02/15/2021
Today Charles Gasparino, New York Post Companies used to be in business to make money, sell stuff and employ people. They were run by executives who were proudly capitalist and believed in the country's founding principles. |
Heather McGhee, New York Times The evidence shows we all lose when society's overwhelmed by white resentment and win when we organize across our differences. |
John Tamny, Forbes If you?re doing something special, global sources of finance will find you. |
Alex Hendrie, RealClearMarkets President Joe Biden has proposed $4 trillion in tax increases on American families and businesses. While Biden touts his tax hike plan as a way to ensure corporations "pay their fair share," the proposal will harm the U.S. economy at a time that it is recovering from the Coronavirus pandemic. These tax hikes will make American a more uncompetitive place to do business, send jobs overseas, trigger a return of corporate inversions, and make it easier for foreign businesses to acquire U.S. companies. |
Keisha Williams, Hill Changes must be made to close the gender-wage gap â?" it has been stagnant for far too long. |
Howard Husock, NR An administration interested in correcting housing-policy sins of the past would not overlook existing problems of subsidized housing. |
Brett Arends, MW Putting off retirement and delaying Social Security is a luxury many can't afford |
Isabelle Morales, Washington Examiner As one of her first acts after joining the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Elizabeth Warren plans to introduce a $2.75 trillion wealth tax. This legislation would impose a tax on those who have assets above $50 million with a top rate of 6% per year. |
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Tesla is making a $1.5-billion investment in the cryptocurrency bitcoin. That's more than Tesla has spent on R&D in any of the last three years. |
Paul La Monica, CNN People are obsessed lately with trying to find a way to get rich quick through short-term trades. Just look at bitcoin, GameStop or cannabis stocks. |
Art Carden, American Institute for Economic Research You have heard it said that the environment is in trouble. We are running out of resources. Things are bad, and they will only get worse-unless, of course, we hand practically unlimited power to direct our affairs to those who very clearly know better than we do what is best for us. The world, you hear day in and day out, is coming to an end. The inevitability of resource scarcity and hence the long-run tendency toward desperate poverty for everyone was the plot in one of the most successful film franchises of all time. In Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, our heroes do battle... |
Scott Bass, USA Today Stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus, opening schools and reigniting the economy is job one for President Joe Biden and his administration. However, long after the virus is contained, and students are back in school, the residues of this pandemic will remain etched as stains upon America's youth. What we do today will determine the fate of a generation whose spirit, hope, and energy are in danger of being forever lost. |
Various, Research Affiliates By buying or overweighting characteristics-based factor exposure and selling or underweighting beta-based factor exposure, investors can position their portfolios to reap the rewards of factor investing while bearing less risk. |
David Kastner, Charles Schwab The financial sector has struggled as of late, but we think this is a potential opportunity for investors. |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, CS Take a lump sum or lifetime income from my pension? The best choice for you depends on your individual circumstances. |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Financial Network |
Brian Wesbury, First Trust Advisors |
Hayden Adams, Charles Schwab Understand tax rules to keep more of your gains. |
Cooper Howard, Charles Schwab Many municipalities are under stress, but that's not necessarily a reason to avoid municipal bonds. |
Jeffrey Tucker, AIER Maybe widespread ownership and use of Bitcoin and other cryptos can make a cultural and economic contribution to converting us from profligate to thrifty in the way our great-great grandparents could celebrate. |
Willem H. Buiter, Project Syndicate Notwithstanding the recent spectacular surge in its price, Bitcoin will remain an asset without intrinsic value whose market value can be anything or nothing. Only those with healthy risk appetites and a robust capacity to absorb losses should consider investing in it. |
Ezra Klein, The New York Times If progressivism can't work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else? |
Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic Understanding America in the giant company's shadow |
Scott Beyer & Ethan Finlan, City Journal President Biden's "Buy American" commitments will conflict with his goal of improving mass transit. |
Julia Horowitz, CNN Ken Goldin has sold sports trading cards for four decades. What happened earlier this month still shocked him. |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar The good, the bad, and the ugly. |
Eric Boehm, Reason In comments to The New York Times Magazine published this week, the new treasury secretary says free trade has been "so negative" for "a large share of the population." That's just wrong. |
Chris Isidore, CNN Business For a CEO with no base salary, Elon Musk's 2020 payday reached sky-high record levels. |
Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture |
Greg Mankiw, Greg Mankiw Governments are spending a lot. |
Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund A truth that applies to many fields, which can frustrate some as much as it energizes others, is that the person who tells the most compelling story wins. Not who has the best idea, or the right answer. Just whoever tells a story that catches people's attention and gets them to nod their heads. |
Casey Taylor, Vox How shopping for everything from in-demand sneakers to Funko Pop! figures got so competitive. |
Jon, Novel Investor The key to the pendulum analogy is to be aware of the risks and behavior that come with stock market extremes and that those excesses revert. |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense Japan was the bubble that defines all bubbles. |
Climateer, Climateer Investing A very clear-eyed analysis by Deutsche Bank's automotive, climate policy, energy, transportation and German manufacturing analyst, Eric Heymann. |
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