08/14/2021
Today Alex Pollock, Law & Liberty Alex J. Pollock recounts President Nixon's decision to take the U.S. dollar off the gold standard on August 15, 1971. |
John Tatom, The Hill Inflation is soaring, and the Biden administration's policies already are affecting output and prices. |
Paul Krugman, New York Times Please, Senator Manchin, do the math. |
Andy Puzder, RealClearPolitics What is all this Biden inflation tax talk really about? What is the actual effect of inflation on the lives of real people? Well, below is a chart that... |
Jessica Anderson & James Jay Carafano, The Examiner "We have met the enemy, and they are us," declared Walt Kelly in the comic strip Pogo. When it comes to dealing with China, the greatest threat to the peace, freedom, and prosperity of all Americans, he could well be right. |
Anay Remón García, USA TODAY This summer, for the first time in six decades, Cubans demanded the only thing that can change the present and free us from a grim future: Freedom. |
Patrick Brown, City Journal More housing should be built—but some housing advocates are too inflexible. |
Madeline Berg,Forbes Reese Witherspoon takes in huge fees for her roles on-screen—but it's a savvy business move that's rocketed her up the charts as the wealthiest actress in the world. |
German Lopez, Vox The coronavirus may never truly go away. |
Jon Miltimore, Foundation for Economic Education Vaccine breakthroughs appear to be a much bigger problem than the CDC is letting on, emerging evidence suggests. "The breakthrough problem is much more concerning than what our public officials have transmitted," Dr. Eric Topol told New York magazine this week. |
Matt Egan, CNN A growing number of major companies are exploring vaccine mandates for their employees as the Delta variant continues to spread through America and around the world. |
Seth Berenzweig & John Tamny, TCB Are Forced Vaccinations the Way to go? Seth Berenzweig and John Tamny discuss this very important and volatile issue |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Schwab Working longer is just about always a financial plus, but there's more to consider. |
Christopher Sheldon, KKR Credit The market will continue to keep investors in suspense. |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Financial Network What's the story with inflation? Commonwealth CIO Brad McMillan evaluates the numbers to determine where inflation is coming from—and where it's going. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Jim Masturzo & Michele Mazzoleni, RALLC Recent conversations in the investment industry are dominated by predictions about the path of the inflation rate and its implications for capital markets. Rather than predicting what will happen to inflation in the future—a particularly arduous and humbling task—we ask a simple question: What can past inflation dynamics tell us about the equity market's future returns? We find it can tell us a lot. |
Connor Harris, Manhattan Institute Many cities with high housing costs have adopted "inclusionary zoning" (IZ) ordinances that either incentivize or force developers of large housing projects to rent a portion of the units for below-market rates. |
Rani Molla, Vox Working motherhood is getting harder. Let's fix that. |
Michelle Celarier, II "Trading options was addictive, like cocaine," says one investor. "It was instant gratification." |
Quinn Myers, Mel Magazine What could possibly go wrong? |
Margaret Giles, Morningstar SPACs and other new companies may not be the best way to capitalize on growing EV adoption. |
Jeanna Smialek, New York Times Frantic caterers, $200,000 weekends: The wedding industry is on fire, bringing spending, and bottlenecks. |
Emily Parker, CNN Business We may soon be living in a CBDC world. And if America stays on the sidelines, it could miss its chance to influence what that world looks like. |
Ryan Yu, CS Monitor Britney Spears calls her case "abusive," and her dad agreed to step down Thursday. Critics say conservatorships facilitate elder abuse and undercut disability rights. |
George Magnus, Newstatesman In privileging political control over market freedom, the new superpower risks its own rise. |
Philip Pilkington, Newsweek The markets are almost certainly deep into the late stages of a bubble. At some point, something will spook them. |
John B. Taylor, Project Syndicate Despite the recent surge of inflation in the United States, the Federal Reserve is keeping the federal funds rate in a range far below what its own monetary-policy rules would prescribe. But since history shows that this deviation cannot last indefinitely, it would be better to normalize sooner rather than later. |
Justin Elliott, ProPublica Billionaire business owners deployed lobbyists to make sure Trump's 2017 tax bill was tailored to their benefit. Confidential IRS records show the windfall that followed. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Veronique de Rugy, Reason As it turns out, state and local tax revenues hardly collapsed. |
Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist High house prices in 2007 weren't that out of whack after all. |
Jamie Powell, FT Alphaville Turns out not even Palantir can escape Silicon Valley-speak. |
Tim O'Reilly, Naked Capitalism Why Elon Musk, despite having built significant operating companies, is still mainly in the bezzle business. |
Ironman, Political Calculations The triple dip global recession from the coronavirus pandemic continued deepening in July 2021. |
Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture There is a lot companies could do to increase vaccine uptake. |
Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund A big lesson from history is how chance encounters lead to both magic and mayhem in ways that would have been impossible to predict. |
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