06/23/2020
Today Allison Schrager, CJ Frustrated sports gamblers may have jumped into the stock market, but it's unlikely that they are responsible for its volatility. |
Ken Fisher, RCM Legendary 19th century financier JP Morgan said, "A man generally has two good reasons for doing a thing?one that sounds good, and a real one." Pundits cite loads of seemingly smart... |
Andrea Riquier, MarketWatch 'I don't think there is anybody who devotes a life to... the stock market who doesn't have something of a gambling instinct' |
Benjamin Zycher, RCM In a recent Statement distributed to the membership of the American Economic Association, the Executive Committee led by AEA President Janet Yellen condemned killings of black people by... |
Rich Karlgaard, Forbes The global economic stakes around the 5G wireless rollout could not be greater. Forbes editor-at-large and futurist, Rich Karlgaard, talked to Cristiano Amon, the president of 5G global leader, Qualcomm, about revolutionary potential of 5G but also the peril of falling behind in the wireless wars. |
Alex Hendrie, Examiner The Trump administration recently announced a new deregulation proposal to allow individuals to use their 401(k)s and IRAs to invest in private equity funds. This proposal, released by the Department of Labor, is a huge win for millions of American middle-class families and will provide them with another option to invest and grow their retirement savings. |
Vivian Ho, The Hill America's state and local public health offices are starved for resources. |
Walter Block, RCM The jury is still out on whether their policy was better than ours. But we need different "laboratories" trying different techniques if we are to maximize our chances of quelling this... |
Jordan Weissmann, Slate By some measures, livelihoods actually improved when the economy locked down. It's up to Congress to keep them that way. |
David McCabe, New York Times Some cities and states are looking toward a simple solution to mass unemployment: Hire workers directly. |
Christoph Gisiger, themarket Anne Stevenson-Yang, Co-founder and Research Director of J Capital, is skeptical about a rapid recovery of the Chinese economy. She spots serious problems in the labor market and in the real estate sector. She also warns of fraud at the investor?s darlings Alibaba and Tencent. |
Jerry Bowyer, Vident Financial |
Allison Schrager, Manhattan Institute |
Wayne Crews, Competitive Enterprise Institute I remembered wondering in 2017 whether the federal government would be larger or smaller after four years of Trump. The debt has now topped $25 trillion and the deficit alone will top $4 trillion, a figure that, incredibly, is higher than all federal outlays as recently as 2015. In the meantime, President Trump can and should use a meataxe on regulation unilaterally. |
Jerry Bowyer, Vident Financial |
Jerry Bowyer, Vident Financial |
Michael Keane, SSRN Many academics are advocating for the strict adherence to randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in order to find treatments for CoViD-19. The prevailing orthodoxy |
Kishore Mahbubani, MW Some countries will try to go it alone, but free trade and open economies are the sure path to growth |
David Clement & Anthony Bellotti, Washington Examiner The federal government's approval process for medicines, treatments, and vaccines is broken, and red tape at the Food and Drug Administration is to blame. |
Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes Investors aren't paying "nearly enough attention to the enormous permanent damage" caused by coronavirus. |
James Bovard, American Institute for Economic Research |
Christy Bieber, Motley Fool COVID-19 has caused a record number of jobless claims, led the U.S. into a recession, and left millions of Americans coping with reduced hours. But the effects of the coronavirus aren't hitting everyone equally. Not only are older workers more likely to face health risks as morbidity rates rise with age but they're also experiencing more severe economic consequences because of it. |
Clare Duffy, CNN First came public statements against racism and in support of Black Lives Matter from a wide range of companies. Then came large corporate donations to organizations promoting racial equity. |
Joshua Brockman, NYT Savers who want to build their nest eggs without relying solely on the stock market have other options. The pandemic is testing their skills. |
Dinesh D'Souza, NYP Bottom line: The Left keeps telling us it wants to take us to Stockholm, but its policies point in the direction of Caracas. |
Caroline Baum, MarketWatch It's going to take many years of digging to get GDP back to its pre-pandemic level |
Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch Percentage of stock U.S. households own determines the market's 10-year return |
Buttonwood, The Economist Speculation is as old as the hills, but you can count on some variations |
Christian Britschgi, Reason.com Falling demand and strict social distancing requirements are leaving many restaurants with no path to profitability. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Matt Taibbi, Matt Taibbi A flurry of newsroom revolts has transformed the American press |
Amanda Cantrell, Institutional Investor During the height of the market chaos, trend-following strategies lived up to their billing of outperforming during downturns with some interesting caveats. |
Hanna Ziady, CNN Business US whiskey distillers have lost out on nearly $340 million in sales to the European Union over the past two years because of a tit-for-tat trade spat between Washington and Brussels. |
Sara Morrison, Vox The company's new operating systems want you to know and control who's watching you online. |
Nicolas Rabener, Enterprising Investor Fixed-Income Kryptonite |
Vitaliy Katsenelson, Contrarian Edge Since the Fed is buying, the music is playing, and investors keep dancing (speculating). Greed is back. It seems that this music just keeps on playing. But will it? |
Scott Sumner, The Money Illusion Inflation or socialism. It seems we've chosen socialism. |
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