12/16/2020
Today Tom McClintock, Washington Examiner Every American needs to see Angela Marsden's tearful video as she pours out her frustrations as a small restaurant owner in Los Angeles. Forced to curtail her business drastically during California's brutal shutdowns, she took out an $80,000 loan to meet all the expensive requirements to move her dining outside and salvage what was left of her life's work. Instead, authorities arbitrarily changed the rules and shut her down again â?" a death sentence for her ten-year-old restaurant. Meanwhile, the same authorities permitted a film production company to offer the very same outdoor dining... |
Paul Krugman, NYT A straight line runs from Reagan to the Trump dead-enders. |
Robert Bridge, American Consequences Governor Gavin Newsom has locked down California as though a tropical storm were about to make landfall. Yet the ‘safety' measures mostly target the ‘small guy,' and this hypocrisy could be the Democratic Party's undoing. Residents of America's largest state once took pride in the maxim that commanded "as goes California, so goes the country." Today those words sound more like a curse than the promise it once held. But it didn't have to be that way. |
Zachary Karabell, Time There will not be a robust American economy if half the country founders. Cities and states need help just like in any natural disaster. |
Brad Polumbo, FEE "The hospitalizations have continued to increase in New York City," Cuomo said. "We said that we would watch it if the stabilization, if the hospital rate didn't stabilize we would close indoor dining. It is now. We're gonna' close indoor dining in the city on Monday." |
Jonathan Lesser, The Hill The progressive arm of the Democratic Party will pillory Deese if he doesn't use his position to advance fanatical green goals. |
Peter Morici, Washington Times China poses the greatest challenge to American global leadership and liberty but judging by key appointments, President-elect Biden appears clueless to Beijing's strategies. |
Kristin Stoller, Forbes The year's seven most spectacular professional flameouts included a job-ending Zoom exposure and a resignation over racial discrimination. |
Sean Duffy, RCM Congress took a rare bi-partisan step four years ago when it passed legislation I authored to address Puerto Rico's two biggest needs: restructuring more than $70 billion in public debt and regaining access to the capital markets. Unfortunately, the roughly 3 million American citizens that call the island home remain in limbo due to the perpetual ineffectiveness of the territory's federally-appointed overseers. It is now incumbent upon President Donald Trump to install new and effective leadership. The widely-supported 2016 bill—known as PROMESA—provided for the creation of a... |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments Fixed income can still do its job. |
Jessica Menton, USA Today It's been a year of fear for many Americans: The worst global pandemic in a century has taken more than 300,000 lives, battered the U.S. economy and propelled the stock market into the fastest crash in history. But markets have since staged a stunning turnaround and reclaimed record highs, defying the doomsayers despite a backdrop of historic job losses, bankruptcies and shrinking corporate profits. The market was driven higher by Big Tech stocks as trillions of dollars in stimulus from the Federal Reserve and Congress propped up an economy gripped by recession. |
Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch Mark Hulbert analyzes the notion that "if Santa fails to call, bears may come to Broad & Wall." |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Russell Redenbaugh & James Juliano, Kairos Capital |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Michael Townsend, Charles Schwab Results will have a profound impact on the Biden administration's ability to move its policy agenda forward in the first two years. |
Dan Mitchell, International Liberty Back in 2015, just five years ago, it seemed like entitlement reform might happen. Republicans in the House and Senate voted for budgets based on much-needed changes to Medicare and Medicaid. That was only a symbolic step with Obama in the White House, to be sure, but the presumption was that actual reform would be? |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Joakim Book, American Institute for Economic Research |
Eduardo Porter, New York Times Millions face a steep and immediate drop in spending power when federal jobless benefits end this month, with a sharp rise in the poverty rate. |
Miranda Devine, New York Post Boeing, Qualcomm and Pfizer are just three US companies who have employed dozens of CCP members in their Chinese facilities, the database reveals. |
Matthew Walther, The Week Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons. |
Jared Schroeder, Hill Lawmakers against Section 230 know, in a fragmented, polarized networked environment, they don't have to be accurate. |
Brad Templeton, Forbes This morning, long-time stealth startup Zoox, a company founded by a radical Australian designer and a Stanford roboticist finally unveiled their new design that they feel is not merely the future of the car, but the thing that comes after the car. |
Paul La Monica, CNN A stock usually rises on good news. But some investors often bet a stock may be too pricey and won't live up to the hype -- only to be proven wrong. This year, Telsla, Beyond Meat and Stitch Fix have kept soaring after announcing something positive. |
Rep. James Comer, Washington Examiner When the COVID-19 pandemic officially began in March, lockdowns bought lawmakers and industry leaders time to respond proactively to a public health crisis. But now, after schools and job creators spent months stocking up on PPE and adjusting their operations to reopen safely, it appears that the first round of shutdowns was not enough for anti-business politicians. |
Steve Cuozzo, New York Post XXXX Morire di fame. That's "starve" in English â?" the message Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who often touts his Italian American family's at-home... |
Bill Frezza, FEE Government is always and everywhere so hateful in its results. |
Tim Wu, New York Times It wasn't legal when John D. Rockefeller did it, and it's still not legal. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Joel Kotkin, City Journal Anti-business policies are driving flagship firms out of California. |
Amy Whyte, Institutional Investor Fund managers are the most bullish they've been all year, according to Bank of America's monthly survey. |
Anne Helen Petersen, Vox Meet the hollow middle class, where the cost of living has risen, wages have not, and debt just keeps on accumulating. |
Eric Compton, Morningstar Large-cap strategies continue to underperform the market through 2020. |
George Livadas, Upslope Capital Management It's finally acceptable to use the B-word in public without getting dirty looks. In recent weeks, it's become obvious a bubble now exists in equity markets. Not a broad-based one , but a significant bubble nonetheless. |
Beth Skwarecki, Vitals Vaccine development takes time. Earlier this spring, we learned that the previous record for vaccine development was four years from sample to approval, and that we might not see a COVID vaccine for years, if at all. But here we are, barely one year past the discovery of the novel coronavirus, and we already have a vaccine authorized in the U.S. for emergency use, and several more emerging from phase 3 trials or already in emergency use in other countries. |
Rusty Guinn, Epsilon Theory A platform story. |
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