05/20/2020
Today Edward Pinto, RCM As of May 17, about 91,000 lives have been lost to the coronavirus. Notably, those aged 65 or older accounted for 80 percent of these deaths and residents or employees of long-term care... |
Paul Bland, The Hill Keeping courts open and available is the only way to ensure some corporations take seriously their responsibilities to protect their people. |
Michael Fumento, Just the News By not locking down, the Nordic outlier has in effect 'front-loaded' its deaths and decreased those deaths later on. |
Will Leitch, NYM It's probably not safe for sports like the NFL and NBA to return yet, but both executives and fans have shown before that they'll put entertainment over player safety. |
Jeffrey Tucker, American Institute for Economic Research For two to three months, Americans have suffered the loss of liberty, security, and prosperity in the name of virus control. The psychological impact has been beyond description. We thought we could count on basic rights and freedoms. Then over a few days in March, it all ended in ways hardly anyone could believe possible. |
David Bahnsen, NRO If you want to see free enterprise for all it is and all it will ever be, then rejecting the demonization of private equity is a good place to start. |
John Tamny, RCM The 4G revolution was truly transformative. With 4G, GPS-enabled smartphones increasingly standard, it became possible for companies like Uber, Lyft, Postmates and others to rewrite how we live, and... |
Justin Spittler, RiskHedge My phone has been ringing off the hook. Relatives and friends are reaching out to me. They want to know what I'm doing with my money. When I say I've been loading up on stocks, they can't believe it. |
Matt Egan, CNN America's stock market is signaling the economy will rapidly recover from the coronavirus crisis. |
Abram Shulsky & Blaise Misztal, RCM |
Allison Schrager, City Journal If policymakers take the right steps, the U.S. can reopen successfullyâ?"and get lots of those lost jobs back. |
Emily Cegielski, Worth As one of the most destructive business sectors, the fashion industry is poised for change, and COVID-19 might just be the catalyst it needs to become a more sustainable and ethical industry. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments A look at the developed world's reopening progress outside the US. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Brian Riedl, Manhattan Institute The coronavirus pandemic is currently projected to add $8 trillion in federal debt over the decade. |
Russell Redenbaugh & James Juliano, KCM |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Various, Volusion See which U.S. cities have the most self-employed workers |
Laura He, CNN Mutual blame over the coronavirus pandemic has reignited tensions between the United States and China, threatening to break what was already a fragile truce on trade between the world's biggest economies. |
Stephen Moore, The Hill Americans do not want the financial destruction of the lockdown. |
Rebecca Lake, U.S. News & World Report |
Howard Husock, New York Post It's much less expensive to simply combine recyclables with general refuse and send it all to landfills â?" which are now federally regulated. |
Paul Krugman, The New York Times Unemployment benefits: an unheralded success story. |
Jessica Carney, MSNBC Event planners know you can't just rely on people to obey rules when they're in crowds. So why are government officials doing so right now. |
Karol Markowicz, New York Post We need to start moving toward reopening, and that will mean rearranging some of the ideas that have ingrained themselves in our minds. |
Steve Goldstein, MarketWatch An economic-depression scenario could cost the world economy $82 trillion in lost output. |
Bernard Goldberg, The Hill It's common sense not to turn decent Americans into criminals if they don't adhere to zero-tolerance rules that seem capricious. |
Paul Sullivan, New York Times Advisers say taxpayers facing residency questions because of quarantine orders need to keep detailed records to explain where they lived, for how long and why. |
Edward Stringham, AIER Theoretical physicist Neil Ferguson is a vice dean at Imperial College of London and one of the main architects of our current lockdown. Ferguson rose to fame in 2005 when he predicted that up to 200 million people could be killed from the bird flu and acted as the advisor to the British government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), saying that without lockdown hundreds of thousands of Britons and 2 million Americans would die from COVID-19. |
Lucas Asher, Worth Venture capitalists who place big bets on new technology and software will play a role in deciding what the world after COVID-19 will look like. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar Will stock and bond performance converge? |
Peter Cecchini, Epsilon Theory We believe market participants will eventually catch on to the fact that THERE ARE NO FREE LUNCHES OVER THE LONG-TERM. |
Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund There are three distinct sides to risk. |
Ronald Bailey, Reason.com Stocks rise steeply on good news about mRNA vaccines. |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense Don't expect much from your bonds. |
Mikhail Samonov, Two Centuries Investments Separate factor risk from return; Use the longest history to set expectations; Allocate significant organization resources to innovation. |
Macromon, Global Macro Monitor Empathy - the psychological identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another. |
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