan Eberhart, CNN Business A bailout would just undermine the market forces needed to strengthen the industry long term. |
Geoffrey Garrett, Knowledge@Wharton |
Willem H. Buiter, Project Syndicate With a global depression looming, no country will be able to avoid the need for massive stimulus spending and the explosion of debt that will come with it. While advanced economies have creative options for managing these claims, it is already obvious that developing countries will need a more radical solution. |
Eric Boehm, Reason In a Senate floor speech Wednesday, Hawley outlined a half-baked plan to tear down global trade. It's aimed at winning elections, not helping America prosper. |
Christine Benz, Morningstar If the past few months have given you more time for introspection, use it to improve your financial plan in a big-picture way. |
Heather Perlberg, BusinessWeek Investors have been buying up doctor’s offices, cutting costs, and, critics say, putting pressure on physicians in ways that hurt patients. The pandemic could make things even worse. |
Charu Sudan Kasturi, Ozy Major nations are weaponizing prospective vaccines as strategic assets against rivals. That approach could return to haunt them. |
Howard Gold, MarketWatch He?s lost more than $7 billion on terrible investments in Kraft Heinz, Occidental and four airlines |
Wayne Crews, Forbes While "good cause" and other Administrative Procedure Act provisions have been exploited to expand government regulatory power, President Trump's new Executive Order on Regulatory Relief to Support Economic Recovery is uniquely using the same clauses to eliminate red tape in response to crisis. |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments While the specifics will vary from nation to nation, China's April data help set expectations for what awaits reopening economies. |
Sherisse Pham, CNN Mukesh Ambani wants to build the next global technology company. And if he plays his cards right, his mobile carrier and technology juggernaut JioPlatforms could soon hold rank alongside the likes of Google, Amazon, Alibaba and Tencent. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense Dividends are one of the most underrated sources of portfolio income. |
Scott Sumner, The Money Illusion Conspiracy theories are a powerful drug, as Penn Jillette once observed (in a Joe Rogan interview.) So powerful that people rarely stop to consider how implausible many of the claims actually are. |
Matthew Yglesias, Vox Voters don't like deficits, and they really hate the gas tax. |
Macromon, Global Macro Monitor REITs can be an essential part of your portfolio. |
James Picerno, The Capital Spectator The coronavirus crisis has reordered expectations and valuations in global markets, but searching for the deepest discounts (based on negative return) delivers a familiar result: the commodities realm continues to offer the darkest shade of red. |
J.P. Koning, Moneyness Yemen has a dual currency system. |
Izabella Kaminska, FT Alphaville Covid-19 may be something known as a nosocomial disease. |
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