07/31/2021
Today Vivekanand Jayakumar, The Hill In this environment, bond yields that are so low as to guarantee a negative real return if the securities are held until maturity may appear puzzling or downright odd. |
Steve Goldstein, MarketWatch How is this for a historical comparison -- interest rates are at a 5,000-year low. |
Michael Braga & Jessica Menton, USA TODAY Unlike its namesake, the Robinhood stock trading app and retail brokerage is all about nudging unsophisticated investors into risky investments. |
Bob Pisani, CNBC Not only are earnings blowing out estimates by a wide margin, but companies are raising guidance for the remainder of 2021. |
Editorial, New York Sun The New York Sun launches, with Judy Shelton's op-ed this evening, a series on the 50th anniversary of the collapse of the monetary system that had been established at Bretton Woods at the end of World War II. That system, centered on America's |
Rebecca Heilweil, Vox The US government has hired a cryptocurrency company to store all the bitcoin it's seizing. |
Bill Rice, UncoverDC The most comprehensive and perhaps important COVID study to date was recently released in the UK quantifying the health risks of COVID among children and teenagers. |
Benny Buller, CNN With Covid cases surging again, it's imperative that executives show courageous leadership by mandating vaccines at their organizations. |
Michael Fumento, AIER "Thus the country the media loved to hate is reaping the best of all worlds: Few current cases and deaths, stronger economic growth than the lockdown countries, and its people never experienced the yoke of tyranny." ~ Michael Fumento |
Justin Hawkins, Washington Examiner On Thursday, the U.S. Commerce Department released important data showing the U.S. economy severely underperformed in the second quarter of 2021. |
Noah Millman, The Week The deal tells us where the parties can agree — and where they can't |
Kim Iskyan, American Consequences What if the world – the global economy, businesses, stock markets – just stopped growing? And what if we told you that was for the best? |
Rob Williams, Charles Schwab A guide to approaching distribution. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Schwab Despite the proliferation of Buy Now, Pay Later options, the time-tested rules of sound money management still hold. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Mike Brown, Breeze New research from Breeze found many employees would sacrifice some of the best benefits, or even take pay cuts, to remain remote. |
Ryan Detrick & Jeffrey Buchbinder, Realclear |
Russell Redenbaugh & James Juliano, Kairos Capital Management |
Irina Slav, OilPrice.com America's oil and gas industry employs over 11 million people and is worth more than $1.6 trillion, making the energy transition more difficult than it may seem |
Harold James, Project Syndicate US President Richard Nixon's 1971 decision to end the US dollar's convertibility into gold had such far-reaching consequences that it took policymakers decades to learn to manage the new system. Now, digital technologies are driving a new monetary revolution that could end the greenback's global primacy altogether. |
Steve Kovach, NBC Tech companies — primarily Facebook — are increasingly boosting the concept of the "metaverse," the classic sci-fi term for a virtual world you can live, work and play inside. |
Karen Wallace, Morningstar These practical tips can help you become a more mindful shopper. |
David Gelles, New York Times "Companies that get down with me know how I get down." |
Jerusalem Demsas, Vox It's the biggest thing you might ever buy. And it could be turning you into a bad person. |
Bryce Coward, KLC The United States is just at the beginning of a housing boom that could last for the next five years. |
Neil Irwin, New York Times The new G.D.P. numbers paint a vivid picture of a nation still struggling to complete an economic readjustment. |
German Lopez, Vox The bill would genuinely impact many people's lives. |
Cezary Podkul, ProPublica Bots filing bogus applications in bulk, teams of fraudsters in foreign countries making phony claims, online forums peddling how-to advice on identity theft: Inside the infrastructure of perhaps the largest fraud wave in history. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Ken Stern, Vanity Fair Francis Suarez is a smooth-talking, highly popular legacy politician with a knack for drawing in Latino voters. Republicans who follow his example could build a winning coalition—if they dump Trump. |
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon My partner Tom and I invested $100,000 out of our first $6 million Social Leverage fund in the seed round of Robinhood back in 2013. |
Michael Batnick, The Irrelevant Investor The biggest stocks are on fire |
Charlie Bilello, Compound Advisors As children we're taught that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Many expect investing to be the same, with high and consistent returns bringing you from point A (starting out) to point B (wealth). But markets don't operate in the same realm as the physical world. |
Sam Dumitriu, CapX Many of the things we think we know about waste and emissions are myths |
Geoffrey James, Inc. Billionaires should be paying their fair share of US taxes |
Nick Maggiulli, Of Dollars And Data On the lowest effort way to prepare for a decent retirement. |
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