06/30/2021
Today Stephen Moore & David Simon, TAS The greatest environmental scare of the second half of the 20th century — over population — is now conceded to have been a monumental fraud. |
Artem Milinchuk, Worth Farmland is the latest asset class to be revolutionized by the fintech wave. Whether it's through REITs, commodity ETFs or crowdfunding platforms, farmland sticks out among investors, both in terms of its attractive return on investment and its potential to increase the sustainability of the agriculture sector. |
Bonnie Kristian, The Week Do you think Bill Gates bothers with a QR code menu? |
Roger Alford & Benjamin Harris, Cato The purchase of a home is one of the most important events in a person's life. To many, the market for buying and selling homes may appear competitive, allowing current and aspiring homeowners to freely buy and sell their properties according to market‐based principles. In truth, a stringent set of rules and norms dominates the residential housing market, dictating how real estate agents are compensated and whether one can practically sell a home without paying a small fortune in fees. The cost of all this to consumers amounts to tens of billions of dollars a year. |
Pat Garofalo, New York Times Asking elected officials to keep silent is bad for democracy. |
John Tamny, AC There's one immutable fact about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos you'll all begrudgingly agree with: your life's easier with Amazon. |
Alessandro Silvia, RealClearMarkets Say goodbye to Warren Buffett and the traditional investment metrics of value, growth potential, an economic moat, and a company's strong leadership. It's time to embrace the new true way of investing: the government-mandated disclosure of the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) impact of a company. Or so some want you to think. To many, a pin on an employee's apron, a paper straw, or whatever the company's social media intern tweeted that morning could not have the slightest effect on the taste of their coffee or their choice of fast food restaurant. Yet to a select few, there could... |
Patrick Watson, Mauldin Economics According to some analysts, higher inflation is on its way. Americans will spend like crazy and drive prices higher as the pandemic recedes. |
Paola Rosa-Aquino, New York Magazine A dose of an mRNA vaccine may give recipients of viral-vector vaccines a more robust immune response against the dangerous variant. |
Jeffrey Tucker, RCM Bopping around on the Internet, I ran across the latest terrifying video from Anthony "I-Am-Science" Fauci warning about the Delta Variant. It will soon be everywhere in the US, he says, just like it took over the UK. This might be correct in terms of spread (the virus has to become endemic if it isn't already) but now everyone knows the ropes about the latest chapter in all the reasons why we should live in fear and give up our freedoms. |
David DesRosiers, RCF Trusted – Balanced – Independent: Support RealClearFoundation's Summer Campaign By David DesRosiers, President, RealClearFoundation A series of narratives, once... |
Brad Close, The Hill Nearly a quarter of small businesses say taxes already are the single biggest problem they face. |
Russell Redenbaugh & James Juliano, Kairos Capital Management |
Rob Arnott, Vitali Kalesnik & Lillian Wu, Research Affiliates Tesla entered the S&P 500 Index on December 21, 2020. Over the next six months, AIV, the stock deleted to make way for TSLA, outperformed TSLA by a stupendous margin—exactly as we expected, based on our research. Index rebalances impose a variety of costs on investors. Smarter index design could go far to mitigate these costs. |
Michael Iachini, Charles Schwab An index ETF-only portfolio can be a straightforward yet flexible investment solution. |
Benjamin Yount, The Center Square (The Center Square) – The latest snapshot of Wisconsin businesses once again shows there are a lot of open jobs and not a lot of people to fill them. |
Jeffrey Kleintop, Charles Schwab It's possible that good data could be interpreted as bad news for U.S. markets in the near-term as strong economic data could prompt the Fed to unwind earlier. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Various, American Bankers Association |
David Eifrig, American Consequences Nothing beats a government pension. But like a lot of cliches and 20th century thinking about finances, is that idea even valid anymore? |
Aaron Carroll, New York Times The United States has always needed mandates to overcome serious diseases |
Sheila Holt, The American Thinker Now that genetically modified mosquitos have been unleashed upon Florida in a |
Samuel Gregg, Law & Liberty Samuel Gregg reviews Peter J. Boettke, Alexander Salter, and Daniel J. Smith's Money and the Rule of Law. |
Terry Nguyen, Vox American, Delta, and United spent a year laying off workers. Now the airlines need them back. |
Larry Kudlow, The New York Sun To double-cross or not to double-cross. That is this evening's question. I've already written about it once, but it's a major moment. An hour after allegedly making a bipartisan infrastructure deal with ten senators, including five Republicans, Mr |
Sarah Estelle, Hill Shortages of workers are real, but only persistent where government policy makes it harder to alleviate them. |
Patricia Cohen, NYT Missouri scrapped federal pay to the unemployed, saying it kept people out of the labor market. But so far, workers still seem to be choosy. |
Christopher Barnard & Thomas Hochman, Examiner In mid-February, winter storms swept across Texas, crippling the state's electrical grid amid subzero temperatures and skyrocketing energy demand. Texans went without power for days while businesses suffered billions in damages. Over 100 people lost their lives. |
Anne Helen Petersen, Vox Upward mobility is common for the millions who come to the US. But there's a lot more to the story. |
Steven Malanga, City Journal Despite budget surpluses, Massachusetts Democrats plot a giant increase on wealthy residents. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Jemima Kelly, Financial Times If a big holder of bitcoin dies the only thing that matters to other bitcoiners is whether his bitcoin is recoverable. |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar Should we be concerned about the financial markets' excesses? |
Charlie Bilello, Compound Advisors The most important trends in markets and investing. |
Bari Weiss, Common Sense with Bari Weiss The new inclusion policy put out by Amazon Studios offers entries on "womxn" and "acquired limb difference." Meantime, the company's drivers urinate in bottles. |
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon Semiconductors are magical toys. |
Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution We'll be studying the pandemic recession for decades. |
Anne O. Krueger, Project Syndicate With the US Innovation and Competition Act of 2021, America is fully embracing industrial policy as the all-encompassing solution to a wide range of economic, social, and strategic problems. But all of the objectives articulated in the bill could be achieved more effectively by other means. |
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