08/02/2021
Today Jeanna Smialek, New York Times Low interest rates are one reason that the housing market has taken off. They are far from the only one. |
John Tamny, Forbes If the Fed could actually increase credit, there would be very little credit to increase. |
Henry Grabar, Slate What the beleaguered operator should do with $66 billion from Congress. |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments GDP is backward looking, but we think this week's report hints at the trends that lie ahead. |
Michael Sincere, MarketWatch The clock is ticking for U.S. stocks. |
Charles Gasparino, NYP Robinhood's shaky IPO debut and intention to "democratize" Wall Street with its ever-growing user base isn't attracting institutional investors — for a good reason, Charles Gaspar… |
Russ Wiles, Arizona Republic Many investors are so focused on accumulating wealth that they neglect the second part of the equation. |
Andrew Wilford, RCM One of President Biden's most impactful, but least discussed, tax proposals is the repeal of the so-called "step-up in basis" upon inheritance of a decedent's estate. But as a group of Republican senators argued in a recent letterto the President, it's a change that stands to do a great deal of harm to businesses and agricultural operations should it be passed. |
Rainer Zitelmann, Washington Examiner Weiying Zhang, a professor of economics at Peking University, objects to the notion that China's extraordinary economic success is a result of the strong influence exerted by the state. |
Jerusalem Demsas, Vox The Tokyo Olympics could cost four times as much as expected. |
Anna Bahney, CNN Ronald Leonard expects the sheriff to arrive at the door of his Daytona Beach, Florida, home any day after the federal ban on evictions expires on Saturday. |
Jeffrey Tucker, Brownstone Institute Every age has generated some fashionable and overriding reason why people cannot be free. Public health is the reason of the moment. In this author's telling, everything we think we know about the social and political order must conform to his number one priority of pathogen avoidance and suppression, while every other concern (such as freedom itself) should take a back seat. |
Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab The Federal Reserve left its interest rate and balance sheet policy unchanged; but is opening the door a bit more to tapering its bond purchases. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Rob Williams, Charles Schwab A guide to approaching distribution. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Schwab Despite the proliferation of Buy Now, Pay Later options, the time-tested rules of sound money management still hold. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Irina Slav, OilPrice.com America's oil and gas industry employs over 11 million people and is worth more than $1.6 trillion, making the energy transition more difficult than it may seem |
Harold James, Project Syndicate US President Richard Nixon's 1971 decision to end the US dollar's convertibility into gold had such far-reaching consequences that it took policymakers decades to learn to manage the new system. Now, digital technologies are driving a new monetary revolution that could end the greenback's global primacy altogether. |
Steve Kovach, NBC Tech companies — primarily Facebook — are increasingly boosting the concept of the "metaverse," the classic sci-fi term for a virtual world you can live, work and play inside. |
Karen Wallace, Morningstar These practical tips can help you become a more mindful shopper. |
Jerusalem Demsas, Vox It's the biggest thing you might ever buy. And it could be turning you into a bad person. |
Bryce Coward, KLC The United States is just at the beginning of a housing boom that could last for the next five years. |
Louis-Vincent Gave, Evergreen Gavekal Increased regulatory pressures from the Chinese government have created wild swings in Chinese equities of-late. Technology and education stocks have been hit hardest, as investors have weighed a series of announcements from Beijing aimed at increasing oversight in a wide range of sectors. |
Gabrielle Dibenedetto, Morningstar Our market commentary covers economic expectations after the pandemic, the global spread of inflation pressure, and more. |
Steven Greenhut, Reason Market power does not make a private company the equivalent of a government agency. |
Jamie Catherwood, Investor Amnesia There's nothing new in the world. |
Nate Berg, Fast Company The packaging industry is growing—and so are the buildings needed to house it. |
Bill McBride, Calculated Risk Inflation has been below target for years. |
Ken Stern, Vanity Fair Francis Suarez is a smooth-talking, highly popular legacy politician with a knack for drawing in Latino voters. Republicans who follow his example could build a winning coalition—if they dump Trump. |
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