10/14/2020
Today Paul Brandus, MarketWatch A century's worth of election-year data suggests President Trump will win re-election |
Noah Kirsch, Forbes Anttonen's concern is curious for a man in the oil business. |
Don Boudreaux, AIER Since March, the coronavirus has been treated as if it is a danger categorically different from other dangers, including other viruses. But this treatment is deeply mistaken. The coronavirus is not a categorically different danger. It occupies a location on the same spectrum that features other viruses. Reasonable people can and do debate just where this location is – that is, how much more dangerous is the coronavirus than are ordinary flu viruses and other ‘novel’ viruses that plagued us in the past. But the coronavirus is well within the same category as other viruses. |
Paul London, The Hill The stranglehold that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) forces on the country needs to be broken. |
Karen Kerrigan, RCM October 14 marks an important day for proponents of free markets, competition, innovation and limited market intervention by the federal government: The Staggers Rail Act – signed into law by President Jimmy Carter – turns 40 years old. The Staggers Act partially deregulated privately owned freight railroads in terms of setting prices for services and setting rail rates, making decisions regarding what routes to use, and establishing shipper contracts, which allows freight railroads to make decisions based on market conditions. |
Andrew Rice, New York Magazine New York's Andrew Rice explores the future of real estate when the city's office buildings are empty. New York City's "permanent government" has always built its way out of crisis. But what if it can't? |
Dan Hannan, Washington Examiner My columns on Sweden's laissez-faire approach to the coronavirus always provoke an angry response. But it is striking that, the better Sweden does, the angrier its critics become. |
Steven Vogel, The Hill We are going to need a robust industrial policy to take on the big challenges that lie ahead. |
Marie Solis, The Nation Tim Hwang thinks we should burst the bubble of the ad-supported internet before it's too late. |
Gillian Friedman & Kellen Browning, NYT From Ford to Microsoft, white-collar companies are increasingly extending working from home through next summer. |
Joseph Sullivan, National Review The Biden campaign says only the rich will pay more under his tax plan. The evidence suggests otherwise. |
Paris Marx, MSNBC Amazon's 2020 Prime Day start amid Covid-19 offers great deals â?" but at what price? |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments Negative interest rates aren't a net benefit, in our view, but they aren't necessarily bearish, either. |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Financial Network |
Paul Hoffmeister, Camelot Portfolios |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Matthew Goldstein & Steve Eder & David Enrich, NYT Leon Black, whose $9 billion fortune could buy the best counsel in the world, paid at least $50 million to Mr. Epstein for advice and services after most others had deserted him. |
Peter Lane Taylor, Forbes COVID-19 has turned American housing upside down. Now that the first wave of the pandemic has moved through, these towns, cities, and regions are booming. Here's whyâ?Â"and howâ?Â"COVID's great migration is about to transform American real estate for a generation |
Nathan Bomey, USA Today This is more than just a bedtime story. Immersed in a work-from-home revolution, Americans are working from their beds, watching movies in the sack, spending more time at home and, consequently, deciding to upgrade their sleep setup. The upshot is that after years of turmoil caused by bankruptcies, store closures and intense competition, the mattress industry is suddenly flourishing during a pandemic that has reoriented people’s budgets. |
Ron Lieber, NYT United and Delta have been boasting to lenders about fat margins in frequent-flier mile programs. Time for customers to pay a bit more attention. |
Samuel Gregg, Law & Liberty As far as revolutions go, the world is still reeling from the publication of Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica on July 5, 1687. By identifying and offering proofs for an impressive number of calculations and three laws of motion that established the foundations of classical mechanics in physics, Newton provided a powerful means for unlocking and then quantifying nature’s secrets. Nothing would be spared the ramifications of Newton’s discoveries. |
Kerry Dolan, Forbes Inside Forbes' ranking of the country's most successful self-made women entrepreneurs and executives as measured by their net worths. |
Betsy McCaughey, NYS New York is heading into a financial abyss. On October 1, Moody’s downgraded New York City general obligation debt for the first time since the Dinkins era, and warns that more downgrades may be ahead. Meantime, the De Blasio administration announced October 3 that it was defaulting on a long scheduled $900 million deferred payout to current and former employees. Intervention by a court led to more obligations. |
Mark Mitchell, CNN Amazon's annual Prime Day sales event is slated for Tuesday and Wednesday and millions of shoppers will certainly flock to the site looking for deals. This year, the company is attempting to promote small business as a means to coax even more Americans to shop on its site. But Amazon doesn't need your patronage, the small business down the street does. |
Preston Caldwell, Morningstar We forecast a strong long-run U.S. recovery. |
Robert Wright, AIER Bankers did not wake up one morning all saying “we should make big, risky loans;” government regulators pushing an “everybody a homeowner” political agenda induced them, partly with a carrot and partly with a stick, to lend to every Tom, Dick, and Harriet who would sign their name to the dotted line. |
Brian J. O’Connor, The New York Times Low interest rates and paltry yields prompt money-market managers to waive fees and close funds. |
Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch Beating the market is tough, even for the best and brightest pros |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Scott Sumner, The Money Illusion China may not have won the trade war but the US definitely didn't. |
Amanda Cantrell, II Nathan Anderson's Hindenburg Research alleges that sustainable plastic company Loop Industries is "smoke and mirrors". |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar Judging by the cold data, as opposed to hot air. |
Diane Coyle, Project Syndicate Although the factors contributing to stagnant productivity are well known, economists and policymakers have so far paid little attention to figuring out how to address these problems in a coordinated way. But the need to deliver broad-based prosperity is more pressing than ever, and this shortcoming must be rectified without delay. |
Ben Carlson, AWOCS If you bought every company that lost money in 2019 that had a market cap over $1 billion, and so they’re about 261 of those and you bought every single one of those companies, you’ll be up 65 percent so far this year. |
Mebane Faber, Mebane Faber Research For many investors, this election is a nightmare. It feels a bit like taking your chances against, say, jumping in the ocean with a shark on one hand, or stumbling in the bush upon a lion on the other. Either way, the outcome appears inevitable. You're in trouble. |
Ed Yardeni, Dr. Ed's Blog "E pluribus unum" certainly doesn't apply to our highly partisan political discourse these days. |
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