07/18/2020
Today Brian Fitzpatrick, The Hill Democrats want to repeal this tax increase. Republicans want to keep the tax increase around. That is not a misprint. If you didn't think Washington could get any weirder, it has. |
Christopher Baecker, RCM 2019 may have been my best concert year ever. Iron Maiden put on their best performance I’ve ever seen, and I finally saw one of my very favorite bands, Alice in Chains. And that’s not even half the shows I saw. I represented my fair share of what the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) reports as 172 million American concert attendees. I was stoked to keep that going in 2020, starting with a Testament show in April, and Megadeth & Lamb of God in August. Then coronavirus-induced panic swept those, and most other shows/tours away. ... |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments Campaign pledges help markets set expectations, but they aren't set in stone and don't drive returns. |
Brad Polumbo, Washington Examiner At a certain point, extreme "Never Trump" Republicans become indistinguishable from left-wing activists. There's no better example of this divergence than the so-called "Lincoln Project." |
Neera Tanden, USA Today We are living through one of the greatest economic failures of any president in decades, and that has come as a result of the second surge of coronavirus cases in the Southern states. No single actor is more responsible for this surge than President Donald Trump. He pushed states to reopen, chided and cajoled Republican governors and, despite the rising number of infections and deaths related to the coronavirus, he said over and over again that it was “going away.” He said that we would now witness the “great American comeback,” and that the economy would... |
Steven Malanga, City Journal The nation's fiscal basket case is looking to take on even more debt. |
Bill Walton, The Bill Walton Show The crack-up over a virus is being paid for by those with the least. |
Rishi Iyengar, CNN Since the start of 2020, the biggest names in US tech have invested around $17 billion in India. |
Paul Sullivan, NYT As homeowners rethink their surroundings and rush to relocate, companies are offering creative ways to help ease a fraught process. |
Joy Wiltermuth, MarketWatch There is nothing to ?stop the hammer from coming down,? says one lender |
Allison Schrager, City Journal Joe Biden's vision of capitalism is a recipe for failure. |
Paul Krugman, New York Times Millions of unemployed Americans face imminent catastrophe. |
Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab Rate of change and inflection points in economic data drive stocks; but in these unique times, the level of said data needs to be considered, too. |
William Briggs, The Stream COVID-19 cases did rise after lockdowns eased. A rise in cases sounds bad, but shouldn't panic us. There is no "spike" or "surge" in deaths. |
Jerry Bowyer, Vident Financial |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Schwab Procrastination is not a good way to deal with market volatility, says Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz. Try dollar-cost averaging instead. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Collin Martin, Charles Schwab We can't rule it out completely, but we believe the risk is low. |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense Benjamin Graham on the most dangerous place to be as an investor. |
Karen Andersen, Morningstar Three new vaccines for coronavirus look poised for emergency use authorization in the U.S. this fall. |
Brett Arends, MarketWatch You're taking a bet you may not fully realize |
Ginia Bellafante, New York Times A century ago, children in New York City attended classes during a pandemic. It seemed to work. |
Adam Clark Estes, Vox It looks like we're stuck with video chat. Is that such a bad thing? |
Edward Harrison, Credit Writedowns Unemployment claims are likely to surge again. |
Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker The plague marked the end of the dark ages and the start of a great cultural renewal. Could COVID do the same? |
Matt Egan, CNN The stark divide between Main Street and Wall Street is on display in the shifting fortunes of America's big banks. |
Julia Horowitz, CNN Business When the novel coronavirus sent investors running for the exits in March, there was a mad dash to snap up US dollars, the world's ultimate safe haven asset. |
Christian Britschgi, Reason So long as governments view lockdowns as their primary tool for combating COVID-19, they are in effect sentencing bars and other shuttered businesses to a likely death. |
Garrett Graff, Wired In a plot twist, the administration’s assault on the Chinese telecom giant is gaining traction. At heart, the US has an interest in its own electronic surveillance capabilities. |
Anna North, Vox "Families are not okay," one expert says. It's making the economic crisis way worse. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Vitaliy Katsenelson, Contrarian Edge Tesla’s stock price depends on Elon Musk's ability to maintain a temporal wormhole. |
Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN In early July, farmer Jeremy Storey dropped off an order of eggs at a restaurant's back door as planned and continued on his way. |
Scott Sumner, The Money Illusion The more things change.... |
Ronald Bailey, Reason It's uncanny how solving climate change just happens to require the progressives' longstanding economic agenda. |
Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund Everyone is innocently short-sighted when trying to make sense of 2020. |
Nick Maggiulli, Of Dollars & Data On the different definitions of risk, what kind of risk is the most important, and what you can do about it. |
Macromon, Global Macro Monitor The U.S. economy is not real and in a current state of "suspended animation" The COVID rescue package has introduced significant distortions into the economy The "Corona Capitalists," some very well capitalized and liquid corporations, have accounted for a large portion of the loan volume in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). |
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