10/08/2020 Today
Michael Barone, Washington Examiner In between Donald Trump's exit from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the vice-presidential debate, let's turn to an apolitical analyst to understand what's happening. Vaclav Smil, 76, native of communist Czechoslovakia, University of Manitoba professor for four decades, has written 39 books on energy, technology, and demography. "Nobody," says Bill Gates, who has read every one, "sees the big picture with as wide an aperture as Vaclav Smil." |
Jenin Younes, American Institute for Economic Research Early this week, three of the world’s top epidemiologists published the Great Barrington Declaration, a short treatise that advocates a controversial approach to managing the coronavirus pandemic. Professors Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University, and Martin Kulldorff of Harvard University argue that societies across the globe should reopen immediately and completely. Instead of observing measures designed to slow the spread of the virus, the young and healthy should resume normal activity in order to incur herd immunity and thereby... |
Rich Karlgaard & Jamie Montgomery, Forbes How A Software Unicorn Scales Up â?Â" Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader Explains Why Relentless Growth Is Necessary In Cloud Software, and How a College Tragedy Honed His Focus. |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments Yield isn't the only way to get cash flow from an investment portfolio. |
Lawrence Cunningham, MarketWatch Stock splits degrade a company?s shareholder quality, so these 5 companies avoid them |
Orrin Hatch, Washington Times In October, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Google v. Oracle. This case, which is 10 years in the making, marks the first time the high court will address the copyright protections afforded to computer software since Lotus v. Borland in 1996. |
Maurie Backman, Motley Fool Estimating your retirement expenses ahead of time isn't always the easiest thing to do. Until you're actually in retirement, you may not realize how much you'll ultimately spend on things like transportation, entertainment, and healthcare. But one thing's for sure: If you hope to live comfortably as a senior, you should plan on spending at least 70% of what your expenses amounted to during your working years. And to pull that off, you'll need a healthy level of income. |
John Tamny, RCM Entrepreneurs open up shop with dreams of profoundly changing how consumers do things. Yes, monopoly profits are their goal. Thank goodness they’re the goal. They’re trying to win our business by virtue of making our lives so much easier and/or better that we cease patronizing their competitors. Really, what’s the point of going into business unless it’s to achieve market dominance? How obnoxious for a wannabe entrepreneur to hog precious capital if the goal is mediocrity. How is that helping consumers? Think about it. |
Matt Phillips, The New York Times Investors are warming to the possibility of a "blue wave" as Joseph R. Biden Jr. rises in the polls and the chances of a contested election diminish. |
Jim Newell & Jordan Weissmann, Slate Let's begin by appreciating just what an utter disaster this could be for the country. |
Jonathan Ingram, RCM America’s economy is coming in hot, and it is vital that Congress not ruin this rebound with legislation that could leave millions of Americans permanently unemployed. Some Democrats in Washington are working to do just that. As new original research by the Foundation for Government Accountability highlights, the signs are all there: Unemployment claims are plummeting, jobs are coming back, and entrepreneurs are creating more new businesses than ever before. More than 1.7 million new businesses have formed since June alone. These markers for a recovering economy should be welcome news... |
Matt Petersen, The Hill California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's recent executive order on zero emission cars and trucks is the bold action required to tackle the climate crisis and to protect vulnerable communities that are disproportionately impacted by pollution. |
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Bernard Sharfman, Oxford Law |
Solomon Teller, Green Harvest Asset Management |
John Holt, Applied Finance This is a follow up piece to a recent article focusing on large cap stocks. This commentary will instead look at small cap value/growth relative attractiveness, as well as compare large and small caps. The [...more] |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Lakshman Achuthan, CNN Business Understanding where we stand in the economic cycle offers valuable context for what otherwise seems irreconcilable, particularly with respect to two key economic metrics: GDP and employment. |
Dave Sekera, Morningstar As Election Day nears and the coronavirus vaccine trials continue, headlines may lead to volatility, but we expect economic rebound to keep on. |
Editors, The Christian Science Monitor Applications for new businesses are way up in the U.S., a sign of creative and courageous entrepreneurship that defies the social isolation and gloom. |
Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press In a worrisome trend, a rising proportion of job losses appear to be permanently gone. |
Raghuram Rajan, Project Syndicate For all the excitement about corporate "stakeholders" and "purpose-driven" firms, the new mode of capitalism is simply a repackaging of the old. Successful companies will continue to focus on the value of their shares over the long term, while avoiding the risks of wading into areas where they don't belong. |
C. J. Hughes, NYT As the hospitality industry grapples with a severe downturn, owners are turning hotels into offices, schools, emergency housing, wedding halls or homeless shelters. |
Dennis Friedman, HumbleDollar We saved our whole life to get where we are. We aren’t irresponsible spenders aiming to die penniless, but we’re going to make sure we enjoy the rest of our life as best we can. If that means spending down our retirement savings, so be it. |
Gilad Edelman, Wired The scariest thing about microtargeted ads is that they just don’t work. |
Adriana Kugler, Hill Americans who are out of work need critical federal benefits. |
Nicole Gelinas, New York Post Last week, the Moody's agency slashed the credit rating on NYC's debt. Just like with your credit score, the lower it goes, the higher an interest rate the city pays. |
Howard Gold, MarketWatch In come cases, two can do a lot better than one |
Justin Spittler, RiskHedge Today I'm going to show you a trading tactic so simple, yet so reliable, it'll allow you to predict when certain stocks will skyrocket days or even weeks in advance. |
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Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Zachary Crockett, The Hustle The pandemic has boosted interest in vending machine ownership. But just how lucrative is the business? We spoke to 20+ operators to find out. |
Terry Nguyen, Vox Some businesses in former tourist hotspots like Anaheim are struggling, but others are seeing a boom in visitors. |
Nick Maggiulli, Of Dollars & Data On how you can use tax loss harvesting to save money every year. |
John Tierney, City Journal The lockdowns must end. |
Steve Wendel, Morningstar When life is most disrupted, we have an opportunity to plan for future normalcy. |
Bill Emmott, Project Syndicate If Japan's new prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, wants to emerge from the shadow cast by his predecessor, he will need to devise a compelling message to define his agenda. He could do worse than to focus on the country's labor market, which has long squandered the potential of a highly educated workforce. |
Shawn Langlois, MarketWatch Apparently, for some earning $400,000 a year, the struggle is real. | |
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