04/23/2021
Today Ella Nilsen, Vox The politics and urgency around climate change are shifting. |
Kent Lassman, The Examiner In 1970, Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin predicted that "accelerating rates of air pollution could become so serious by the 1980s that many people may be forced on the worst days to wear breathing helmets to survive outdoors." Buoyed by a United Nations proclamation, Nelson inaugurated Earth Day… |
Alex Hendrie, The Hill It is unclear how policies like raising the corporate rate, enacting a SALT tax cut for wealthy blue state residents, or enacting a global pact on high taxes helps American families and workers. |
Jordan Weissmann, Slate Get ready for private equity guys to start making jokes about Uncle Joe Stalin. |
Henry Kressel & David Goldman, Newsweek The talent to create innovations ultimately follows the production facility. |
Andrew Quinlan, RCM In February, all of the Federal Reserve's payments systems failed for half a day. The systems include FedWire, which the Fed itself advertises as the "premier electronic funds-transfer service that banks rely on for mission-critical, same-day transactions," as well as the ACH network offered for payroll and other large transactions. This isn't the only recent failure; in April 2019, FedWire also went down for hours. The most obvious, but perhaps not most serious, concern is that the core infrastructure of the U.S. financial system keeps failing. Fedwire processes over $3 trillion in... |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments Global politics are overall quiet compared to last year, but that doesn't mean nothing is happening. |
Jeffrey Snider, RCM Could low repo haircuts on US Treasury collateral actually be a source of potential danger? That it might be is itself a profound statement in the ongoing saga of shadow money and its key component of money dealer capacities. Bills and Treasury futures, hedge funds and money market funds, basis trades, repo, and, most of all, balance sheet constraints. A saga truly for the ongoing imperfections of a global money system never quite able to get over itself. In the worst parts to the first global financial crisis, repo and haircuts found their way into the mainstream if only briefly. To briefly... |
Jazmin Goodwin, CNN The pandemic has put a dent in many people's financial lives, affecting their ability to save and stash away cash for retirement. Add the fact that more Americans are living longer, and the prospect of financial security in retirement for many is falling short. |
Johnny Kampis, RCM The push for symmetrical broadband speeds in proposed federal legislation, the Leading Infrastructure for Tomorrow's (LIFT) America Act, (LINK) will only hurt the quest for closing the digital d |
Phillip Magness, AIER "Just over one year ago, the epidemiology modeling of Neil Ferguson and Imperial College played a preeminent role in shutting down most of the world. The exaggerated forecasts of this modeling team are now impossible to downplay or deny, and extend to almost every country on earth. Indeed, they... |
Liz Ann Sonders & Kevin Gordon, Schwab Special purpose acquisition companies—also known as blank-check companies—have gained immense popularity since the beginning of 2020. |
Anu Gaggar, Commonwealth Who will be the winners (and losers) of the American Jobs Plan? Commonwealth's Anu Gaggar makes her picks. |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Schwab The American Rescue Plan Act includes much more than stimulus payments, especially if your children are minors. |
Market Minder, Fisher What the latest Chinese economic data reveal about what lies ahead. |
Bret Swanson, American Enterprise Institute Even perhaps the internet industry it invented. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Jemima Kelly, FT Alphaville Imagine bitcoin has no environmental problem — it's easy if you try. |
Nathan Robinson, Current Affairs Getting past the cult of Genius and the bleakness of capitalist futurism. |
Raymond Zhong & Alexandra Stevenson, NYT High-profile business leaders have been detained, sidelined or silenced as the Communist Party moves forcefully to keep companies in line. Today, the best strategy is to lie low. |
David Böcking, Der Spiegel U.S. President Joe Biden is calling for a minimum corporate tax rate of 21 percent for companies. But countries like Ireland and Luxembourg have established a lucrative revenue stream through big breaks for multinationals. A number of EU countries could soon feel the pinch. |
Jeffrey Frankel, PS Today, freely floating exchange rates suit most large countries better than the late economists Richard Cooper, Robert Mundell, and John Williamson thought. But some countries do well with firmly fixed exchange rates, while at least half of the world's countries fall in between. |
Brett Arends, MW Timing is everything |
Dan Lefkovitz, Morningstar Where the market's largest stock lands can affect your returns. |
Bob Fernandez, ProPublica A director and alumnus of America's wealthiest boarding school claims he had to sue the institution to see how it spends the funding it receives from sales of Hershey bars and Reese's Pieces. |
Allison Schrager, City Journal The enduring wisdom of shareholder primacy |
Amy Arnott, Morningstar A long-term slump for international stocks means lower price tags. |
Larry Swedroe, Alpha Architect Value stocks outperform when inflation is high. |
Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN A few weeks ago, Philippe Massoud posted online ads looking for a cook to hire at ilili, his New York City restaurant. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Daniel Jelski, Trotsky's Children Have we reached peak bitcoin? Yes--I think we have, at least for this year. I feel very strange saying that, seeing as I've been an enthusia... |
Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution Some states would see capital gains rates over 50% under Biden's plan. |
Zachary Crockett, The Hustle In the 1990s, a group of elderly women from Beardstown, Illinois gained national fame for their stock returns. But there was a catch. |
Ben Carlson, AWOCS There are a number of factors that drive the markets that most investors pay attention to. Things like earnings, economic growth, interest rates, inflation, market trends and valuations.All these |
Bryce Coward, Knowledge Leaders Capital 10 year Treasury rates peaked at the end of March at 1.74% after having risen from low of just 0.56% back in the summer of 2020. Now, the rate stands at 1.57% even as economic data continues to come in smoking hot and policy remains easy. |
Theodore Schleifer, Vox Texas schools. A food bank. Now a climate-change prize. The Tesla founder discovers Big Philanthropy. |
Rebecca Heilweil, Vox Apple's new AirTag looks and works a lot like the trackers produced by Tile. |
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