11/06/2020
Today Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch U.S. equities have performed the best when political power in Washington is split between Democrats and Republicans |
Samuel Stebbins, USA Today The U.S. economy is subject to complex, interconnected forces too innumerable for any one person to account for or anticipate. Still, when it comes to the health of the economy, the buck often stops at the president’s desk. While by no means a comprehensive measure of economic health, the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average stock index is often used as a proxy for overall economic prosperity. The best known stock market index, the Dow tracks the value of 30 public company stocks that together represent all major industries except for transportation and utilities... |
Jeffrey Tucker, AIER In the old days, which seem behind us, people were invited to marvel at the workings of the American system. For all the problems with the vote in a constitutional republic, at least it assures the peaceful transition of power. That was the core argument that old liberals made for democracy. It kept violence at bay. Instead of killing each other for power and control, we went to the ballot box, and acquiesced even when the vote didn’t go the way we wanted. No more violent revolutions! Bring the peaceful cooperation of market action to politics itself! |
Tankersley & Rappeport & Cochrane, NYT Congressional leaders and business groups are raising the possibility of new economic aid from Congress in the lame-duck session. |
John Tamny, RCM Much has been made during Election 2020 about the make-up of the typical Donald Trump voter. It’s said he’s remade the Republican Party. The base is no longer well-to-do, or even superrich. The Republican of today tends to be middle class, and from “unfashionable” parts of the U.S. While there’s some truth to the above, this is hardly new. Think back to the 1980s and 1990s. The U.S. senate included Democrats with last names like Kennedy, Pell and Rockefeller. The Democrats have long attracted inherited wealth, Hollywood has for decades heavily leaned Democratic,... |
Gene Marks, The Hill For many business owners, a vote for Biden meant a vote for potentially more shutdowns due to the pandemic. |
A.J. Rice, RealClearMarkets Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movies frequently lamented: Why must I be surrounded by idiots? But there is something worse: Partisanship masquerading as incompetence. Pollsters - and their amen corner in the mainstream press - have proved beyond the shadow of any doubt they are practitioners of that low art - before, during and after the presidential election. Which still hangs in the balance. |
Allison Schrager, Foreign Policy In the short term, progress on vaccines may matter more than any particular president. In the long term, though, it's the government's relationship with the economy that will be key. |
Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker A look into desperation. |
Chase Peterson-Withorn, Forbes These billionaires got elected, got others elected or spent big on the 2020 election. |
Charlotte Cowles, NYM Financial therapists emphasize how much your upbringing might still impact the way you think about money. |
Steve Forbes, What's Ahead A look into the future. |
Hayden Adams, Charles Schwab Helpful tax tips for your end-of-year charitable contributions, including stock donations. |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments As both Georgian Senate seats potentially head to a runoff, we explore the popular theory that a Democratic presidency and split Congress is the most bullish combo. |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Schwab Stock options can give your compensation a significant boost, but they can also be confusing. Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz explains what you need to know. |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments Long-term investors benefit from considering a couple of key factors, in our view. |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Financial Network |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Rafe Resendes, Applied Finance In October 1995, Dan Obrycki and I started Applied Finance. As we struggled to solve several valuation problems back then, we did not know that we would ultimately create and manage the Valuation 50, one [..more] |
Matt Egan, CNN The world is still anxiously awaiting the outcome of the nail biter 2020 election, but Wall Street is already in full-blown celebration mode. |
Preston Caldwell, Morningstar Neither the U.S. election outcome nor the coronavirus third wave will derail it. |
The Economist, The Economist And why that matters for everywhere else |
Dan Doonan, MarketWatch Government needs to address healthcare and housing costs and make individual savings a priority |
Leanna Orr, Institutional Investor Suit against Colorado University for not using index funds is dismissed with prejudice. |
Daniel Gros, Project Syndicate The US is haunted by the specter of a technologically dominant China and keen to ensure it never materializes. And yet, given China's fundamentals, there is little the US could do to hamper, let alone arrest, its progress. |
Ryan Young, National Review While most were focused on the presidential election, down-ballot votes delivered victories for free enterprise. |
Meredith Wadman, Science Novavax vaccine shows "markedly stronger" responses in early human trials |
Dave Sekera, Morningstar Regardless of who wins, long-term investors should remain focused on the economic recovery. |
Shang-Jin Wei, Project Syndicate The abrupt suspension of Ant Group's IPO may reflect Chinese authorities' displeasure over a recent speech by the fintech conglomerate's controlling shareholder, Jack Ma, who was critical of financial regulations that he believes show insufficient understanding and support for fintech innovation. Is Ma right? |
Alicia García-Herrero, Bruegel For all Beijing's ambitions of cracking the hegemony of the US dollar in the face of Trump administration sanctions, the yuan still has a long way to go. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Ironman, Political Calculations After bottoming in July 2020, the trailing twelve month average of the combined value of goods traded between the U.S. and China continued to move upward in September 2020. |
Scott Shackford, Reason.com Tax hikes? Drug wars? Racial Preferences? Not today. |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense Sometimes people will lie to the pollsters because that’s what people do. |
Jeff Carter, Points and Figures Blockchain provides a solution provided we implement it correctly. It’s immutable and verifiable. Very tough to change, and almost fraud-proof as long as the inputs are clean and fraud free. |
Linda Feldmann, The Christian Science Monitor President Trump has established a political legacy Trumpism that will be a fixture in the Republican Party for years to come. |
Scott Sumner, The Money Illusion People overrate the importance of who sits in the Oval Office. |
James Picerno, The Capital Spectator The outcome of the US presidential election remains unclear the morning after the Nov. 3 election, but the results so far have cleared up one misconception: Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 wasn’t a quirky outlier. Regardless of who wins the White House in the hours (or days) ahead, it’s obvious in the numbers posted so far that nearly half of voters who cast ballots prefer Trump. |
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