03/21/2020
Today Kevin Williamson, National Review People are so vulnerable to conspiracy theories and misinformation in part because they believe they're being lied to by their leaders. They aren't wrong. |
Joshua Gotbaum, Brookings Joshua Gotbaum lays out a plan to quickly provide federal assistance to businesses affected by the coronavirus without paying off business executives and stockholders. |
Robert Robb, Arizona Republic Focusing on the most vulnerable might have produced most of the public health benefits without so much disruption and economic damage. |
Rohan Grey, The Nation Even deficit hawks like Joe Biden know that when faced with the genuine prospect of annihilation, the only adequate response is to do whatever it takes to prevent it. |
John Tamny, RCM "The Pothole" is the title of episode 16, season 8 of the classic television series Seinfeld. In this one Jerry accidentally knocks girlfriend Jenna's toothbrush into the toilet,... |
James Pethokoukis, AEI The coronavirus pandemic has become a public health crisis for the United States and the world, but it also poses a serious economic challenge. So how will the coronavirus downturn be different from normal recessions? And what can we do to mitigate the harm through public policy? On a special episode of Political Economy this week, I discussed these questions with economist Stan Veuger. |
Heather Boushey, Medium COVID-19 represents both a public health emergency and an economic crisis. While federal, state, and local governments must take strong steps to stem the spread of the virus â?Â" from continuing to? |
Jonathan Chait, Intelligencer The Senate Republican plan to save the economy from the coronavirus pandemic includes a provision to phase in the checks to everybody, so that low-income households get $600 and the middle class gets $1,200. Why not give the same money to everybody? |
Boehner & Crowley, CNBC If the objective of Washington's "stimulus" effort is to bolster our economy in the face of COVID-19 and reduce crippling anxiety in our communities about what the future holds, then addressing the pension crisis ought to be part of the response, write John Boehner and Joe Crowley. |
Elizabeth Foos, Morningstar This market hasn't been immune to trouble stemming from the coronavirus-related volatility. |
Dylan Walsh, MIT Sloan Without care, productivity and sound decision-making will suffer. |
Allison Gatlin, IBD The U.S. faces an uphill battle against the coronavirus and the reason is simple: There aren't nearly enough coronavirus tests to identify who has Covid-19 and where resources are most needed. |
Peter Hooper, Deutsche Bank |
Kathy Jones, Charles Schwab The Federal Reserve is reluctant to cut its policy rate below zero, but markets could drive Treasury yields negative anyway. |
Daniel Kern & Renee Kwok, TFC Financial Management |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Schwab Trying to improve your credit score? This week's Ask Carrie, talks about the impact of recent FICO changes and how to maintain good credit. |
Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution Plans for economic mitigation from the coronavirus -- by Tyler Cowen We need a series of policies to achieve some rather complex ends, and in conjunction. Other than the obvious goals (?minimize human suffering?), these ends are: Scale down economic activity in a rapid way to keep people at ho... |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar When will stocks recover? |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense You are unlikely to catch the low but in past crashes buying too soon wasn't as painful than you might think. |
Jon C. Ogg, 24/7 Wall St. Earnings are impossible to predict even for the most predictable of companies. |
Vitaliy Katsenelson, Contrarian Edge Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game. |
Stephen S. Roach, Project Syndicate During the 2008 crisis, unprecedented actions by the US Federal Reserve were both appropriate and decisive in addressing the primary source of the shock: a devastating blow to the financial system. In the COVID-19 crisis, the Fed cannot play the same role, because it is addressing the financial repercussions of a shock to the real economy. |
Adam Collins, Movement Capital TIPS are cheap. |
Arnold Kling, askblog I believe that we have to resist the temptation to benchmark the economic outlook against "normal," where normal means what would have happened had the virus never appeared. Normal is not an option... |
Caroline Baum, MarketWatch Businesses and workers need cash to pay their bills until the economy can revive |
Philip Turner, Project Syndicate As the full implications of the COVID-19 pandemic have slowly become clear, private liquidity has begun to drain out of global markets. As a result, the record-high level of dollar-denominated debt held by non-banking entities outside of the United States has become a problem that central banks simply cannot ignore. |
William Watts, MarketWatch The dollar is surging against everything. |
Veronique de Rugy, National Review We couldn't trust the government before, and we can't trust them now, so let's exert more accountability than we have in the past. The stakes are too high. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Anne Krueger, Project Syndicate Between a coronavirus pandemic and collapsing stock markets, the global economy may be in a worse situation than it was during the 2008 financial crisis, because America has all but slammed the door shut on international cooperation. And yet, without a multilateral response, the US will suffer as much as anyone. |
Dan McLaughlin, National Review This viral outbreak should make us reconsider the social trend toward megacities. |
Aron Szapiro, Morningstar Yes, really. A fiscal stimulus could significantly help Americans manage the current economic crisis. |
Rbf, Medium Since I published several days ago, COVD19 grips the world even more. Cases spiral upward, and fatalities accrue and gain momentum. Besides closure of all athletic events, schools, and theaters, the? |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense There are psychological reasons investors are so quick to panic buy and sell during volatile markets. |
Jason Goepfert, SentimenTrader Bond volatility has been off the charts. |
Ben Hunt, Epsilon Theory The government should not be bailing out airlines. |
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