12/04/2020
Today Trish Regan, AC Six months ago, NBC News blasted this headline to its millions of readers: “Fact Check: Coronavirus vaccine could come this year, Trump says. Experts say he needs a ‘miracle’ to be right.” Yet the first coronavirus vaccine is expected to hit the market next week – December 2020. |
Lawrence McMillan, MarketWatch This is a positive seasonal period for the stock market |
Josh Rivera, USA Today Although I've written and edited stories about the stock market, I've never thought about being a player in it. To me, investing meant rich white men running around the NYSE floor yelling "buy...sell" for some unexplained reason. And until recently, my main financial goal, like that of many, was just staying afloat. But even as this year's fears and challenges mounted — the global pandemic, furloughs at my job, a big move — I was determined to establish a more robust rainy day fund and (if all went well) more income. |
Market Minder, FI The University of Michigan's Survey of Consumers continues showing partisan bias infects respondents' economic expectationsâ?"an error investors should try hard to avoid. |
Will Hild, RealClearMarkets “Merry Christmas!” I know that Zoom Thanksgiving wasn’t what you were hoping for, but I bet that turkey was still mighty tasty. Remember the good food and drink. Let it keep your belly warm and your thoughts merry. You’re going to need those good feelings to carry through this holiday season. |
Eric Levitz, New York WeWork, and the venture capitalists who enabled its rise, demonstrated that America doesn't need "big government" to have a small group of economic planners helping favored firms crush competitors on the strength of their connections. |
Jeffrey Snider, RCM When in November 2002 Ben Bernanke said all the Fed had to do was use this "printing press" thing to unlock some inflation, everyone just believed the man. No one would've dared disagree. For days, headlines blared approvingly over his confidence and brazenness. Confronted by a situation in which deflation was its ultimate danger, Bernanke wanted the world to know the Fed had the power, more importantly the will, to overcome any such challenge. Many people are now catching on how the circumstances, like the truth, are at the very least much more complicated. More than a decade of trying,... |
Paul Krugman, New York Times Why you should ignore the coming Republican deficit rants. |
Thomas Sowell, Townhall Walter Williams loved teaching. Unlike too many other teachers today, he made it a point never to impose his opinions on his students. Those who read his syndicated newspaper columns know that he expressed his opinions boldly and unequivocally there. But not in the classroom.Walter once said he hoped that, on the day he died, he would have taught a class that day. And that is just the way it was, when he died on Wednesday, December 2, 2020. |
Rob Williams, Charles Schwab Retiring earlier than you planned may not be your first choice, but you can take steps to shore up your portfolio to help achieve your retirement goals. |
Veronique de Rugy, National Review These victims are the products of this pandemic and our response, public and private, to it. |
Joel Mathis, The Week Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons. |
John Merrifield & Matthew McGehee, Inst for Objective Policy |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Schwab What are fractional shares? This week's Ask Carrie explains how they work and how they can make stock investing easier and more accessible. |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Financial Network |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Russell Redenbaugh & James Juliano, Kairos Capital Management |
Joshua Gottlieb & Avi Zenilman, University of Chicago |
Cooper Howard, Charles Schwab We expect the municipal bond market to return to a sense of normalcy in 2021. |
Katherine Mangu-Ward, Reason.com Fans of limited government have a lot to be happy about. It's much harder to go big when you are constantly at risk of being told to go home. |
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Project Syndicate Although the United States has survived four years of gross incompetence and pathological mendacity, it now faces the daunting task of achieving a sustainable post-pandemic recovery. Fortunately, no one is better equipped to deal with today's economic challenges than the next US treasury secretary. |
Robert Wright, AIER In the end, then, the hip hop group Public Enemy was actually the investing public’s friend; when it comes to ESG, “Don’t Believe the Hype” because investors “Can’t Truss It.” |
Milton Ezrati, City Journal To stimulate economic recovery, the Fed needs to get out of its own way. |
Francis Suarez & Eric Garcetti & Ankur Jain, CNN There's $45 billion tied up in security deposits. |
Shawn Langlois, MarketWatch The wealthy earn higher returns. |
Sigal Samuel, Vox The artificial intelligence system AlphaFold can help us understand diseases like Parkinson's and discover new drugs, including for future pandemics. |
Christine Benz, Morningstar These seven steps tackle a lot of jobs: refilling cash, rebalancing, tax planning, and charitable giving. |
Stephen Moore, The Hill The nation does not need one more unwise federal bailout. |
Nicole Gelinas, New York Post Blas is bent on ruining Midtown's Christmas. Did you really think 2020 couldn't get dumber? On Wednesday, Rockefeller Center will light its Christmas... |
Alexandra Sternlicht, Forbes Let Nike pay billions for superstars to rock the swoosh. Twenty-eight-year-old Ben Francis has become a near-billionaire by paying relative pennies to social media fitness fanatics to pump up his brand. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Ian Frisch, Esquire The inside story of a black sheep hedge fund, their massive bet that shopping malls would crash, and how they proved Wall Street wrong. |
Nick Maggiulli, Of Dollars & Data On personal finance experts and why getting rich in theory isn't the same as getting rich in practice. |
Ironman, Political Calculations Like the month that preceded it, November 2020 was a strong month for dividend paying stocks in the U.S. stock market. |
Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture The truth is that nobody knows what will come next year. |
James Picerno, The Capital Spectator The Treasury market’s inflation forecast broke above its pre-pandemic high this week, fueling speculation that a new era of firmer pricing pressure is dawning. |
Scott Sumner, The Money Illusion Inflation expectations have risen, Told ya so. |
Julie Segal, Institutional Investor There are plenty of investment opportunities to go around â?" yet investment professionals spend their time fighting over the limited alpha in tradable markets. Rishi Ganti and Orthogon Partners have a different idea. |
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