08/06/2021
Today John Berlau, L and L George Washington was one of the best examples of how our nation was rooted in entrepreneurship. |
Janet Manley, The New Republic The economist Emily Oster's "Expecting Better" made parenting less daunting. Her new book, "The Family Firm," does the opposite. |
Andy Puzder, Fox Business President Biden and Democrats have come up with a tax scheme that comes back to haunt the living who attempt to carry on family businesses following the owner's death. |
Sadek Wahba, The Hill Congress should seize the opportunity to create an institution independent of government, separate from the appropriations cycle, and capable of bringing large-scale, permanent, long-term funding to bear. |
Emily Glaser, Vox Not as bad as some might have expected. |
Bruce Thompson, The Examiner President Joe Biden has proposed raising the corporate tax rate by one-third to 28%. Biden said he wants to raise the corporate tax rate because a study claimed that many large corporations paid no federal income tax last year. |
John Merline, Issues & Insights Larry Elder is one man who could make the Golden State great again. |
Jeffrey Snider, RealClearMarkets It was another one of those historical developments that meant far more than it otherwise had seemed. Not necessarily hidden agendas, more along the lines of the changing times; a visual or, in this case, legal changeover more profound than the seemingly blasé technical matters leading to this. The Bank of England in 1998 undertook a major shift, maybe its most consequential to date for a central bank whose origins stretch all the way back to 1694. Central bankers like to speak on their own terms, employing a jargon-dense vocabulary at first meant to maintain the illusion of superiority if... |
Market Minder, Fisher A midweek financial news potpourri. |
Matt Egan, CNN The planned grand reopening of offices across America is in serious doubt because of the Delta variant. |
Jeffrey Tucker, Brownstone Institute If they tried to generate panic based on next to nothing in 2005-06, people should have asked at the time, what will they do when something real comes along? It took 15 years but now we know. |
Rep. Warren Davidson, RCM A few days ago, the President's Working Group on Financial Markets held a meeting where Secretary Janet Yellen likened Tether to money market funds. I am typically skeptical when I hear regulators opining on the subject of cryptocurrency for fear that they may promote overburdening regulations. In this case, I think it's time for regulators to go a step further and finally acknowledge that Tether is, in fact, a security. Tether, the cryptocurrency with the third-largest market value, was first issued in 2014 and originally claimed to be pegged to the U.S. Dollar at a 1:1 basis. Tether held... |
Jeffrey Kleintop, Charles Schwab China's recent stock market pullback has been in line with the average annual drawdown; historically, this volatility has tended to produce double-digit annualized gains. |
Thomas Kirchner, Camelot Portfolios |
Allison Schrager, Economics21 Where does the salary power reside? |
Lawrence Gillum, LPL Financial Most investors are aware that seasonal patterns exist in equities, but they may not be as familiar with the seasonal patterns in fixed income markets. As pointed out in the LPL Research Market Blog on Monday, August 2, stocks have historically been relatively weak in August and September. This temporary increase in equity volatility is tough for equity investors, but can core fixed income investors glean anything from a traditionally volatile period for equity markets? Because of the seasonal patterns in the equity markets, changing investor risk sentiment in August could make core bonds more... |
David Kastner, Charles Schwab We recently downgraded our rating on the Energy sector. Here's why. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Jeff Erber, Grey Owl Capital Management |
Leah McGrath Goodman, II After reaping more than $50 million from a sprawling fraud uncovered by Eugene Ross, the SEC has handed down a final order denying him any award. |
Jakir Hossain, Morningstar A regulatory crackdown has left some big names at cheap prices. |
Robert Krol, Reason Washington isn't helping, so let states take the lead. |
David Segal, New York Times Some hype coins mint instant millionaires. Others go bust. Why not take a chance? |
Danny Funt, CJR How gambling swallowed sports media |
Rebecca Heilweil, Vox The semiconductor supply crunch came for cars and phones. Now consumers are facing higher prices. |
Jim Tankersley & Jeanna Smialek, NYT Expiring unemployment benefits and the Delta variant add uncertainty to a recovery that has brought strong growth but an unusual labor market. |
Mike DiBiase, American Consequences Your credit score worries pale to the concern over corporate credit – and when companies default, the victims will be unsuspecting investors. |
Harry Holzer, Hill With the apparent creation of hundreds of thousands of new and well-paying jobs in the U.S., and with millions of workers already needing such training, our legislators need to make workforce training the top priority that it deserves to be. |
Brad Polumbo, The Examiner It takes a brave politician to take away welfare benefits from voters. But that's exactly what 26 governors, almost exclusively Republicans, have done. In their states, these governors prematurely ended the federal government's "temporary" pandemic supplement to unemployment benefits that was… |
Emily Stewart, Vox How worried you are about inflation largely depends on how you vote, a new poll shows. |
Jonathan Plante, AIER "Liberty is not measurable in dollars; it is priceless. As such, we should argue against any infringement on liberty—in this case public debt—for that reason." ~ Jonathan W. Plante |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Erica Sandberg, City Journal In Gavin Newsom's California, crime is too easy. |
David Merkel, The Aleph Blog It is rare when it makes sense to buy a variable annuity. |
Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund "It is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own." |
Christine Benz, Morningstar Many people put off creating a long-term-care plan. This step-by-step guide can help you get over inertia, dread, or both. |
Jeff Hirsch, Almanac Trader August Jobs Day Bearish Last 20 Years |
Scott Sumner, The Money Illusion This is the new normal. |
Kenneth Rogoff, PS The view that central-bank interest-rate policy can and should be the main driving force behind greater income equality is stupefyingly naive, no matter how often it is stated. Central banks can do more to address the inequality problem, but they cannot do everything. |
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