04/24/2020
Today Paul Krugman, NYT Blocking federal aid is vile, but it's also hypocritical. |
William Shugart, RCM Earlier this month, Lawrence Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council and top Trump administration adviser, floated a proposal for selling COVID-19 U.S. Treasury bonds to "spur... |
Rep. Gil Cisneros, The Hill Small businesses employ nearly half of the United States workforce. When they're unable to pay their employees, families are out of work and unable to put food on the table or pay their bills. During this national crisis, everyone, including our big banks, needs to come together. |
John Tamny, RCM It came out earlier in the week that Harvard University would be availing itself of some of the so-called 'stimulus' money extracted by politicians from the private sector. Extracted is... |
Chris Baecker, Mises Inst. My oldest turned seventeen last month. To commemorate the occasion, she and I watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I'd taken her to her first (allegedly) rated-R movie a couple years ago to see the quite good Baby Driver, but this was Tarantino. |
Phillip Magness, American Institute for Economic Research |
Heather Mac Donald, American Greatness ore than a dozen governors extended their economic shutdown orders recently into May and beyond. Those officials should have publicly addressed the following questions first: How many coronavirus deaths do you expect to avert by the shut-down extension? What will your state's economy look like after another month of enforced stasis? How many workers will ? |
Zachary Karabell, Newsweek We used to be intimately familiar with death; today we are barely on speaking terms. But as our response to the COVID-10 pandemic shows, it's not because we've grown any more resilient. |
Claudia Sahm, New York Times As Congress fumbles, the Fed's unlimited ability to create money may be the only lifeline that communities have left. |
Jeffrey Snider, RealClearMarkets It was a pandemic, of sorts, a diseasing infestation that demanded the strictest economic curtailment. The consequences of the resulting quarantine and shutdown were extreme, so severe that they... |
Nick Marsh, OilPrice.com Sustainable investing has finally caught the attention of Big Finance, and in just a few short years, has already grown into a $30 trillion market |
Nigam Arora, MarketWatch The are many reasons for the stock market?s buoyancy â?Â" from incentives in the industry to retirement-account purchases to behavioral biases |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Collin Martin, Charles Schwab With the corporate default rate rising, investors may be wondering what they should do if their corporate bond issuer goes bankrupt. |
Binky Chadha, Deutsche Bank Group |
Jeffrey Buchbinder, LPL Financial |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Peter Hooper, Deutsche Bank Group |
Bill Gates, The Washington Post Before the United States and other countries can return to business and life as usual, we will need some innovative new tools that help us detect, treat and prevent COVID-19. |
Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker It is a portent of a more fragile global system according the Nassim Taleb. |
Bruce Jacobs, Knowledge@Wharton Cheap credit causes problems. |
Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund Some things never change. Our perception of them does. |
Victor Fung, Project Syndicate As world leaders work to revitalize multilateralism to confront the COVID-19 crisis, they must also reshape it in a way that recognizes and reflects the many dimensions of global interdependency. This means, first and foremost, ensuring an open and sustainable global trading system. |
Shawn Donnan, BusinessWeek The country has put its faith in statistics. But the numbers are failing it this time. |
Kevin Williamson, National Review There are a couple of good reasons for this. |
Matt Egan, CNN The boom-to-bust oil market is experiencing one of its darkest moments in history. |
Amanda Cantrell, Institutional Investor The Ayn Rand loving, former day-trader founder of Balyasny Asset Management just happens to be mastering markets in 2020. If he hadn't had a brutal 2018, he might not be. |
Randolph May, RealClearMarkets It's been nearly two hundred years since the 25-year old Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in America in May 1831 for his nine-month visit. Only 30 when he published the first part of his great... |
Katie Fry Hester & Jim Rosapepe, The Hill To be sure, our recovery will depend on multiple programs, working in concert with each other. Pay-share programs would help a large majority of essential businesses and other employers (those that are still open), many of which are teetering on the brink of closure from reduced sales. |
Jacki Deason, RealClearPolitics Ezekiel Emanuel, adviser to presidential candidate Joe Biden and Obamacare architect, just called for a 12-to-18-month lockdown to battle COVID-19, asking us to abandon our livelihoods, religious... |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Caroline Baum, MarketWatch An America that isolates itself from the world would be a poorer America |
Daniel Matamala, @ProMarket_org Why does “saving the economy” still seem like a euphemism for the benefit of some unscrupulous few? |
Michael Batnick, The Irrelevant Investor The winners are being separated from the losers. |
Maxwell Strachan, Vice Many experts want the WFH workforce to stay put until a vaccine is approved. If you do head back, expect indoor masks, staggered schedules, small meetings, and the death of open-office plans. |
James Picerno, The Capital Spectator Will the traditional asset allocation model continue to provide acceptable returns? |
Stephen Clapham, Behind The Balance Sheet Thoughts on issues we may have to think about when investing post crisis. |
Stan Matwin, Project Syndicate It has now become clear that the only way to protect public health and restart the economy is gradually, through widespread tracking and tracing. But to make such systems palatable in the world's democracies, regulatory and technological hurdles will need to be cleared. |
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