04/20/2021
Today Christina Rice, The Hill Companies like Zoom are the wrong targets for a very simple reason that politicians choose to ignore. |
Sarah Jones, New York An Amazon driver on delivering your packages, being tracked by his bosses, and having to pee in bottles. |
Andy Puzder, RealClearMarkets Big labor suffered a significant loss in its attempt to unionize employees at Amazon's warehouse facility in Bessemer, Alabama. Of the workers eligible to vote, an embarrassingly small 16% voted to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. It was the most recent in a series of high-profile losses for labor including failed attempts to unionize factories for Volkswagen, Nissan Motors, and Boeing. In each case, union leaders bet that they could convince workers it was in their best interests to be enrolled in a union that would stand up to management over wages and working... |
Joseph Calhoun, Alhambra One of the most common complaints I hear about the markets is that they are "divorced from reality", that they aren't acting as the current economic data would seem to dictate. I've been in this business for 30 years and I think I first heard that in year one. Or maybe even before I decided |
Seth Levine, The Integrating Investor Many think that "Bitcoin fixes this" when it comes to the troubled financial system. This is backwards. It's decentralized finance that fixes crypto. |
James Suroweicki, MSNBC The game(s) can continue only as long as people are willing to play. |
Daniel Kern, U.S. News & World Report What stocks will gain from the legislation? |
Christopher Baecker, RealClearMarkets When George W. Bush not only won reelection in 2004, but saw his republican majority in the senate padded to fifty-five, I started daydreaming about the possibilities. While he went the direction of reforming social security, a necessary venture for which he pushed the good idea to return some control to taxpayers, my mind drifted toward tax reform. He'd cut them right out of the gate, and then again in 2003. Though he campaigned on dropping the top marginal rate from almost 40% to 33%, the legislative sausage-making process spit out 35%. |
Donald Boudreaux, AIER "The greatest compliment paid to the Great Barrington Declaration, therefore, is one wholly unintended: Many of its staunchest opponents offer against it nothing beyond ad hominem attacks and accusations of guilt by association. This Declaration must indeed be powerful!" ~ Donald J. Boudreaux |
Mika Gröndahl, New York Times As vaccines become widely available and restrictions are eased, millions of people are flying again, raising questions about just how safe it is now to board a flight. |
Ron Paul, American Consequences Fauci. Lockdowns. Vaccine Passports. America's pandemic landscape is looking less like a thriving democracy and more like a tyrannical state. |
Maurie Backman, Motley Fool Establishing a Social Security strategy is important – especially when you and your spouse have a large age difference to contend with. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Rob Williams, Charles Schwab How to turn retirement savings into retirement income. |
Jeffrey Kleintop, Charles Schwab The specific set of conditions that have historically characterized the start of an investment bubble appear to be forming. |
Ryan Detrick, LPL Financial Research Market Blog Wednesday, April 14, 2021 "I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life." George Burns |
Daniel Kern & Renee Kwok, TFC Financial Management |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Schwab Living paycheck to paycheck can feel like you're on an endless financial treadmill. Here's how to jump off. |
Editorial, New York Post Eight trillion dollars. That's how much President Joe Biden has proposed in new spending — in just the 2½ months since taking office. It's an absurd figure, equal to more than a third of America's … |
Glenn Altschuler, The Hill Biden faced a confluence of crises as great or greater than any of his predecessors — and the fundamental challenges remain. |
Travis Nix, Washington Examiner With slim majorities in the House and Senate, Democratic lawmakers have a prime opportunity to get their pet projects passed thanks to President Joe Biden's $2 trillion "infrastructure plan." And it's an opportunity that Rep. Tom Suozzi of New York isn't passing up. He's threatening to vote against… |
Editorial, New York Times The corporate income tax has been gutted. Raising rates and cracking down on evasion are sensible ways to come up with trillions of dollars. |
Buck Sexton, American Consequences Buck Sexton says it's time to end the contagious, viral strain known as Dr. Fauci, the Pseudo-Science Lockdown Leprechaun. |
Dylan Scott & Jun Michael Park, Vox The inside account of how one country built a system to defeat the pandemic. |
Various, AIER He's been effective from the beginning. |
Therese Poletti, MarketWatch Tech giants across nearly every sector are expected to report solid earnings gains in both the coming quarter and the rest of 2021, as the pandemic... |
Robert J. Shiller, New York Times To understand where the stock market may be heading, a Nobel laureate examines the pop culture of one of the greatest bull markets in history. |
Gregory van Kipnis, AIER "There are other reasons for the Buffett Indicator ratio to be trending higher. Corporate earnings are growing nearly twice as rapidly as the growth in nominal GDP. The Buffett indicator, though at high historical levels, is not per se signaling that the market is overvalued." |
Alicia McElhaney, II The inside story of how Jim Vos and his team at Aksia helped unspool the mystery of Bernie Madoff. |
Katherine Revello, Reason Hawley's legislation would give officials more room to unilaterally punish business behaviors they personally don't like. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture A massive shift is occurring in the labor market today, one that has been misinterpreted by economists of all stripes. |
Scott Sumner, Econlib This will be a very weird summer. |
Nate Berg, Fast Company A 27-year-old real estate agent is auctioning off an NFT that comes with an IRL duplex in Thousand Oaks, California. Why? |
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon If Bing Crosby were alive today he would have created an NFT of his song ‘Brother Can You Spare Me A Dime?‘ |
Michael Batnick, The Irrelevant Investor Things are always changing |
Sigal Samuel, Vox From backyard astronomy to birding, amateurs have been busy collecting data — and making real discoveries. |
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