08/18/2021
Today John Schnatter, Examiner Federal COVID-19 unemployment benefits are set to expire in September, and that's great news for small businesses. Unfortunately, the real fight to save small businesses is only beginning as President Joe Biden seeks to implement an economic agenda that is anti-small business. |
Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN The jobs that major chains in the United States are having the most trouble filling right now aren't inside their stores ringing up customers and stocking shelves. They're at their warehouses selecting items, packing boxes and loading trucks. |
Market Minder, Fisher Headlines' reaction to some disappointing data seems overblown to us. |
Dan Ferris, American Consequences The investment game is more about not losing money rather than making it. So outfox the competition by hedging your bets. |
Richard Salsman, NYS Fifty years without a gold-based monetary system is not only unprecedented in human history but unfriendly to economic prosperity, too. When President Nixon jettisoned the Bretton Woods gold-exchange standard on August 15, 1971, many thought it was |
Paul Krugman, New York Times Why you should ignore claims that we can't afford to reduce emissions. |
Walter Block, RCM Economics Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman compares Economics Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman with Economics Nobel Prize winner Paul Samuelson in an attempt to find out how free the free market can be. There is more wrong in Krugman's analysis than you can shake a stick at. Let me list at least some of the errors. (There are too many to be explored in this opinion piece; so I'll opine more extensively in my upcoming book. |
Tom Standage, Slate If we're approaching the golden age of the electric vehicle, it'll be the second time. |
Eric Grover, National Review Financial-market indicators point to a persistent uptick in inflation. |
Dan Mitchell, International Liberty I've written about some boring and arcane tax issues – most of which are only relevant because we don't have a simple and fair flat tax. Depreciation vs. expensing Territorial tax… |
Sidney Shapiro & Melissa Luttrell, The Hill The federal government must reform the opaque, biased method it uses to evaluate our nation's public health, economic and environmental protections. |
Henry Butler & Bernard Sharfman, RCM The tell: No specific recommendations on how Exxon should become a leader in profitable clean-energy production What does Engine No. 1's recent proxy fight at Exxon Mobil have in common with the insane trading in GameStop and AMC common stock that occurred during the pandemic? The answer is that they all garnered lots of media attention but accomplished nothing. |
James Picerno, The Capital Spectator Yesterday's July report on US consumer inflation suggested that the recent surge in pricing pressure may be peaking. That's also the message in revised data for CapitalSpectator.com's Inflation Trend Index (ITI). |
Collin Martin, Charles Schwab For yield-seeking investors willing to take additional risk, bank loans may be more attractive than high-yield bonds today. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Derek Horstmeyer, Enterprising Investor How do meme stocks move relative to stock market indices and other meme stocks? |
Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab The bull market in housing over the past year has been astonishing; but pandemic-induced effects are in the rearview, likely signaling some easing ahead. |
Kathy Jones & Christina Shaffer, CS Although the prospect of the Federal Reserve tapering its bond purchases has unsettled markets in the past, we expect it to be more orderly this time around. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Anthony Gill, Am. Institute for Economic Research "Politicians who benefit by pretending to ameliorate even the most minor complaints take action, regulate voluntary transactions, and affect how gains from trade can be distributed or even occur." ~ Anthony Gill |
Peter Coy, New York Times A new way to think about this oddity of the labor market. |
Nicholas Sargen, The Hill Having rejected two long-standing tenets about inflation, the Fed needs to articulate the macro framework it uses to assess inflation prospects. |
Tom Joyce, Washington Examiner Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wants to sneak a big tax break for the wealthy into a massive spending bill. |
Steven Malanga, City Journal Local municipalities fear the new state levy will lead to an income tax and hurt the economy. |
Nathan Vardi, Forbes Covid's Forgotten Hero: The Untold Story Of The Scientist Whose Breakthrough Made The Vaccines Possible |
Elayne Allen, Law & Liberty Elayne Allen reviews Erika Bachiochi's book, The Rights of Women. |
Andy Daga, USA TODAY It is vital that we not allow our expectations of the 3-minute gasoline fill-up to become the model for how we fuel electric vehicles. |
Charles Gasparino, New York Post SEC chief Gary Gensler has been copycatting Sen. Elizabeth Warren's crusade on Wall Street in his bid to be the Department of Treasury boss, Charles Gasparino writes. |
Julia Horowitz, CNN It's a tough moment to predict the future of the travel industry. Just look at Airbnb's stock. |
Eyal Press, New York Times Ethically compromising jobs, like material resources, are not distributed equally. |
Nancy Altman, Hill A robust expansion of Social Security benefits, funded by having millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share, is the best birthday present we could give the program — and ourselves. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Todd Wenning, Intrinsic Investing Companies are not static assets like gold or artwork, but in a state of constant change. Over a long enough timeline, the company you own today will be quite different from the one you originally bought. |
Edward Price, FT Alphaville Truth be told, it doesn't really matter who runs the Fed. Should that vex, consider this: if modern central banks are independent, why do they act as anything but? |
John Sullivan, 401K Specialist Trading apps make it easy to trade while intoxicated. |
Richard Hanania, Richard Hanania How tech changes the world |
Todd Buchholz, Project Syndicate In addition to helping millions of American households provide for their children, the monthly Child Tax Credit that went into effect in July represents a massive opportunity for businesses. As every investment banker knows, companies that can boast of reliable "recurring revenue" are worth more than those that cannot. |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar Rethinking 90-year-old regulations. |
David Merkel, The Aleph Blog Stocks are expensive. |
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