04/19/2021
Today Phil Harvey & Matthew Rees, RealClearMarkets This year marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture starting to implement its organic food rules. They allow companies to feature a "USDA Organic" seal on their packaging. This seal of approval has helped the U.S. organic food market expand from less than $8 billion in sales in 2000 to more than $50 billion in 2019. But as the market has grown, so have the falsehoods about organic food. It's useful to remember what the "organic" designation was - and was not - meant to be. The goal was simply to fortify trust in the fast-growing but fragmented organic food market. "Let... |
Kenny Torrella, Vox We're eating more meatless meat than ever, but it's still not much. |
Charles Gasparino, New York Post Hysteria, groupthink and a fair amount of hypocrisy are the key ingredients in a ruinous cocktail that has managed to intoxicate some formerly profit-focused boardrooms. One day, it's the Ad… |
Paul Sullivan, NYT The family behind the Nathan Cummings Foundation agreed four years ago to invest more of the endowment in social justice causes. In a new report, it discusses how difficult that was. |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments Q1 (and Q2) earnings may be great, but stocks are already looking beyond them. |
George Demos, The Hill I was on the SEC team that prosecuted Madoff — what lessons should we learn today? |
Andrew Wilford, RealClearMarkets The Biden Administration has cast its recent push for a global minimum corporate tax rate as a principled stand, an exercise in using multilateral agreements to coordinate a reshaping of the global corporate tax landscape. Ultimately, however, these appeals to a higher tax policy purpose are a load of bunk — the overriding goal is extracting as much money as possible. In announcing the United States' interest in establishing a global minimum corporate tax of 21 percent, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen described her intent to halt a "race to the bottom" in which countries had to compete with... |
Hayes Brown, MSNBC Return-free filing is possible. Let's make it happen. |
Indivar Dutta-Gupta, USAT Biden's plan would rein in corporate power and profit and launch a new era in which the wealthy finance large-scale investment for the public good. |
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Biden is being compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt, but the resemblance is complicated. |
John Tamny, Forbes Government spending is always and everywhere a consequence of economic growth, not an instigator of same. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Rob Williams, Charles Schwab How to turn retirement savings into retirement income. |
Jeffrey Kleintop, Charles Schwab The specific set of conditions that have historically characterized the start of an investment bubble appear to be forming. |
Ryan Detrick, LPL Financial Research Market Blog Wednesday, April 14, 2021 "I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life." George Burns |
Daniel Kern & Renee Kwok, TFC Financial Management |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Schwab Living paycheck to paycheck can feel like you're on an endless financial treadmill. Here's how to jump off. |
Robert J. Shiller, New York Times To understand where the stock market may be heading, a Nobel laureate examines the pop culture of one of the greatest bull markets in history. |
Gregory van Kipnis, AIER "There are other reasons for the Buffett Indicator ratio to be trending higher. Corporate earnings are growing nearly twice as rapidly as the growth in nominal GDP. The Buffett indicator, though at high historical levels, is not per se signaling that the market is overvalued." |
Alicia McElhaney, II The inside story of how Jim Vos and his team at Aksia helped unspool the mystery of Bernie Madoff. |
Katherine Revello, Reason Hawley's legislation would give officials more room to unilaterally punish business behaviors they personally don't like. |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar Drawing public lessons from a private fund's problems. |
Benjamin Pimentel, Protocol Gary Gensler is the new head of the SEC |
Paul Graham, Paul Graham.com If we compare the 100 richest people in 1982 to the 100 richest in 2020, we notice some big differences. |
Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture A massive shift is occurring in the labor market today, one that has been misinterpreted by economists of all stripes. |
Scott Sumner, Econlib This will be a very weird summer. |
Nate Berg, Fast Company A 27-year-old real estate agent is auctioning off an NFT that comes with an IRL duplex in Thousand Oaks, California. Why? |
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon If Bing Crosby were alive today he would have created an NFT of his song ‘Brother Can You Spare Me A Dime?‘ |
Michael Batnick, The Irrelevant Investor Things are always changing |
Sigal Samuel, Vox From backyard astronomy to birding, amateurs have been busy collecting data — and making real discoveries. |
Matt Taibbi, TK News by Matt Taibbi Gaetz, Greenwald, and accusations in the Twitter age |
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