04/30/2020
Today Zachary Karabell, Time While the economy is contracting, the market is soaring. If you look closely at what's up and down, it actually makes senseâ?"for now. |
John Tamny, RealClearMarkets At present, more than a few are riddled by the near-term health of the stock market. They are because the economic news gets worse and worse. So why the somewhat ebullient stock market? The answer is... |
Robert Wright, Am. Institute for Economic Research Why isn’t anyone conducting experiments to better discern when certain socioeconomic activities can safely commence? |
Benjamin van Rooij, The Hill To stay the course, we must keep a united front in support of social distancing and resist the temptation to ease the current measures too soon. |
Lucian Pugliaresi, RCM As government officials consider relaxing the lockdown of the national economy, there remains concern among many in the population that the risks of dying from Covid-19 are too high and that... |
Paul Katzeff, Investor's Business Daily Are you saving enough for a comfortable retirement? Knowing how much to save for retirement is a key question in planning. Yet many people don't know how to figure out the right amount of retirement savings and don't even try, even though knowing is vital to their financial health. |
David Bahnsen, NR AOC and Elizabeth Warren are from the government and they want to help. |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments As the BEA stressed, Q1 GDP is mostly an educated guesstimate of COVID-19's impact, not an airtight calculation. |
Julia Horowitz, CNN The coronavirus pandemic has destroyed demand for gasoline and jet fuel as billions of people hunker down at home, and there's no guarantee it will ever fully recover despite rock-bottom prices. |
Mark Mills, City Journal Thoughts on fighting the next epidemic |
Michael Greve, USA Today Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s proposal to consider bankruptcy proceedings for states would encounter acute constitutional difficulties. Moreover, experience with municipal bankruptcies counsels against the proposal. |
Bruce Thompson, Washington Examiner You would never know it from the media, but the Treasury Department has been doing an excellent job rolling out millions of emergency relief payments and loans authorized by the CARES Act. Despite constant criticism, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his team at the Treasury deserve a great deal of credit for getting billions of dollars of stimulus payments and small-business loans out the door much faster than has ever been done in the past. |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Schwab There are many places to stash your cash, but the shorter your timeframe the more careful you need to be, says Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Steven Englander, Standard Chartered Bank |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Cole Smead, Smead Capital Management |
Solomon Teller, Green Harvest Asset Management |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Benjamin Powell, Orange County Register President Donald Trump and governors around the country are clashing over who has the authority to decide when and how to “reopen” the economy. Yet government officials can’t know how to plan that reopening for precisely the same reasons that they can’t know how to plan an economy that’s already open. |
Jenna Cao, The New York Times When the government is mostly just helping big business, the rest of us have to begin to find a new normal, as best as we can. |
Alan Ohnsman, Forbes Six weeks ago, with U.S. stock indices and Tesla shares plunging, the odds Musk would achieve the first tranche of his 12-part $55 billion compensation package looked slim. Things have changed. |
Ariel Nelson & Eric Dunn, The Hill Tenants must not face more harm after this rule ends. |
Edwin Schindler, New York Sun Blue State governors are up in arms about the prospects that the corona pandemic and their own mismanagement might force their states into bankruptcy. The political optics of their longstanding fiscal failures could be exposed, as well as their coddling of public-employee unions. They are going to have a hard time, though, arguing that there is a constitutional bar against Congress permitting states to declare bankruptcy. |
Beverly Harzog, U.S. News & World Report IF YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT protecting your credit score during the coronavirus pandemic, then you're in the right place. It isn't easy to maintain a good score while you're experiencing a reduction in hours or maybe even a job loss. |
Gerald Dwyer, American Institute for Economic Research The government lockdowns and stay-at-home orders are long on lists of things that are essential and not essential without defining or saying what determines whether something is essential or not essential. |
Pat Forde, Sports Illustrated There are many logistical challenges ahead, but change is finally coming to the NCAA over student-athletes' name image and likeness rights. |
Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media |
Travis Nix, Washington Examiner April 15 was supposed to be Tax Day for the millions of individuals and businesses who file income taxes, but it has been delayed until July 15 due to the coronavirus. Tax Day normally causes frustration for taxpayers as they spend their valuable time trying to figure out all the deductions they can take and how to minimize their tax burden. Many give up altogether and spend their hard-earned money on a tax preparer. |
Carl Van Horn, The Hill Federal funding is necessary, on a temporary basis, to keep people working so they can pay their rent, buy food, and stay in the labor force. |
Brandon Marshall & Abdullah Shihipar, New York Times Punitive responses will just burden those who have already been hit hard by the coronavirus. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Michelle Celarier, Institutional Investor The metamorphosis of former hedge fund manager and Epsilon Theory founder Ben Hunt. |
Adam Collins, Movement Capital True risk is an extended period of zero returns. |
Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund |
Susan Dziubinski, Morningstar These consumer names are undervalued according to our metrics. |
Rusty Guinn, Epsilon Theory In the last week or so, however, we have observed a surge in “how the world will be different” language across financial media. |
Jason Goepfert, SentimenTrader Market crash causes investors' leverage to plunge |
Robin Wigglesworth, Ozy Investors are "at the mercy of the gods" now that bonds are behaving like equities. |
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