08/31/2021
Today P.J. O'Rourke, American Consequences Why stop at defunding the police? America needs to get its hands politically even dirtier by disposing of the The Department of Sanitation. |
Michael Steele, Hill Brace for impact, as this plan would cost families billions of dollars in additional taxes upon the transfer of appreciated property. |
Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine Moderate Democrats have quietly knifed the president's legacy bill. |
Ira Stoll, The New York Sun As feats of publishing entrepreneurship go, it's one for the record books, or at least the business school case studies Politico, a Washington-centric mostly online news organization founded in 2007, will be sold to the German publisher Axel |
Joseph Calhoun, Alhambra Jerome Powell delivered his long anticipated speech at Jackson Hole last week. Well actually, I have no idea if he was actually in Jackson Hole since the speech was delivered electronically, another victim of the delta variant. The virus itself rated barely a mention in Mr. Powell's remarks and I think that is |
Cliff Asness, AQRCapital By far the most popular question we get from value skeptics is "are the fundamental prospects for value stocks unusually poor today, justifying their low valuations versus expensive stocks?" Well, we now have an answer that doesn't require a four-hour time commitment nor a PhD. |
Elisabeth Dellinger, Fisher Financial education for young folks? There's an app for that. |
Tim Wallace, Daily Telegraph If you own your home, you may have noticed that the roof above your head has been growing more valuable at a startling rate. |
Maurie Backman, Motley Fool When you only have yourself to worry about in retirement, you can file for Social Security at an age that works for you. |
Joseph Allen & Helen Jenkins, New York Times It's time for the U.S. to define what the goals are for Covid-19. |
John Tamny, RealClearMarkets "Nature recks nothing of intentions, good or bad; the one thing she will not tolerate is disorder, and she is very particular about getting her full pay for any attempt to create disorder." ~ Albert Jay Nock It's too easily forgotten that "the people" are the market. The previous truth is a crucial one in consideration of what's taken place in the U.S. and around the world since March of 2020. In locking "the people" down, in taking away their freedom to live, work and operate their businesses as they wanted, politicians locked down the marketplace itself. That crisis followed the taking of... |
Cal Newport, The New Yorker In the modern office, stress has become a default metric for judging whether we are busy enough. |
Hayden Adams, Charles Schwab Tax-efficient investments are important because they can help lower your tax bill. Learn more with these tax-conscious investing strategies. |
Asset Allocation Team, GMO The remarkable selloff in the merger arbitrage space over the last month has led to compelling opportunity for long-term investors. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Financial Network How should we invest today? According to Commonwealth CIO Brad McMillan, with the economy in a growth phase, old strategies become new again. |
Lee Bohl, Charles Schwab Identifying so-called head-and-shoulders patterns can be tricky but profitable. |
Liz Ann Sonders, CS Last week, the S&P 500 was trading at an all-time high, but the underlying deterioration in breadth and non-confirmations by other indexes bears watching. |
Nicholas Sargen, The Hill While Fed officials say they have the tools to bring inflation under control, the open question is how willing they will be to deploy these tools if they threaten the recovery. |
Trish Regan, American Consequences The precarious economic situation we find ourselves in predates the pandemic – we chart America's historic financial flashpoints for answers. |
Charles Gasparino, NYP ViacomCBS chairwoman Shari Redstone is now in the hot seat after letting both iconic media brands fall in market value as she desperately searches for a buyer. |
Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN When Cowbell, a comfort food restaurant in New Orleans, started requiring proof of vaccination for indoor dining, some customers were less than thrilled. |
Geoff Williams, U.S. News & World Report Bankruptcy is a legal process, often seen as a last resort for people or businesses, that reduces or eliminates the obligation to pay back certain debts and offers a fresh start. But it can get confusing because different chapters of the bankruptcy code may be applied, depending on whether the debtor is an individual or business and other factors. So you shouldn't feel bad if you don't know the difference between Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy, two options that apply to consumers. |
Paul Kupiec, Law & Liberty Paul H. Kupiec discusses the problems of both a private-issued and government-issued digital currency to the financial system. |
Matt Weidinger, National Review 7.5 million Americans are set to lose expanded federal unemployment benefits on Labor Day, yet progressive policymakers aren't talking about it. Why? |
Emily Stewart, Vox The dangerous delta variant is spreading. The future of schools is unclear. And millions of workers are about to be kicked off unemployment. |
Lawrence Summers, The Washington Post The lessons of Vietnam and Afghanistan are true for economic policy: Sticking to the same approach without considering whether it still makes sense is a recipe for trouble. |
Jeanna Smialek, New York Times For Wall Street, and the dismal science as a whole, trouble is around every corner even as the economy booms. |
Claire Jones, FT Alphaville News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication |
Joel Kotkin & Cullum Clark, City Journal Dallas–Fort Worth is becoming the de facto capital of America's Heartland. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Dan Weil, Institutional Investor Buying stakes in NBA and MLB teams is just the beginning of the private equity takeover of major league sports. |
Kaushik Basu, Project Syndicate As technology advances and the environment changes, some of the key assumptions underpinning mainstream economic thinking will become obsolete. To reverse the public's loss of confidence in the discipline, economists must get back to doing what made the field so valuable in the first place. |
Eddy Elfenbein, Crossing Wall Street The best time to buy stocks is when you have money. |
Cullen Roche, Pragmatic Capitalism I see dead people. I mean, dead mutual funds. |
Christine Benz, Morningstar 'Estate planning' evokes complexity and high costs. What you need to know to get it done. |
Sonja Peteranderl, Der Spiegel Mafiosi and drug bosses have changed the face of cities around the world with their massive villas. Now, these assets are being confiscated in Italy, Berlin and Mexico and given back to the people. |
Daniel Liss, TechCrunch For so long, Mark Zuckerberg has told us all to move fast and break things. It's time for him to break Facebook. |
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