05/15/2020
Today Marty Makary, NYT Months ago, I called for a long lockdown. Now we must minimize collateral damage. |
Raymond Niles, American Institute for Economic Research |
Kevin Williamson, National Review 'Stop trying to help us,' the industry says. |
Eric Levitz, New York Magazine Nancy Pelosi removed automatic stabilizers from the Democrats' new $3 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill out of fear that the policy would have made the legislation look too expensive. That's foolishness. |
Brian Brenberg, Fox News Businesses need protection in order to reopen their doors, rehire employees and lead America into economic recovery. |
John Tamny, RCM The great Austrian thinker Ludwig von Mises always rejected the idea that economics was "the dismal science." What about the study of human action and progress could possibly be... |
Sean Higgins, The Hill Yes, businesses are applying for loans en masse. They're desperate to survive and a drowning person will likely clutch at anything thrown their way. That doesn't mean that the life preservers being tossed at them are the best. The 75 percent provision was excessive, #Neverneeded and should be rolled back. |
Jimmy Sengenberger, Jimmy at the Crossroads |
Allison Schrager, NW We must not let emergency coronavirus policies turn into socialism. |
Jeffrey Snider, RealClearMarkets |
Austin Fraser, Fisher Most Emerging Markets are in much better shape than headlines suggest. |
Jerry Bowyer, Vident Financial |
John Holt, Applied Finance Over the past 25 years, Applied Finance has studied market patterns and trends using millions of Valuations. The firm's live database goes back to 1998, with further data starting from the early 1990's. The two [...more] |
Rob Williams, Charles Schwab Important distinctions exist between traditional and Roth IRAs, including eligibility and contribution limits. Here's a guide to help you decide what's best for you. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Hayden Adams, Charles Schwab Was your tax refund smaller than in previous years? Did you owe more than usual? Here's why. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Liam Vaughan, BBW A new book reveals fresh details about the man authorities blamed for the Flash Crash that erased $1 trillion of value in a matter of minutes. |
Veronique de Rugy, Reason Marveling at people's endless ability to love, connect, and create. |
Brooke Jarvis, Wired The very first vaccine candidate entered human trials—and Neal Browning’s arm—on March 16. Behind the scenes at Moderna and the beginning of an unprecedented global sprint. |
Chris Isidore, CNN Business It hasn't received a lot of attention with all the Twitter wars and comments from CEO Elon Musk about Covid-19, but Tesla has become incredibly profitable. |
Nathaniel Popper, NYT Online shopping surged after virus-related shutdowns. But even within the areas of rapid growth, the recent gains have not been spread evenly, new data shows. |
Richard N. Haass, Project Syndicate If great power rivalries, and how well or poorly they were managed, shaped much of the history of the past few centuries, the current era is more likely to be defined by global challenges and how well or poorly the world addresses them. Above all, that requires avoiding false cures. |
Matthew Yglesias, Vox If Congress doesn't act, state budget crises and unemployment insurance cuts will hammer the economy. |
Brett Arends, MarketWatch They will rise again, but we just don't know when |
Elizabeth Warren & Ro Khanna, CNN We have to protect these workers who are protecting us, and we must act with urgency. That's why we have introduced a 10-point proposal that we're calling the Essential Workers Bill of Rights, and it should be included in the next relief package. |
Rep. Katie Porter, MSNBC PPP loan grift is still happening. Congress must open the books â?Â" or corporate greed wins again. |
Betsy McCaughey, New York Post |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Ben Hunt, Epsilon Theory A truth that’s told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent. William Blake (1757 – 1827) |
Ed Yardeni, Dr. Ed's Blog We are still in the midst of VWW-II, the second world war against the coronavirus. VWW-I occurred from 1918-19 as the world battled the Spa... |
Sheldon Richman, Free Association It’s time for the lockdown orders to be lifted, liberating society’s widespread entrepreneurial problem-solving process to do its thing. |
Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund Life is a little easier if you expect a certain percentage of it to go wrong no matter how hard you try. |
Preston Caldwell, Morningstar We've updated our near-term GDP forecast and look to previous recessions for longer-term guidance. |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense A reader sent me an old piece I wrote in early-2014 that contained a stat that made me do a double-take: The energy sector outperformed the S&P 500 by nearly 7% per year with nearly the same standard deviation. This seems almost impossible to believe at the moment but it really happened. |
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Project Syndicate To those already predisposed to favor domestic production over international trade, the COVID-19 pandemic seems like a case in point. Yet a closer look at the facts shows that, if anything, the current crisis offers powerful evidence of why we need global supply chains and widely distributed production. |
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