09/24/2020
Today Seth Stevenson, Slate The once-favored ride of stunt performers, tattooed boomers, and cinephiles is now on a road to nowhere. |
Ben Carlson, MarketWatch There were 13.2 million new pickups sold from 2013 to 2019 in the U.S., with monthly payments of as much as $1,300 for each. That money could be better spent on 401(k) or IRA payments |
Kim Iskyan, American Consequences America’s national debt has soared more than $4 trillion this year alone… It now totals $26.7 trillion. That’s $81,000 for every man, woman, and child. It’s around the value of every residential dwelling in the country. It’s about 130 of Jeff Bezos’ fortunes. It’s an astronomically large figure… And it could be paid off tomorrow if the U.S. government raided one of the biggest pools of capital on earth… one that partly belongs to you. |
Market Minder, Fisher Low interest rates may reduce the appeal of savings accounts, but a right-sized emergency fund is still important. |
Richard Kirsch, The Hill Policies to give a big chunk of that back are on the ballot this November. |
John Tamny, RCM Café Phillip is a sandwich shop on the SE side of K Street in Washington, D.C. Call this the historically unfashionable K Street versus K Street NW where the major lobbying shops have historically located. Until March of 2020, Café Phillip was booming. Staffed with energetic and highly professional immigrant employees, it did huge business in a part of D.C. that was increasingly filling up with office workers and residents. Then came the political panic related to the coronavirus. Even though there were no indications from the virus’s origin, or Asia more... |
John Tierney, City Journal Achieving herd immunity in this pandemic should be society's goal right now. |
Jeva Lange, The Week Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons. |
Art Carden, American Institute for Economic Research At first glance, a lot of the social problems and resource waste emerging from government intervention seem pretty easy to fix: the government should just stop doing whatever it is doing that is creating the problems and the waste. The stubborn persistence of institutions and organizations that keep societies poor is a vexing problem for social scientists. In Political Capitalism, the economist Randall Holcombe takes on this problem by analyzing “political capitalism” as a distinct economic system with its own logic and features rather than as some kind of midpoint between... |
Oliver Darcy, CNN It's been clear for years that tech platforms needed to get their houses in order ahead of the 2020 election. |
Michael Corkery, The New York Times Away from the political drama of the TikTok deal, Walmart has been taking steps that are already changing the company and, by extension, the broader retail sector. |
Michael Stumo, Duluth News This month marks 20 years since the U.S. Senate voted to approve "normalized" trade with China. It was a mistake that now threatens to help position China as the world's superpower. |
Richard Salsman, InterMarket Forecasting Inc. |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Financial Network |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments Contrary to what headlines portray, we don't think these data reflect a teetering economic recovery. |
Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch Contrarian-minded investors are bullish about short-term market-timers' growing bearishness |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar Placing the company's valuation into historical context. |
Matt Egan & CNN Business, CNN President Donald Trump has warned of economic and financial Armageddon if Joe Biden and the Democrats retake the White House next year. But history paints a very different story. |
Jeffrey Tucker, AIER This year has been a shocker in more ways than one. |
Matthew C. Klein, Barrons.com Processing backlogs and the way jobless claims are counted have likely inflated the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits, writes Barron's economics commentator Matthew C. Klein. . |
Anne Krueger, Project Syndicate Since coming to office in early 2017, US President Donald Trump has assumed that America could secure better "deals" with trading partners around the world by negotiating with them bilaterally. But after three and a half years, the evidence is clear: US trade policy has achieved the opposite of Trump's stated goals. |
Alex Abad-Santos, Vox Dumbbells are impossibly expensive right now, thanks in large part to resellers taking advantage of a shortage. |
Timothy Lee, ArsTechnica The economics of cheaper batteriesâ?"and why they're good news for the planet. |
Brett Arends, MW The numbers were looking dismal â?Â" even before the coronavirus |
John Pallasch, The Hill COVID-19 has presented us with many challenges. To meet them, we must rethink how we put America back to work. For the Department of Labor, that means fostering a One Workforce strategy. |
Jim Desmond, Washington Examiner Every day, tens of thousands of people safely shop at big box retail and grocery stores where respectful San Diego shoppers obey the mask, social distancing, and sanitation protocols. Churches, museums, restaurants, and the zoo are now open, but to a limited 25% capacity. Legoland, street fairs, and wedding venues have yet to open, whereas liquor stores and marijuana dispensaries operate unabated. |
Laura He, CNN President Xi Jinping has sent a message to China's private businesses: You can make money, but only if you follow my rules. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Drew Dickson, Drew's Views Was value just a "hot hand" thing? |
Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund Just a few short rules about the way the world works. |
Rob Soave, Reason In communities where young kids returned to classes, it's mostly good news. |
Jason Del Rey, Vox The brick-and-mortar retailer is trying to invent a digital future where it's a leader of Amazon rather than a follower. |
James Gard, Morningstar The tech-focused index has hit record highs this year before a rough patch in September. How are its biggest companies valued after recent volatility? |
Eddy Elfenbein, Crossing Wall Str/eet Dividends matter. A lot. |
Danny Crichton, TechCrunch It used to be easy to tell the American and Chinese economies apart. No longer. |
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