03/24/2021 Today
John Steele Gordon, City Journal For more than a century, its complexity and perverse effects have worked to the detriment of the American economy. |
Richard Rahn, Washington Times On average, people live longer in richer and freer countries than they do in poor ones. Knowing this, does it make sense to deliberately make a country poorer? |
Derek Thompson, The Atlantic Liberals predicted that Florida would get destroyed by its laissez-faire approach to COVID-19. Conservatives said the state was the future of the economy. What if they were both wrong? |
James Rogers, Law & Liberty James R. Rogers offers evidence that there is almost difference between the outcomes in Republican and Democratic states. |
Ben Wilterdink, RealClearMarkets More than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic first disrupted daily life, local economies are reopening and vaccine distribution is exceeding expectations. The country is poised for a historic economic recovery. Despite this exciting potential, however, there is a growing risk that public policy could derail the pursuit of the American Dream just as it gets back on track. Embedded in the PRO Act, which recently passed the House of Representatives, is a provision that would all but destroy the gig economy and significantly damage the livelihoods of many freelancers—diminishing... |
Nick Romeo, The New Yorker The labor reformer Wingham Rowan wants to reimagine labor markets for the digital age. |
Charlene Rhinehart, Motley Fool This retirement account could be the key to unlocking your financial dreams. |
Joy Wiltermuth, MarketWatch The S&P 500 index on Tuesday books its best 12-months on record since the benchmark began being published in 1957, following its bear-market plunge a year ago. |
Kim Iskyan, American Consequences Since it's a bubble market in everything as evidenced by celebrity SPACs, here are some tips to keep your portfolio from going pop. |
Chris Edwards, Washington Examiner President Biden and the Democrats just spent $1.9 trillion on an unneeded stimulus bill, and that could be just the beginning of their budget blowout. Next up is an infrastructure plan of $2 trillion or more. The stimulus bill was debt-financed, but Democrats are saying that the infrastructure bill… |
Karen Petrou, Hill A truly "good" economic place requires the Fed to take responsibility for its inequality effect, not just toss the responsibility for economic equality off to Congress and whatever administration is in charge. |
Claudia Sahm, NYT The Fed chair, Jerome Powell, has become a popular Main Street champion. Here's a history of the advocacy that made this possible. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Ryan Detrick, LPL Financial Research Monday, March 22, 2021 Top Story |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Pat O'Hare, Briefing.com It's amazing how people can sometimes look at the exact same picture and see entirely different things. That's art we suppose, or maybe it's an NFT. Anyway, we digress. It's also interesting how market participants can hear the same thing but have an entirely different take on what was heard. That captures the essence of the disparate reactions by the stock and Treasury markets to the latest FOMC decision and press conference. |
Michael Iskra, RCM As mass vaccination clinics roll out across the nation, commandeering sporting centers and arenas, critical questions remain about COVID-19 and what measures, if any, can help protect against it. Questions about immunity—how long it may last, whether vaccines are effective against emerging variants, and differences between those with natural immunity (acquired after battling COVID-19) and those who have immunity via vaccination—continue to be researched around the clock and across the globe. As answers slowly emerge, antibody testing is a powerful tool that may offer rapid answers. ... |
Paulina Likos, U.S. News SAVING FOR retirement is a long-haul kind of game. |
Jonathan Ponciano, Forbes Fueled by trillions of dollars in government spending, stocks have staged a furious rally one year after Covid crashed markets. |
Art Carden, American Institute for Economic Research Two of investing's most important principles are "understand that markets are efficient" and "diversify." I learned both principles the hard way when, as a naive high schooler who thought himself very financially sophisticated, I got a couple of hot stock tips about companies with innovative products that were going to change their industries and make their shareholders rich. Wanting to be one of those rich shareholders, I decided to buy. |
Ryan Cooper, Week Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons. |
Jim Tankersley, New York Times A pair of proposals would invest in infrastructure, education, work force development and fighting climate change, with the aim of making the economy more productive. |
Mitch McConnell, USA Today The filibuster, which requires 60 votes to advance most legislation, exists to block bad ideas from becoming law and encourage bipartisan solutions. |
Jonathan Turley, The Hill Her levies would make those with funds want to leave. |
Theodore Schleifer, Vox The crypto billionaire gave millions to the Future Forward super PAC and to support effective altruism. |
Tiffany Li, MSNBC Why NFTs and cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are so bad for the planet |
E.J. McMahon, New York Post The Democratic super-majorities in the state Assembly and Senate want to raise $7B or $8B more in new taxes â?" mostly from a few thousand multimillionaire earners who already generate a disproportionately large share of the state's revenue. |
Ann Carrns, The New York Times For eligible people, H.S.A.s accept pretax contributions that grow tax-free and aren't taxed if spent on qualifying expenses. But they're underused, experts say. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Julia Horowitz, CNN One year after the Covid-19 pandemic forced millions of workers to start clocking in from home, many companies are thinking about how to bring their employees back into the office. |
Meredith Haggerty, Vox A "great wealth transfer" may be on the horizon. |
Nick Grossman, @nickgrossman How Bitcoin is like a battery. |
Scott Grannis, Calafia Beach Pundit The demand for money currently stands very near to an all-time, eye-popping high. |
Nick Maggiulli, Of Dollars And Data Investing lessons one year since the March 2020 bottom. |
DataTrek Research, DataTrek Research How does the dollar affect earnings of various sectors? |
Howard Husock, City Journal A bipartisan bill is seeking to expand the charitable tax deduction to lower-income individuals. | |
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