08/25/2020
Today William Baldwin, Forbes If the Democrats get both the White House and the Senate, you will have scarcely a month to make some important moves. |
Bruce Yandle, Washington Examiner On Friday, President Trump added another page to his ongoing "gatekeeper capitalism" story. Once again, China is the target, and once again, Trump is threatening to close the door to the flow of its imports, unless they shape up. He indicated that we don't have to do business with China. But there is a bit more to the story. |
Ken Fisher, RCM The dollar knows! So say the many pundits now calling the dollar’s recent slide a canary in the coalmine for America’s economy and stocks. That’s really stupid. But, they claim the S&P 500 surged to record highs with blinders on, ignoring the economy, soaring deficits, COVID containment struggles and more. But the dollar is properly weighing these risks, the story goes. And once stocks get wise, the party’s over. It’s an old story—and a tired one. History and simple logic show currency markets don’t predict stocks. To say currency markets... |
Matt Egan, CNN Americans are stressed like never before. They're juggling work-from-home while taking care of children. They're worried about the pandemic. And they fear for their jobs. |
Kailey Hagen, Motley Fool 401(k)s are one of the most popular types of retirement accounts, but despite their widespread usage, people still make a lot of mistakes with them. You may not realize you're making some of them and others may not seem like a big deal at the time, but this is your life savings you're talking about. It's not something you can afford to take chances with. You owe it to yourself to avoid the following five mistakes. |
Eric Levitz, New York Missouri Senator Josh Hawley argues that Joe Biden represents "the revenge of the elites,"after four years of President Trump upsetting the status quo on Wall Street?in favor of working people." He cites no evidence for this claim. |
John Tamny, RealClearMarkets The U.S. would be quite a bit more prosperous if policymakers understood a few basic things. Up top would be a grasping of the simple truth that money isn’t wealth; rather it’s a measure that serves no purpose other than as a medium to facilitate the exchange of actual wealth, and also store it. Progress springs from this. Major progress. When we can easily exchange the fruits of our labor, we can logically specialize. And when we’re specialized in our work, we’re much more productive. Our productivity means we don’t have to consume all the fruits of work such... |
Susan Cantrell, The Hill The deliberate slowdown of the USPS raises serious concerns about timely medication access, which could lead to negative health outcomes â?" especially for our most vulnerable. |
Sam Kennedy, OilPrice A new oil frontier is opening up in Africa, where exploration companies are reporting increasingly bigger finds in a time that global oil markets need them the most |
Editors, Issues & Insights Yet again there's story behind the latest tale telling us to be afraid of global warming. |
Allison Schrager, CJ Can we trust our fellow citizens to weigh the consequences of their actions? |
Jerry Bowyer, Vident Financial |
Steve Englander, Standard Chartered Bank |
Kathy Jones, Charles Schwab Real yields have dropped into negative territory as inflation expectations rise. |
Ryan Detrick, LPL Financial Research Market Blog "Better late than never." It took a while, but the S&P 500 Index finally made a new all-time high, coming all the way back from the vicious 34% bear market in less than six months.? |
Jerry Bowyer, Vident Financial |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Bernard Sharfman, The FinReg Blog |
Michael Del Castillo, Forbes When printing paper money is your core business, hyper-inflation is your best friend and digital transactions are your worst enemy. How Germany's Giesecke & Devrient has learned to thrive in a low inflation, electronic payments world. |
Ellen Aprill, The Hill We cannot look to philanthropy for deliverance here. In terms of authority, that is a letter only Congress may postmark. |
Jeffrey Tucker, American Institute for Economic Research It’s happened to quite a number of us. We write against the lockdowns for all the incredible economic, psychological, and institutional carnage they have caused, and how they have shattered our expectations of our rights and freedoms, and our presumptions about what government has the power to do to us. |
Garrett Watson & Erica York, Tax Foundation Biden's tax vision: higher taxes on high-income earners and businesses paired with more generous provisions for specific activities and households. |
Charles Sauer, Washington Examiner While the gig economy helps entrepreneurs around the country pursue their dreams, California is enforcing rules that will crush this innovative movement. The move takes away the people's freedom to decide how they would like to pay their bills, live their lives, and pursue their dreams. |
Kate Kelly & Neal Boudette, New York Times Special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, are helping them and other fledgling companies raise money and gain coveted stock listings. |
James Meigs, New York Post While wind and solar are making growing contributions to our energy mix, there are huge obstacles to them becoming our primary sources of electric power. |
Anne Krueger, Project Syndicate Although massive current spending in response to the COVID-19 pandemic seems justified, policymakers will have to address the mounting public debt once the crisis has passed. Policymakers will be strongly tempted to impose an interest-rate ceiling on financial institutions, but conditional tax increases would be preferable. |
Tim Duy, MSN The key provisions of the CARES Act have mostly expired, but they have given a big boost to consumer savings. |
Michael Tubbs & Melvin Carter, CNN For millions of Americans, the initial stimulus checks provided through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which allotted $1,200 per adult and $500 per child for households under a certain income threshold, lasted only a few weeks. |
Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic Trying to replace government with personal initiative requires an impossible amount of energy. |
Preston Caldwell & Eric Compton, Morningstar Risks are far lower than during the last U.S. financial crisis, despite COVID-19's impact. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Jesse Frederik, The Correspondent Blockchain technology is going to change everything: the shipping industry, the financial system, government … in fact, what won’t it change? But enthusiasm for it mainly stems from a lack of knowledge and understanding. The blockchain is a solution in search of a problem. |
Mark Zandi, CNN Business How far from normal is the US economy? And how much progress are we making toward whatever "normal" will mean in the future? These are tough questions, but CNN Business and Moody's Analytics have teamed up with a new Back-to-Normal Index to take a crack at answering them with regard to the economy. |
Kyle Smith, National Review The city will bounce back, but will it ever be the same? |
Jason Goepfert, SentimenTrader Mom & pop sell while newsletters tell them to buy |
Robert Skidelsky, Project Syndicate The argument that public investment invariably "crowds out" private capital is wrong both theoretically and empirically. States have always played a leading role in allocating capital, either through direct investments, or by deliberately encouraging certain types of private investment. |
Alex Abad-Santos, Vox We're talking exercise equipment not people. |
Shoshana Wodinsky, Gizmodo Despite being at the center of at least one massive antitrust probe while fielding regulatory pressure from right- and left-leaning pundits alike, Facebook's spent the last few months doing a whole lot of nothing to tweak the monopolistic business practices that landed it in hot water with regulators in the first place. Instead, its strategy is (and has been) to point fingers at any passing distraction. |
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