11/21/2020 Today
Ross Dellenger, Sports Illustrated Any other year, Columbus would be hopping this weekend as the Buckeyes host top-10 Indiana. In 2020, restaurants and businesses will just try to stay afloat. |
Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch Dow?s recovery since March is impressive but says nothing about how long the bull market will run |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments Q3 earnings are trouncing analysts' estimatesâ?"a sign sentiment remains too pessimistic. |
Antoine Gara & Eliza Haverstock & Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes What's driving SPAC mania on Wall Street? Not the billionaires and bankers making headlines daily, but a mob of little-known hedge fund investors, the "SPAC Mafia," who are incentivized to gobble up these opaque public offerings with little concern over whether they ultimately succeed or fail. |
Maurie Backman, Motley Fool If there were a magic savings number that guaranteed financial security throughout retirement, saving for that milestone would be a lot easier. But that magic number can't exist because everyone is different. You may want to spend your retirement traveling the globe and living in a major city, while someone else may want to spend his or her senior years spending time with family and staying local. |
Editorial, New York Times The Trump administration's abrupt decision to curtail the Federal Reserve's emergency lending programs is a gamble with no upside. |
Matt Weidinger, RealClearPolicy With the lame duck session of Congress beginning, federal policymakers are reviving stimulus negotiations that stalled before the election. Differences between the sides remain significant, with... |
Jonah Goldberg, New York Post Last week, a coalition of 236 progressive groups led by teachers unions called on Biden to cancel student debt on his first days in office. Biden himself has already urged Congress to cancel $10,000 as part of a pandemic relief package. |
Nicole Carroll, USA Today Dr. Anthony Fauci has had it with people who think COVID-19 is no worse than the flu, not a big deal. I asked him how he processes that viewpoint as someone who has devoted his life to science. "You have (over 250,000 COVID-19) deaths, 11 million infections and 70,000 people in the hospital. Flu doesn't even come close," Fauci said Wednesday during our USA TODAY Editorial Board meeting. |
Jeffrey Tucker, American Institute for Economic Research This game of hunt-and-kill Covid cases has reached peak absurdity, especially in media culture. Take a look at Supermarkets are the most common place to catch Covid, new data reveals. It’s a story on a “study” assembled by Public Health England (PHE) from the NHS Test and Trace App. Here is the conclusion. In the six days of November studied, “of those who tested positive, it was found that 18.3 per cent had visited a supermarket.” |
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 |
Various, American Institute for Economic Research |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
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 |
Steven Gottlieb, U.S. News NORMALLY, A BUYER MIGHT make an offer on a home based on his or her perceived value of the property. The seller should then counter the buyer’s initial offer, and in the classic form, a back-and-forth negotiation would occur until a deal is struck at a price to which both parties agree. But when a great property is priced well, even in a softer market, buyers may find that they are not the only interested party. In this case, a bidding war may ensue. |
Arpit Gupta, City Journal A recent book explores the local dynamics of America's housing crisis. |
Mark Judge, Law & Liberty Towards the end of All About the Story: News, Power, Politics, and the Washington Post, the new memoir by former Washington Post executive editor Len Downie, there is an irony so huge that only a journalist could miss it. Mere pages after Downie cites that awful, nonsensical cliche that “journalism’s job is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,” he relates being forced to retire. It’s January 2008, and Downie is summoned to publisher Bo Jones’s office and informed it is time for him to go. Downie doesn’t take the... |
William Luther, AIER Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) appears intent to fill the two remaining vacancies on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. Judy Shelton and Christopher Waller were formally nominated by President Donald Trump in January and approved by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in July. Last Thursday, McConnell took procedural steps to set up a full Senate vote for Shelton. (Note: Shelton was previously the director of the Sound Money Project, before it moved to AIER.) The motion to limit debate (and proceed to a vote on the... |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
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? |
Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund Why you cannot predict the future. |
J. Bradford DeLong, Project Syndicate Among the many lessons of the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath in the United States is that there is no good reason to start worrying about debt when unemployment remains high and interest rates low. The hasty embrace of austerity derailed the last recovery, and it must not be allowed to do so again. |
James Hamblin, The Atlantic This is a moment for creativity. |
Luna Soley, Outside During her college break, the author went all in on solitude—living alone on a Down East island and working for one of the area’s few female skippers. Luna Soley reflects on a time of loneliness, hard work, and natural beauty. |
Aja Romano, Vox Americans are embracing dangerous conspiratorial beliefs, from QAnon to coronavirus denial. | |
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