08/23/2021
Today Natalie Foster, The Hill The CTC found political will in a moment of a global crisis. Let's make sure we learn some important lessons from COVID-19 and be better prepared for what comes next. |
Charles Gasparino, New York Post As the debacle in Afghanistan consumes the Biden administration, Wall Street is keeping a closer eye on another debacle. |
Ben Casselman, NYT Prematurely ending federal programs had little effect on employment but sharply cut spending, potentially hurting state economies, researchers say. |
Kim Iskyan, AC A fixture of pandemic America is the "Help Wanted" sign. Why are jobs available months after openings were as scarce as atheists at church? |
Julia Horowitz, CNN The Federal Reserve is buying $120 billion in bonds per month, part of a package of emergency measures to prop up the US economy during the pandemic. But as activity returns to normal, is that level of support necessary? |
John Tamny, Forbes If money were in a constant state of evisceration due to savings, no one would use it in the first place. And there would certainly be no savings. |
Rob Smith, RCM It was a night time firefight. In the jungle. Vietnam. The morning sunlight exposed the carnage from the night's horror. The dead and blown up body parts lay scattered around the encampment. Ken walked over to a dead "gook" and rummaged through his pockets looking for souvenirs. It might sound ghoulish, but as Ken said "that's just what we did." His 9-year-old kid brother was often the recipient of Ken's souvenirs. Ken had been in college, but dropped out to join the Marines so he could serve his country in Vietnam. His father Marston and his three brothers had all suited up and were shipped... |
Kim Herman, RCM One night while we were sleeping, America lost its Constitution. That's not such an unrealistic scenario, and it can happen without gunfire or marches in the streets. In fact, with very little drama, it may be occurring at this moment. By itself, the U.S. Constitution is merely a collection of words. Only citizens who cherish liberty give the document real meaning, and if they remain silent when it's under threat - as it surely is at this hour - our rights and freedoms become imperiled. |
Market Minder, Fisher Inv Sentiment surveys don't tell you much about stocks' future direction. |
Noah Millman, Week How to end a pandemic when the virus never goes away |
Christy Bieber, The Motley Fool Financial guru Dave Ramsey's got some great advice about paying back debt. But his advice about retirement planning leaves a lot to be desired. |
Geoffrey Pohanka, RealClearEnergy The headlines are clear: renewable energy is on the rise as a source of electricity for America and coal power is headed for the door. President Biden has set a goal 30,000MW of offshore wind by 2030 |
Liz Ann Sonders & Jeffrey Kleintop & Kathy Jones, Charles Schwab The U.S. economy appears to be shifting from recovery mode to a new, more-mature expansion phase. |
Various & Various Articles, Outdoorsy Among NPS's historically significant sites, national historical parks and national memorials were most visited in 2020. Here are the top 15! |
Anu Gaggar, Commonwealth Financial A study suggests that, due to the pandemic, children may grow up financially worse off than their parents. Commonwealth's Anu Gaggar reviews the data. |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Schwab We can't control inflation or know what it will be in the future, but we can be smart about how we prepare. |
Paul Kupiec, American Enterprise Institute |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
James Picerno, The Capital Spectator Yesterday's July report on US consumer inflation suggested that the recent surge in pricing pressure may be peaking. That's also the message in revised data for CapitalSpectator.com's Inflation Trend Index (ITI). |
Josh Bivens, New York Times These charts break down the data behind the headline numbers. |
Daniel Sotiroff, Morningstar Use caution when chasing yield. |
Allison Schrager, City Journal Why China will never have the world's preeminent economy. |
Chris Isidore, CNN Business At Kevin Smith's home health care agency in Massachusetts, only 52% of his 400 staff members have been vaccinated. He'd like to order them all to get the shot, but he says he can't risk a mass exodus. |
Larry Elliott, The Guardian The decision has led to volatile financial markets, geopolitical tension and inflated asset prices |
Emily Birnbaum, Politico Poorly resourced state governments are no match for the lobbying firepower of Apple, the most valuable company in the world. |
Jasmin Sethi, MStar Old-fashioned tontines are a modern option to cut fees and manage retirement money. |
Jamie Catherwood, Investor Amnesia The politics of debt. |
Andrew Paul, The A.V. Club Surprise—the too-good-to-be-true store is exactly that |
Susan Dziubinski, Morningstar These Morningstar Medalists have a significant portion of their assets tucked in wide-moat stocks. |
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, Motherboard He spent years inside the iPhone leaks and jailbreak community. He was also spying for Apple. |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense So who wins — corporations or labor? That is the billion-dollar question. |
Asset Allocation Team, GMO Stock issuance in 2021 is setting a new record, blowing away the last high set in the run-up to the Tech Bubble. This is a dubious item to celebrate, if history is any guide. |
Ronald Bailey, Reason Researchers have developed a promising and "infinitely recyclable" plastic called polydiketoenamine. |
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