06/07/2021
Today Roger Cochetti, The Hill As the work-from-home trend grows, it's likely that electronic home surveillance will become an important part of the debate. |
Kyle Smith, NYP Getting back in the groove of going to the office will yield all sorts of psychological, emotional and even economic benefits. |
John Tamny, Forbes Growth spasms that will end the cruel currency devaluations that are as old as money is. |
Edward Pinto & Tobias Peter, RCM The pandemic has upended many aspects of life from the way we shop, how we connect with friends or business partners, or where we work. For the moment, it also appears to have changed preferences for where people want to live with profound implications for the future. Before the pandemic, people highly valued and were willing to pay up for homes with a high level of walkability, that is the ability to complete most of life's daily errands on foot as measured by Redfin's Walk Score®. We reported in February 2020 that properties with walkability had a utility for which buyers were willing to... |
Martin Kulldorff, Spiked Martin Kulldorff on the necessity of challenging the Covid consensus. |
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times The lab-leak hypothesis for COVID-19 is getting lots of attention, but there remains no evidence for the claim that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory in China or anywhere else. |
Jeffrey Tucker, RCM Early on in the pandemic lockdowns, I got a call from a friend in Texas. He reported that local hospitals were furloughing nurses, and the parking lot was completely empty. I didn't believe it. This was a pandemic. How could this be true? News was filled with reports of crowding within several hospitals in New York - even if a 1,000-bed Navy hospital was mostly used - and one had the impression that this was probably happening all over the country. It wasn't. The problem was local and short term, but most of the country never faced a hospital capacity problem. After hanging up the phone... |
Dan Eberhart, Washington Examiner Oil producers are ramping up drilling and fracking activity, preparing to push domestic production near to pre-pandemic levels of 13 million barrels a day by the end of 2023 — if the Biden administration doesn't get in the way. |
Jay Caauwe, American Consequences You don't think weed motivates? U.S. cannabis sales reached $15 billion in 2020, while industry employment could reach 300,000 jobs this year. |
Julia Horowitz, CNN Looking to fund big spending projects at home, the United States has an ambitious pitch for countries around the world: It's time to overhaul the global tax system. |
Terry Haines, Pangaea June 5's ballyhooed G7 ‘agreement' to a 15% minimum corporate tax really is nothing of the sort. Today's G7 ministers' "commitment" - the actual word used, and thus not an agreement - is an airy-fairy expression of intent by ministers with no ability to bind their governments or legislatures. Today, we think the US Congress likely doesn't agree, as detailed below. Today's "commitment" has to negotiate so many hurdles over such a long period of time that any immediate market impact should be incremental at most. Markets are used to seeing these sorts of hopeful multilateral... |
Joy Lanzendorfer, USA Today Why overworking and workaholism is actually terribly destructive and the attitude towards it needs to change. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Liz Ann Sonders, Schwab Peak growth rates for the economy and earnings are likely behind us, setting the economy up for a boom-settle scenario in the second half of the year. |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth May marked a transition back to normality. How will this success affect us in June? Commonwealth CIO Brad McMillan considers a fitting end to the pandemic. |
Ryan Detrick, LPL Financial Research Market Blog Wednesday, June 2, 2021 |
Bret Swanson, American Enterprise Institute |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Schwab Most families don't pay the sticker price for college, but don't put off saving. Consider a 529—and start early. |
Ben Casselman, New York Times The ebbing of the pandemic has brought price increases, supply bottlenecks and labor shortages. Key indicators will show whether it's just a stage. |
Catherine Rampell, WaPo If there were plenty of reasons to avoid these tariffs three years ago, there are even more reasons to scrap them today. |
Kenneth Rogoff, Project Syndicate Although prominent cryptocurrency advocates are politically connected and have democratized their base, regulators simply cannot sit on their hands forever. Malicious ransomware attacks targeting growing numbers of firms and individuals could prove to be the tipping point. |
Daniel Lippman, Politico Amazon Web Services is snapping up former government officials who can help them gain access to lucrative federal contracts. |
Staff, The Economist American and Chinese businesses have left their European counterparts in the dust | Briefing |
Laurent Belsie, CSM For many Americans, one result of pandemic career upheaval is that retirement has come sooner than planned – while others no longer feel ready. |
Peter Suderman, Reason The White House chose not to include cost estimates for a number of big-ticket health care policies—while still expressing support for them. |
Veronique de Rugy, Reason The spending plan demonstrates an unwillingness to govern and a preference for pandering to special interests. |
Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution Two administrations have tried to control the solar industry with tariffs. They both failed. |
Connie Loizos, TechCrunch SPAC sponsors are going after companies they already hold stakes in. |
James Picerno, The Capital Spectator The US dollar is the worst choice for the global reserve currency except for all the alternatives. |
Michael D. Farren, Reason Using the process of elimination, the culprit seems clear. |
Louise Johns, Ars Technica Bring wild bison to the Great Plains, restore one of the world's most endangered ecosystems. |
Joel Kotkin, Quillette The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the world economy in ways that will be debated by pundits and future historians for decades to come. Yet, as hard as it is to predict a disrupted future accura… |
Tim Kreider, The Atlantic I have gotten acclimated to a different existence. |
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