10/23/2020
Today Jeffrey Tucker, American Institute for Economic Research The lockdowns have disproportionately targeted fun. No house parties. No travel. Bowling, bars, Broadway, theater, amusement parks, all banned. Weddings, forget it. Restaurants, hotels, conventions, and even golf were all targeted by the lockdowners. |
Ben Casselman & Jim Tankersley, NYT President Trump has blamed Democratic officials' rules for impeding the recovery. But even where restrictions are few, business is far from normal. |
John Tamny, RCM Imagine 100 people on a wholly deserted island. Life would be pretty dreadful, right? With only 100 people producing, work would be endless in return for very few of life's comforts. At which... |
Gregg Gonsalves, Nation The question is how we'll remake the world. |
Christopher Baecker, RealClearMarkets A high school classmate of mine recently celebrated her birthday. I used the occasion to express my gratitude to her, again, for hooking me up with her job at a local video store (remember those?) when she went off to Texas A&M after graduation. I had been working for a rich family at McDonalds. It was nauseating watching them pull up in their high-priced luxury cars, constantly flaunting their bling. I secretly dreamt of Uncle Sam sticking it to them come April 15th. |
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. |
Steve Delie, Hill Biden's pro-union plan would strip states of their ability to regulate their own affairs. |
F. Vincent Vernuccio, RCM Should the government require the scandal-plagued UAW to represent nonmember autoworkers who have rejected them repeatedly? Should public companies be required to appoint union representatives to their boards? These are the solutions powerful labor unions, and even some right-of-center think tanks, prescribe to revive unions’ falling membership. But they will do more harm than good. |
Michela Tindera, Forbes The couple's earnings skyrocketed after Joe Biden's term as vice president ended. |
Paul Katzeff, Investor's Business Daily Just weeks remain in 2020. But that's still time enough to benefit from 2020's IRA contribution limits. And odds are that you haven't already kicked in the maximum allowed. |
Jeffrey Snider, RCM Aware, but don’t fully understand. Doing something, though only just to make it look like something is being done. Never truly radical enough because what’s radical is the absolute need to basically rewrite a half century. Before there was March 2020, there had been May 29, 2018; the two connected by an unusually unvaried line running through the Treasury market. That line was detoured slightly by the events of September 2019, and how those led the Fed to make everything worse. |
Paul Davidson, USA Today Christian Meza, of Pacific, Washington, relished his job as a bartender – the camaraderie, the glamour, the small pleasures of making an eye-catching drink. Even after the COVID-19 pandemic sidelined him during a monthlong state shutdown last spring and then shriveled his income, he held on, hoping the crisis would ease and business would bounce back. |
Bret Swanson, American Enterprise Institute Surprisingly successful spectrum policy. |
Matthew Luzzetti, Deutsche Bank Group |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Adam Phillips, BMO Global Asset Management |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments What this latest milestone doesâ?"and doesn'tâ?"mean for investors. |
Anne Krueger, PS During his first presidential campaign four years ago, Donald Trump promised to change the way America does business. He has kept that promise: Now more than ever, America resembles the kind of crony-capitalist system that one more commonly associates with developing and post-communist countries. |
Mark Zandi, CNN Business This has been a rotten year, and any chance of it ending on a high note has faded. The Covid-19 pandemic is intensifying, rancor over the US presidential election is mounting, and lawmakers haven't come to terms on another fiscal rescue package to shore up the fragile economy. It is difficult to see how the economy will be able to gain any traction until next year when the pandemic and election are hopefully in the history books. |
William Watts, MarketWatch Stubborn 2-year Treasury yields and languishing bank stocks fail to confirm message: analyst |
Dave Sekera, Morningstar We examine the major contrasts between the two administrations when it comes to tax policy, international relations, and infrastructure and how companies would fare. |
Nick Maggiulli, Of Dollars & Data On investing in fixed income in a low yield world. |
Rani Molla, Vox For those who have gone back to the office, not much has really changed. |
Ironman, Political Calculations The surprising answer for most Americans is yes. |
Tim Wu, The New York Times The Justice Department is demanding that the company prove its greatness by competing in the market, not by buying its way out of it. |
Josh Dzieza, The Verge Behind the scenes at the promised Foxconn factory in Wisconsin. |
Christine Idzelis, II Is the equity market recovery during the pandemic justified? |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar Graduating from a spreadsheet to simulations. |
Shirin Ghaffary & Rani Molla, Vox The Department of Justice says the company's anti-competitive business practices harm Americans. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Rusty Guinn, Epsilon Theory Nobody cares about the deficit. |
Jamie Powell, FT Alphaville News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the world?s leading global business publication |
Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Instapundit Big tech erred by censoring the Hunter Biden story. |
Scott Sumner, The Money Illusion In 2009, China was the first to recover. As growth there surged in 2009, it began pulling the rest of the world away from the brink.Now it seems to be happening again. |
Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias The cost to benefit ratio is way out of whack. |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense You never know what's going to work in Hollywood or in investing. |
Diane Coyle, Wired An economy of tech billionaires and gig workers, with middle-income jobs undercut by automation, is not politically sustainable |
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