06/02/2021
Today James Surowiecki, MSNBC America loves to hate Elizabeth Holmes. But are her lies that different from iconic entrepreneurs who actually made it? |
Ira Stoll, New York Sun President Biden often talks about how his father used to tell him "Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity." It's ironic, because on Mr. Biden's watch, a war on work is gathering momentum. "Working Less Is a Matter of |
Daniel Alpert, NYT But it's helping people finally be picky about turning down lousy jobs. |
Joe Calhoun, Alhambra Investments The US economy is still stuck in the stall its been in since early spring. Sometime in mid-March everything just seems to have gone into suspended animation. Interest rates and the copper/gold ratio stopped rising. Real interest rates (TIPS) stopped rising. The US dollar started falling. But nothing has fallen so far as to warrant |
Michael Cannivet, Forbes If it were a horror movie, they might call it: "Return of the Killer Meme Stocks." Similar to earlier this year, big returns in meme stocks have brought scary P&L pain to the hedge fund community. Didn't they learn their lesson in January? |
Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch Profit margins play an underappreciated role in propping up the stock market. |
Amar Bhide, Harvard Business Review The economy needs careful decision-makers as well as risk-takers. |
Donald Boudreaux, AIER "The world would in fact be a much better place if economic fallacies were less prevalent and less widespread. Not the least of these fallacies is the one that holds that economies fail to the extent that they don't protect existing jobs." ~ Donald J. Boudreaux |
Walter Block, RealClearMarkets Robert Reich really wants to tax the rich. No more namby pamby taxation for the plutocrats insofar as far as he is concerned. Before we dig into his seven suggestions for ripping off the most productive of us, consider these facts: The wealthiest 1 percent of the population in 2020 paid 38.5 percent of all taxes. This is more than the total for the lowest 90 percent of the population, which was 29.9 percent. As for income tax rates, the exploiters weighed in at 26.8 percent; this compares to 4 percent for the 50 percent of the people at the bottom of the income distribution. The former is... |
Paul Davidson, USA Today Most companies plan to reopen offices by October, but many employees will be able to continue working from home over the long term. |
Ella Nilsen, Vox A national green bank could be a game changer. |
Jeffrey Tucker, RealClearMarkets Since the great, or actually miserable, lockdowns of March 2020, I've had a sense of foreboding. I recall thinking that there was no way something this contrary to all American values could happen - imposed by a tiny elite, a centralized pandemic plan we were forced to accept without evidence - without some gigantic blowback. In April of that year, I filed a report of what I expected the blowback to look like. I predicted a revolt against Zoom life, a resentment against the media and the political establishment, an increased loathing of intellectuals, a new frugality, and a huge pushback... |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Rob Williams, Charles Schwab If you've retired but are considering returning to work, be aware that your decision may affect your tax situation, Social Security and Medicare benefits. |
Jeffrey Kleintop, Charles Schwab While it's very early to say the rise in inflation has passed, there are signs that the fastest part of the rebound in inflation might soon be over. |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Financial Network Happy birthday to the Dow! Commonwealth CIO Brad McMillan celebrates the index and what it has meant for the stock market and investors. |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Schwab Retirement planning is important for everyone, but retiring military have unique planning challenges. Here's why. |
Luke Wachob, Hill Should the IRS spend public resources to collect sensitive personal information it doesn't want or need? |
VP Kamala Harris, Forbes The pandemic has prompted a surge in entrepreneurship. The United States' first female, Black and Asian-American vice president shares her ideas on how to leverage this moment to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to pursue the American Dream. |
David Howard, Washington Examiner Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans have looked to housing as a way to shelter from uncertainty while adjusting to new realities of working and schooling from home. As demand for housing has surged over the past year, it's become clear that too many people have been priced out of housing… |
Conor Dougherty & Ben Casselman, NYT For years, people most wanted to live in places where it was the hardest to build. Now, with a rise in remote work, exurban areas look more appealing. |
Diksha Madhok, CNN India's economy was turning a corner earlier this year as the country started to accelerate out of the recession it suffered in 2020. But a disastrous surge in Covid-19 cases threatens that progress. |
Richard Ebeling, AIER "The United States is in dangerous waters if it becomes 'general wisdom' and 'popular opinion' among public policy analysts and politicians that governments can spend all they want, in any amount, by just running huge annual budget deficits and expanding the national debt because it can all be... |
Ron Paul, American Consequences One truth emerges from the past year: the U.S. government has leveraged the COVID-19 crisis to gain even more power and control of our lives. |
Sean Illing, Vox Higher education may not be doomed, but it's in trouble. |
Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca, PS The Biden administration's ambitious spending and investment programs are precisely what the US economy needs to thrive in the twenty-first century. Best of all, the economic strategy now being pursued at the national level has already proven highly successful in the country's wealthiest, most dynamic state. |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar From institutions to individual investors. |
Eric Boehm, Reason Industrial policy is the wrong answer to a problem that mostly doesn't exist. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Robert Bradley, Master Resource ExxonMobil switched strategies from principle to appeasement early in the first term of President Obama. I have watched, step-by-step, a great corporation become mediocre for the first time in its storied history. |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense Wealth means different things to different people. |
Ed Yardeni, Dr. Ed's Blog While the debate rages on over whether inflation is transitory or long lasting, there's no debating that an enormous amount of liquid asset... |
Jamie Powell, Financial Times |
Michael Lewis, CFA Institute Why did the United States fail in its pandemic response? |
Ben Carlson, AWOCS Things are so much different than just a few years ago. |
Jessica Sidman, Washingtonian And how wages and salaries are actually changing |
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