04/16/2021
Today Patrick Hedger, Dispatch Companies don't give up their rights just because they take advantage of infrastructure or government benefits. |
Bonnie Kristian, The Week The solution to the millennial housing crunch is actually really simple |
Sarah Anderson, RealClearMarkets Well-respected dictionaries worldwide recently found themselves at odds with the Democratic party. In this case, the Dems attempted to redefine "infrastructure." Hailing from the controversy-ridden state of New York, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand kicked off the nonsense, for which she was rightly relentlessly trolled, The junior senator claimed "Paid leave is infrastructure. Child care is infrastructure. Caregiving is infrastructure." |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments As investors' greed starts flowing, bad apples probably see opportunities—here is what to watch out for. |
Bernard Sharfman, RCM It is never a good sign when a senator, no matter what party affiliation, decides to involve himself in the governance arrangements of our leading public companies. Yet here we are, with Senator Sherrod Brown introducing a joint resolution under the Congress Review Act seeking to void the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) new rule on shareholder proposals. If this filibuster-proof resolution is approved by both the Senate and the House and signed by the president, then the rule shall immediately have no force or effect and the SEC would also be prevented from putting into place a... |
Erik Loomis, New York Times Our system of labor law and regulations has too strongly tilted the playing field in favor of companies and against unions. |
Patrick Pizzella & Alfredo Ortiz, The Hill Liberals should stand down when it comes to this issue. |
Jeffrey Tucker, Am Institute for Economic Research "These are three of what will be thousands of books that will be appearing in the coming years on these tragic times. I'm willing to wager that most of these books will severely condemn the policy decisions of the last year, just as these have done. There will be a reckoning. These books are an... |
Lawrence Kudlow, New York Sun Let's turn to the issue of voting rights and corporate chief executives. A statement organized in recent days by the former CEO of American Express, Kenneth Chenault, and Merck's chief executive, Kenneth Frazier. A large number of companies signed it |
Susan Molinari, RCM This year marks the 160th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the United States and Italy, ties reaffirmed when Italy became a republic in 1946. Since then, our two nations have forged remarkable economic and cultural partnerships with deep connections on both sides of the Atlantic. This historic anniversary marks the bond between the United States and Italy and is uniquely personally as well. My grandparents immigrated to the United States from Calabria and Naples, Italy in the early 1900's and I grew up surrounded by a large family with strong Italian roots in Staten Island, New... |
Jim Stergios, RCP For state governments, the good news is that the American Rescue Plan recently signed by President Biden will inject $350 billion into their budgets. The bad news is that it places unwise and pos |
Jordan Weissmann, Slate Weighing the evidence in a late-pandemic mystery. |
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. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab Over the past 70 years, rising government debt generally has been accompanied by weaker economic activity. But it's not a simple relationship. |
Nouriel Roubini, Project Syndicate Lost in the debate over whether today's ultra-loose fiscal and monetary policies will trigger painful inflation is the broader risk posed by potential negative supply shocks. From trade wars and de-globalization to aging populations and populist politics, there is no shortage of inflationary threats on the horizon. |
Peter Suderman, Reason Would raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour cost jobs? |
Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund Unsual stories from Morgan Housel |
Rani Molla, Re/code Five charts that show how dramatically the pandemic affected our spending. |
Don Clark, NY Times The internet-connected world is completely dependent on the production of semiconductors. That's become a problem now that supplies are running short. |
Ed Yardeni, Dr. Ed's Blog Four recent observatios about the Federal Reserve. |
Bruce Bawer, City Journal Woke corporations like Procter & Gamble have turned trans ideology into a marketing tool. |
Rep. Jason Smith, Washington Examiner When President Joe Biden recently announced a $2.3 trillion spending plan, on the heels of the nearly $2 trillion bailout bill enacted in March, some Democrats in Washington complained. Their complaints: The price tag was not big enough, and the Washington power grab was not ambitious enough. |
Molly Kinder & Martha Ross, New York Times President Biden understands that caregiving is infrastructure, and that all families need it. |
Kalev Leetaru, RealClearPolitics RealClear Opinion Research recently conducted a poll about Biden's first 100 days in office. One of the questions asked was about changing the tax code and raising corporate tax rates to 28%. The timeline below shows monthly mentions of law enforcement on television news over the past decade, showing it was a significant topic in the aftermath of the Great Recession and again in 2016-2017 with the Trump administration's tax cuts, but there has been no major increase in coverage since Biden's election. Fox News has mentioned taxation the most of the three channels over the past decade and CNN... |
David Trainer & Kyle Guske & Matt Shuler, MarketWatch Coinbase may be a good company, but COIN, valued at $100 billion, is not an attractive stock to own. |
Brad Polumbo, Fdn. for Economic Education The reality TV star's poignant warning is borne out by the statistics. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
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Matt Taibbi, TK News by Matt Taibbi Gaetz, Greenwald, and accusations in the Twitter age |
Mark Esposito, Project Syndicate We are facing an acute crisis of technological opportunity and access, owing to an invasive business model that has proven incapable of supporting equity and inclusion. The stakes are high, and the market won't fix the problem. |
Eric Boehm, Reason The short-term inflation outlook isn't as grim as it looks, but the long-term situation could be awful |
Douglas A. McIntyre, 24/7 Wall St. John D. Rockefeller was the first American billionaire and, to this day, he is by far the wealthiest. |
C. Thomas Howard, Enterprising Investor Is active equity poised for a new golden era? |
Michael Batnick, The Irrelevant Investor Housing prices are red hot. That doesn't mean they're going to crash. |
Jamie Powell, FT Beware bond-like volatility with equity-like returns |
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