04/03/2021
Today Nicholas Sargen, The Hill The Biden infrastructure plan's most glaring problem is that it is overly ambitious and not targeted at meeting the greatest needs. |
Rick Rojas, NYTimes The Biden administration has pledged a $2 trillion investment in the nation's infrastructure. With century-old water systems and schools vulnerable to earthquakes, there is no shortage of need. |
Staff, Intelligencer Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway chat about how President Biden's plan would benefit people over corporations. |
Catherine Rampell, WP The new administration can't pay for everything it wants to do just by soaking the rich. |
Gene Marks, WT If there's one thing you can say about Joe Biden is that, when it comes to tax increases, he's a man of his word. |
Robert Frank, New York Times Individually rational actions often yield bad outcomes, an economist says. That incontestable fact is the central rationale for government involvement in economic life. |
Slater et al., The American Prospect The Treasury secretary has made a number of concerning statements and failed to take action on a number of regulatory challenges. |
Joe Nocera, Bloomberg CEOs Can't Stay on Society's Sidelines Anymore |
Lawrence McQuillan & Adam Summers, NRO It is both fiscal and political. |
Hannah Cox, FEE Leaders at Amazon have told workers that they might sacrifice certain benefits if the push to unionize succeeds. And a glance at history indicates that these warnings are not hollow. Here are the top three ways workers would actually be worse off if the vote to unionize prevails. |
David Bahnsen, The National Review A look at why droves are leaving the state. |
Burton et al., Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- With the sun rising outside their conference room in Midtown Manhattan, the visitors to a secretive investment empire bent their heads in prayerful meditation.It was another Friday morning, 7 o'clock, and a familiar scene was unfolding again inside Archegos Capital Management, an obscure family office that would go on to shake the financial world.In the days before the pandemic, 20 or 30 people would squeeze together around the long table and, over coffee and Danishes, listen to recordings of the Bible, according to people who were there.First might come the Old Testament,... |
Ryan Detrick, LPL Financial Research Market Blog Wednesday, March 31, 2021 |
Matthew Luzzetti, Deutsche Bank Group |
Ryan Detrick, LPL Financial Research Market Blog Tuesday, March 30, 2021 |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Commonwealth CIO Brad McMillan takes a look beyond the headlines of the Archegos story, including what effect it may have on the markets and investors. |
Pierre Lemieux, Cato Institute Could he be even more anti‐market than Donald Trump? |
Dan Mitchell, International Liberty I get asked why I frequently criticize Republicans. My response is easy. I care about results rather than rhetoric. And while GOP politicians often pay lip service to the principles of limited gove… |
Kenneth Rogoff, Project Syndicate Today, it seems to be an article of faith among US policymakers and many economists that the world's appetite for dollar debt is virtually insatiable. But a modernization of China's exchange-rate arrangements could deal the dollar's status a painful blow. |
Jerusalem Demsas, Vox As Lorde said: "We live in cities." |
Susan Dziubinski, Morningstar Here's a peek at the cheapest constituents of the Morningstar Wide Moat Focus Index--as well as names that have been added and cut. |
Derek Thompson, The Atlantic mRNA's story likely will not end with COVID-19: Its potential stretches far beyond this pandemic. |
Alex Kirshner, Slate Not GameStop. Not SPACs. Not NFTs. Not even the big stuck boat. |
Chuck Collins, The Nation The US has now become the global center for money hiding and illicit wealth storage. |
Josh Dzieza, The Verge Why an organizing campaign in Alabama matters |
Richard Schwartz, CJ To survive and thrive, cities will have to overcome a number of formidable trends. |
Erica Pandey, Axios The last year widened the chasm between rich and poor. |
Ami Kassar, Inc. Biden's jobs plan is a good start but not nearly enough. |
Veronique de Rugy, Reason Workers will suffer. |
James K. Galbraith, Project Syndicate Once again, massive fiscal spending in the United States has invited warnings of inflation and triggered dark memories of the 1970s. But these fears are based on a model that has since been obliterated by economic realities – not least the rise of China, which has fundamentally reshaped the US and global economies. |
David Harsanyi, National Review The Amtrak plan would be quite impressive if we were living in 1860 and there weren't airports in virtually every city on this map. |
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