11/23/2020 Today
Charles Gasparino, New York Post There's a fair amount of sunshine on Wall Street these days about the country's future and the likely end of the pandemic in a few months. |
Claudia Sahm, New York Times His Treasury secretary is shackling the nation's central bank and closing an emergency program for local governments. |
Jon Miltimore, FEE Walt Ehmer, the CEO of Waffle House, didn’t mince words when he explained his biggest problem with economic lockdowns stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. "None of the people who make the decisions to shut down businesses and impact people's livelihoods ever have their own livelihood impacted," Ehmer recently told Business Insider. |
James Pethokoukis, 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. |
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Joe Biden's election points to historic gains in the fight against climate change. |
Jeffrey Tucker, American Institute for Economic Research he phrase “fog of war” is attributed to Carl von Clausewitz. It has come to refer to the confusion and uncertainty felt by everyone in the midst of conflict. It is often unclear who is making decisions and why, and what the relationships are between the strategies and the goals. Even the rationale can become elusive as frustration and disorientation displace clarity and rationality. |
Michael Fumento, Issues & Insights Two promising vaccines have sprung up that might slay the COVID-19 dragon. The only question is, are people too scared to get vaccinated? |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments Electric car maker Tesla's inclusion in the S&P 500â?"and the stock's coincident jumpâ?"has many hunting for the next stock to join. Here is why you shouldn't bother. |
John Tamny, Forbes Let?s not add to what?s bad policy with nonsensical allusions to Scranton paying for bailouts of Beverly Hills, Manhattan and Pacific Heights |
Andrew Wilford, RCM Raising the federal minimum wage from its current $7.25 an hour rate has been a progressive dream for some time. So much so, it seems, that Democrats are willing to push for it despite the worst economic climate for such a change in years. Democrats in Congress are expected to push for a $15 an hour minimum wage as part of the next major COVID-19 relief bill. Though this would likely be paired with some business tax incentives to blunt the impact on small businesses, it remains a dangerous idea that could hamper the economic recovery from the pandemic. |
Rep. French Hill, Examiner There are millions of jobs in the United States that remain unfilled because employers struggle to find applicants with the skills required for certain positions. Apprenticeships and other forms of work-based learning are tailored to help shrink the jobs gap in the U.S. because they offer American workers the opportunity to succeed without being tied to large sums of student debt. |
Christy Bieber, Motley Fool Successfully saving enough for retirement is challenging under the best of circumstances. That's why it's so important to avoid major mistakes. Unfortunately, there's a lot that could go wrong, from picking the wrong asset allocation to choosing investments with high fees that eat away at your returns. |
Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab Recent positive COVID-19 vaccine may represent a light at the end of the tunnel; but the resurgent virus means we're still in the darkest part of the tunnel. |
Brian Riedl, Manhattan Institute The latest long-term budget estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) show unsustainable growth of government debt (Chart 1). This debtâ?"which was 40% of the economy before the 2008 recessionâ?"will surpass 100% this year, on its way to 195% of the economy in 30 years.[1] And this... |
Allie Fleder, SimplyWise The November 2020 SimplyWise Retirement Confidence Index found that 71% of Americans aged 70+ are concerned about Social Security drying up. |
Michael Hendrix & Don Boyd, Manhattan Institute New York City has had its share of public health crises and pandemics, from cholera in the 1830s to influenza in 1918 and the coronavirus in 2020. Disease, after all, is one of the demons of density. In each instance, large numbers of people left the city, particularly higher-income residents... |
Kathy Jones, Charles Schwab Ten-year Treasury bond yields may rise as high as 1.6% in 2021, reflecting prospects for faster economic growth. |
Scott Lincicome, Cato Institute |
Matt McFarland, CNN Hyperloops burst onto the scene in 2013. Elon Musk detailed a new type of train service in a low-pressure tube that would reach speeds up to 760 mph. The train would float on a cushion of air and be powered down the tracks by magnets. |
Niraj Chokshi & Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times U.S. airlines expect Thanksgiving to be their busiest period since the pandemic began. But with new virus fears, a return to normal is nowhere in sight. |
Hayden Adams, Charles Schwab Working from home could present tax challenges for some workersâ?"and business owners. |
Brad Polumbo, Foundation for Economic Education |
James Caton, American Institute for Economic Research |
Madeline Berg, Forbes As the relationship between the media mogul and President sours, a look at their fortunes. |
Lawrence McMillan, MarketWatch This year has been historic for put-call ratios; here?s what that means |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Casey Carlisle, UncleNap 25 October 2020 Thinking of moving? No, I'm not talking about a move down the street, to the other side of the tracks, or to a neighboring city or town â?" nor am I talking about something a bit mo |
Jemima Kelly, Financial Times Statistics is not our strong suit |
Daniel Gros, Project Syndicate As the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic threatens Europe, governments should induce restaurant, bar, and shop owners to take a paid vacation, rather than ordering them to close. Such a policy promises much lower fiscal and social costs and would be politically far easier to sustain in the tough winter months ahead. |
Michael Santoli, CNBC S&P's decision to add Tesla to the S&P 500 next month will force some mechanical selling by index funds of the other 499 stocks in the benchmark. |
Michael Johnston, Evergreen - Gavekal With budget deficits running rampant across our union, states will undoubtedly look for new sources of revenue to cover shortfalls. |
Editors, The Christian Science Monitor The flow of new ideas across borders contributes to economic progress more than ever. That fact drives many of the latest trade deals despite the pandemic and anti-globalization. |
Leah McGrath Goodman, II Cushing, Oklahoma, set the stage for the Great Oil Price Crash of 2020. But was it really to blame? | |
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