05/27/2020
Today Richard Rahn, Washington Times Good news (please see the accompanying table)! If you are under 65, in reasonably good health and do not have a vitamin D deficiency, you have only a tiny chance of dying from COVID-19. And if you are younger than 34, your chances of dying from the virus are so small as to be almost statistically undetectable. On the other hand, if you are 85 or older, are in a nursing home, have serious health problems and a vitamin D deficiency, you may be in real danger if you are exposed to the virus — but only a tiny portion of the population is in such a condition. |
Jennifer Weiner, New York Times How do you decide who belongs in yours? What if you join and find it's not working out? And what if you aren't invited to one at all? |
John Tamny, RCM For those out there "sheltering in place for humanity," and who think skepticism about what you're doing is the stuff of anti-science mouth breathers, stop and think for a minute or... |
Halie Soifer, MSNBC This president's bizarre inaugural proclamation was out of place in 2017. But it wouldn't be for another president after the botched response to COVID-19. |
Michael Fumento, Just the News How a man who drank himself to death shamed a state health department into more transparent record keeping â?" and what it could mean for nationwide coronavirus mortality statistics. |
Steven Malanga, City Journal Instead of encouraging reform, Washington's new bailout bill rewards states and cities for bad fiscal practices. |
Richard Salsman, Hill Economics, like epidemiology, is a science; its theories and forecasts must be logically valid and empirically grounded. No science or data supports "stimulus" claims. |
Mark Perry, RCM Since the outbreak of COVID-19 and the restrictions implemented to stop its spread, a huge number of US businesses - from large to small - have been left reeling. Others, with the... |
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times The coronavirus crisis may mean that the time has come for the Universal Basic Income idea |
Editorial, USA Today If all goes according to plan and the weather permits, two U.S. astronauts will head to the International Space Station on Wednesday aboard a rocket built by SpaceX, the company started by maverick entrepreneur Elon Musk. |
Don Boudreaux, AIER What’s the purpose of financial markets? The conventional answer runs along these lines: Financial markets’ core function is to get resources from people who save to people who can use saved resources productively. |
Michael Brush, MarketWatch Industry insiders at these airlines are buying up shares of their companies |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Jerry Bowyer, Vident Financial |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments For the first time ever, German Chancellor Angela Merkel blesses joint EU bond issuance. |
Jerry Bowyer, Vident Financial |
Liz Ann Sonders & Jeffrey Kleintop & Kathy Jones, Charles Schwab Recent stock action suggests some investor exuberance is being worked off. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Max Gulker, AIER Depending on who you ask about the reopening of businesses beginning across the United States this week, we may have finally reached the light at the end of a self-imposed tunnel or be on the brink of a reckless leap into the abyss. Where both visions likely go wrong is their assumption of a climactic moment, where some are proven right and some wrong, and we turn the page on the COVID-19 pandemic that’s dominated our lives like few other events in recent memory. |
Salena Zito, The Examiner ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania â?" Long before the outbreak of the coronavirus, Americans wanted to buy, use, wear, eat, and build with more things made in this country. It was a sentiment that crossed party lines, generations, ethnic backgrounds, and geographical regions. |
Amie Parnes, The Hill Joe Biden is taking on President Trump over the economy.The former vice president's campai... |
Kacey Ernst & Paloma Beamer , MarketWatch What to consider amid coronavirus |
James Otteson, Law & Liberty James R. Otteson explores the concept of honorable business, and how schools might seek to teach it in their classrooms. |
Dan Proft, Dan Proft Show Comments on the presumed re-opening. |
Noah Manskar, New York Post The combined fortunes of America's billionaires ballooned by $434 billion during the coronavirus pandemic, including Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. |
Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian Combating elite Manhattan political ideologies on climate change, the purpose of government, New York state news, and the basic principles of economics. |
Editors, The Economist Explaining the stockmarket rally |
Eric Boehm, Reason.com A member of the five-month-old company's board has been touting bogus stats about America's supposed dependency on Chinese-made drugs. |
James Rainey, Los Angeles Times Many retailers and consumers fear handling dollars and cents during the coronavirus pandemic. Some experts say it will accelerate the transition to a cash-free U.S. economy. |
Dan Gelston, The Christian Science Monitor If sports fans return to stadiums, what rules will be in place? With social distancing and masks, history shows football could come back strong. While a full comeback to stadiums is a ways off, one thing is certain: Sports will return – just like they did in 1919. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Stephen Clapham, Behind The Balance Sheet We analyse Netflix's content spend and conclude its P&L charges look low and inconsistent with its policies. |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar Index funds delivered as promised. |
Jeffrey P. Snider, Alhambra Investments The numbers just don't add up. Even if you treat this stuff on the most charitable of terms, dollar for dollar, way too much of the hole almost certainly remains unfilled. That's the thing about "s? |
Hazel Sheffield, Institutional Investor The City of London shut down in a matter of hours. Will it ever return to its former vibrancy? |
Laura Entis, Vox Zoom and other video calling has become a primary form of social interaction. But sometimes they highlight what we've lost. |
Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch High-momentum stocks are losing their appeal, and that trend goes beyond the reversal of the last two months |
Joachim Klement, Enterprising Investor Things usually don't change as much you think they will. |
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