10/28/2021
Today
Aswath Damodaran, City Journal Congress has an amazing capacity to write bad tax legislation, but this proposal sets a new standard. |
Jordan Weissmann, Slate Somewhere, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos say "phew." |
John Tamny, RealClearMarkets In Amazon's first twenty years as a public company, its stock went on a wild ride. During seventeen of those twenty years, Amazon's shares corrected downward to the tune of 20% at least once a year. Please think about the volatility of Amazon in concert with the recent wealth-tax proposal rolled out by Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, but that is really the brainchild of Bernie Sanders and our 46th president, Joe Biden. Wyden, Sanders and Biden would like to see billionaire wealth annually taxed at the long-term capital gains rate of 20%. This tax would fall on unrealized capital gains. Please stop and... |
Samuel Gregg, Law & Liberty Samuel Gregg proposes to reform central banks by looking at Germany's Ordo-Liberalism as a model to prevent political interference. |
Matt Sandgren, The Hill Will Washington's leaders stifle that spirit to the detriment of our economy and our reputation as a global leader in innovation? Or will they nourish that spirit to usher in the next chapter of the digital revolution? |
Reuven Brenner, RCM Suppose some 1 million people are expected to come through the Southern border for a year. It costs $30K per year, on average, to incarcerate individuals, and it may cost that amount to take care of each illegal immigrant per year - until their status settled, kids offered schooling, health care, and until some find a job. For those not employed, there would be years of welfare, education and health-related costs etc. as there is no evidence that these migrants are technicians, engineers or scientists, or people expected to have high compensations. |
Kim Iskyan, AC Deft investing is not just about diversification of your portfolio but your banking as well – here's how to onboard offshore banking. |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments And we celebrate with two timeless lessons. |
Anna Wiener, New Yorker The billionaire venture capitalist has fans and followers. What are they looking for? |
Jim Parrott & Mark Zandi, CNN The nation faces a dramatic housing shortage, sending home prices and rents through the roof all over the country. The spike in housing costs is making it harder for some to buy their first home and for others to afford their rent, increasing demand for subsidized housing and widening the wealth gap between renters and homeowners. It is also forcing more families to live farther from jobs, increasing commute times, undermining labor force participation and slowing economic growth. |
Jerusalem Demsas, Vox Build Back Better doesn't build enough. |
Farhad Manjoo, New York Times Lawmakers should proceed cautiously when altering the rules governing the internet. |
Asset Allocation Team, GMO Bubbles inflict deep and cruel wounds that can last for decades, which is why we believe it is prudent to avoid them, exploit them, or dance around them as best we can. |
Jerry Bowyer, Vident Financial Let's zoom in and look at some indices during periods of high and low inflation. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Lee Bohl, Charles Schwab Find out why you should have a trade plan—and the five elements that may help you put it to work successfully. |
Jerry Bowyer, Vident Financial High inflation doesn't just raise prices; it raises an important question for investors: Which investments historically tend to do relatively well during periods of elevated inflation? |
Laura Greaver, AC Stansberry's financial experts' take-home investing insight rings contrary to most Vegas gamblers: put your money on the table and walk away. |
Clare Duffy, CNN Facebook has confronted whistleblowers, PR firestorms and Congressional inquiries in recent years. But now it faces a combination of all three at once in what could be the most intense and wide-ranging crisis in the company's 17-year history. |
Nicole Narea, Vox The US has more jobs than it can fill. Fixing the immigration system could boost the economy. |
Gene Marks, The Hill Businesses don't like to talk about how they're eliminating employees with automation. But it's happening. |
Chris Edwards, Cato In their haste to pass massive spending bills and clobber the rich, the Democrats are floating some radical tax schemes. The latest far‐out idea is to tax capital gains even before gains are realized. No other country in the OECD taxes capital gains in such an aggressive manner. |
Bill McKibben, NYT The divestment campaign has taken much of the shine off what was once the planet's dominant industry. |
Jules Kortenhorst, Project Syndicate For decades, spectacularly inaccurate forecasts have underestimated the potential of clean energy, buying time for the fossil-fuel industry. But as two new analyses from authoritative institutions show, renewables have already convinced the market and are now poised for exponential growth. |
Editorial, I & I We're not sure there's a bigger lie out there than the one that says renewable energy is the path to a cleaner environment. |
Shirin Ghaffary, Vox Facebook's numbers are doing fine for now — but not its reputation. |
Jay Caspian Kang, New York Times What does it mean now that cryptocurrency has joined proper society? |
Lewis Uhler & Joseph Yocca, I&I Biden's combination of higher unemployment and inflation is reminiscent of 1970s-era 'malaise.' |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Tsvetana Paraskova, OilPrice.com Oil companies are under increasing pressure to curb production, but stopping supply will only aggravate the energy problems facing the world today and drive oil prices higher |
Robin Powell, TEBI Some economists are warning that we're heading for 1970s-style "stagflation" — a combination of economic stagnation and rising living costs. Are they right? |
Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette Lawrence Katz answers questions about the historic wave of workers quitting their jobs during the pandemic. |
John Hempton, Bronte Capital A finance student tried to pitch me on a short idea to get an internship. |
Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund There are two ways to measure how you're doing: Against yourself and against others. Internal vs. external benchmarks. |
Susan Dziubinski, Morningstar These are the most overpriced stocks in our coverage universe today. |
John Stossel, Reason The idea that massive government spending, hate speech laws, and gun control will improve America—when they failed horribly elsewhere—is a dangerous myth. |
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