10/26/2020
Today Ken Fisher, RealClearMarkets Cut, cut, hike! Potential tax changes boggle pundits’ minds as the election nears. President Trump’s supporters say his big promised tax cuts are just what we need for the economy and stock market—while his opponent’s proposed hikes would doom stocks. But, Joe Biden’s backers claim his tax and spending increases would fund an explosive market and economic fiscal surge—that Trump’s cuts insure Covid-catatonic economic stagnation. They all miss history—oodles of it—showing tax changes of all kinds hold scant sway over stocks. Here’s... |
Charles Gasparino, New York Post The prospect of Joe Biden becoming president has large swaths of corporate America scared. |
Steven Rattner, The New York Times Biden needs to counter the president's positive economic approval ratings with the facts. |
Charisse Jones, USA At Thursday night’s final debate between Donald Trump and former vice-president Joe Biden, Trump once again boasted he was the best president for Black Americans since Abraham Lincoln. But has the Trump administration actually made Black lives better? |
Andy Puzder, Fox After the presidential debate in Nashville, I'm unsure what Biden spent the whole week studying down there in his basement. |
Jeffrey Tucker, American Institute for Economic Research On February 28, the idea of locking down and smashing economies and human rights the world over was unthinkable to most of us but lustily imagined by intellectuals hoping to conduct a new social/political experiment. On that day, New York Times reporter Donald McNeil released a shocking article: To Take On the Coronavirus, Go Medieval on It. He was serious. Most all governments – with few exceptions like Sweden and the Dakotas in the US – did exactly that. The result has been shocking. I’ve previously called it the new totalitarianism. |
Steve Viscelli, Slate The future of self-driving trucks is being shaped by today's policy debates on safety, minimum wage, and truckers'â?"not trucks'â?"autonomy. |
Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch Equal-weight S&P 500 ETF plays no favorites |
William Baldwin, Forbes You can't assume that your bracket will go down in retirement. It could easily go the other way. |
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Suing Google for monopolistic behavior has bipartisan support, but Trump's involvement could ruin the government's case. |
John Tamny, Forbes High valuations ensure a future that in no way resembles the present. |
Andrew Wilford, RCM Since the onset of the pandemic, millions of Americans have switched to working from an office location to working from their own homes. For most of these Americans, this change represented just one more complication in a year that has been nothing if not complicated. But for the roughly 3.5 million Americanswho usually commute across state lines but are now working from home in compliance with public health recommendations, it can carry a substantial tax bite as well. Action from Congress is badly needed to protect taxpayers from the worst state impulses to relentlessly pursue... |
Kathy Jones, Charles Schwab Given current low yields, some investors wonder whether bonds can continue to provide diversification in a portfolio. Here's why those fears may be overblown. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Bret Swanson, American Enterprise Institute Surprisingly successful spectrum policy. |
Matthew Luzzetti, Deutsche Bank Group |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Art Carden, AIER Google may have become evil but it isn't a monopoly. |
J.C. Parets, All Star Charts EM stocks have been consolidating for 13 years. |
Kate Conger, The New York Times A group that also includes Lyft and DoorDash has spent nearly $200 million to support a California proposition that could save them from a new labor law. |
Lilly Smith, Fast Company And many cities aren't ready for the onslaught. |
Adam Hopkins, Vice There hasn't been a locally transmitted case of coronavirus in Taiwan since April. Here's what a post-COVID world might look like. |
Christine Benz, Morningstar Financial blogger and author Jim Dahle, also known as "The White Coat Investor," argues that investors do better when they don't overthink investment selection and asset allocation. |
Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch 'World Series Predictor' says American League favors Republicans, National League favors Democrats â?" if only the record proved it |
Nick Routley, Visual Capitalist At the turn of the century, the average U.S. home value was $126,000. Today, that figure is at a record high $259,000 – a 106% increase in just two decades. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Robert Pondiscio, City Journal In his "farewell" book, E. D. Hirsch, our foremost thinker on American schooling, sets his sights on fixing America itself. |
Jill Disis, CNN Business US President Donald Trump started a trade war with China to fix what he's repeatedly blasted as an unfair relationship between the world's two largest economies. |
Bryce Covert, Vox Independent bookstores are doing everything they can to stay in business: selling online, opening for limited hours, and doing virtual events. |
Annalisa Esposito, Morningstar Budgeting and thinking about your future self definitely could make you rich. |
Matt Taibbi, Substack Unprecedented efforts to squelch information about a New York Post story may prove to be more dangerous corruption than whatever Hunter Biden did with a crooked Ukrainian energy company |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense There are really only five things you can invest in and only one of them is money. |
Rusty Guinn, Epsilon Theory Nobody cares about the deficit. |
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