10/13/2021
Today
Emily Stewart, Vox America's upper-middle class works more, optimizes their kids, and is miserable. |
Jon Coupal, Pasadena Star News Both Presidents Kennedy and Reagan repeated the saying that "a rising tide lifts all boats" to describe how a vibrant, free market economy benefits all citizens. |
Mark Dittli, The Market Beijing-based economist Michael Pettis sees the looming collapse of real estate developer Evergrande as a signal that China needs to fundamentally shift away from its investment-based growth model. |
Jonathan Russo, Worth Contributor Jonathan Russo recently set sail on the ship for its christening. Here's what travelers can expect. |
Steve Forbes, What's Ahead Government pension funds are in bad shape, and taxpayers could take the hit to make good on the financial shortfalls. Could your taxes be going up? Steve For... |
Mark Zandi, CNN Since political optics will prevent lawmakers from ever getting rid of the debt limit, which is what they should've done decades ago, they should instead neuter it by doing away with the Senate's filibuster rule for it. |
Christopher Baecker, RealClearMarkets For just the second time, I sold a home last month. It's a good time to be on this side of the transaction, but I do have misgivings. I've always wondered if tax, regulatory and legal compliance professionals, as well as some investors, feel the same since they depend on government activism and largesse to make a living. |
Thomas Hoenig & Brian Knight, Hill Those who care about the increasingly tight relationship between banks and the government should oppose this proposal. |
Steven Rattner, New York Times Sometimes true costs are hidden by backloading them. |
Market Minder, Fisher Friendly reminder: Jobs won't tell you much about the recovery's direction or policymakers' decisions. |
Douglas Seaton, RCM The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act has attracted very little attention and even less scrutiny despite its authors' aim to fundamentally alter the American workplace by giving unions and government appointees unprecedented power over employers and employees, in many cases whether the employees want a union or not. Recent union defeats, like the failed attempt to organize an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, last spring, demonstrate how unnecessary and unwelcome unions are in most workplaces around the country. Employees everywhere have concluded they have a better... |
Toby Young, Brownstone Institute This is a pretty feeble report that seems to have been written with an eye on getting Jeremy Hunt and Greg Clark – the chairs of the two select committees involved – on the BBC news rather than making a serious contribution to understanding what the Government got right and what it got wrong over the past 18 months. |
David Heacock, FilterBuy.com Income inequality has been a major social, political, and economic issue since the Great Recession, and the uneven effects of the COVID-19 economy has only made the gaps between America's haves and have-nots even starker. These divergent economic fortunes will continue to have a major effect on housing in the U.S. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Hayden Adams, Charles Schwab The IRS allows taxpayers various tax deductions for investment-related expenses if those expenses are related to producing taxable investment income. Do your expenses qualify? |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab September's end brought some key winning streaks to an end courtesy of elevated risks associated with myriad economic, inflation and policy related uncertainties. |
Ron Paul,American Consequences After thousands of canceled trips, it appears vaccine mandates don't fly with the pilots' union at Southwest Airlines. |
Paul Krugman, New York Times A well-deserved Nobel reminds us why facts seem to have a liberal bias. |
Kenneth Kalczuk, AIER "Omarova is right to point out the deficiencies in central banking. Nonetheless, ending traditional banking to fix central banking would be like closing schools to improve student retention. There are easier ways forward." ~ Kenneth Kalczuk |
Michael Cohen, MSNBC.com Facebook has become for millions of people their primary tool for interacting with the world. |
Dylan Scott, Vox Why this winter should be better than the last one. |
Editorial, Issues & Insights One route to the truth would be a federal grand jury probe to determine if case and death counts have been inflated and are not reflective of reality |
Quin Hillyer, Washington Examiner MOBILE, Ala. — The Federal Reserve could become a threat both to liberty and to the economy it is supposed to safeguard. |
Jordan Wicker, The Hill Many young people seek ways to afford postsecondary opportunities to acquire practical training, certification or a professional degree. |
Editorial, NYS Now that Congress has kicked the debt ceiling down the road a few months, what of the idea of minting a $1 trillion coin made of platinum? Supposedly our leaders would smelt this trillion dollar slug from a bit of platinum and deposit it at the |
Dylan Matthews, Vox Let us now praise Beowulf, perhaps the most influential blog commenter of all time. |
Paul Brown, New York Times You don't need a lot of mutual funds or exchange-traded funds to build a solid portfolio. |
Dan Alexander, Forbes Trump's fortune plunged at the outset of the pandemic, but unlike the overall stock market, his real estate empire hasn't come roaring back. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Jamie Powell, FT Alphaville This paper says yes. |
Tom Lauricella, MStar While rates matter to technology stock valuations, they haven't been driving performance. |
Michael Farren, Reason Is the problem government cash or have we entered a new paradigm? |
Robert Bradley Jr, Master Resource The present UK/EU energy crises, expected to head into the winter, have much to do with forced energy transformation from coal/natural gas to wind/solar. After looking the other way, the mainstream media now recognizes the problem but is offering excuses. |
Larry Swedroe, The Evidence-Based Investor Small value stocks have underperformed large growth stocks over the last ten years, leading some to conclude that value investing is dead. Are they right? |
Charlie Bilello, Compound Advisors Where should interest rates be? Not 0%. |
Jamie Catherwood, Investor Amnesia Throughout history, states and sovereign entities have utilized debt as a mechanism for control and influence, wielding the financial instrument like another weapon in their arsenal. |
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