05/18/2020
Today Lionel Shriver, Spectator Should our future permit an occupation so frivolous, historians years from now will make a big mistake if they blame the nauseating plummet of global GDP in 2020 directly on a novel coronavirus. After all â?" forgive the repetition, but certain figures bear revisiting â?" Covid's roughly 290,000 deaths ... |
Michael Hiltzik, LAT The U.S. is suffering shutdown fatigue because the COVID-19 war has stagnated. |
Stephen Davies, American Institute for Economic Research |
Christian Schneider, USA Today |
John Tamny, RCM "Yeah, and there's 6 billion things left to name." Those are the words of Peter Griffin in a Biblical era Family Guy episode which unspooled recently on the Fox Network. The episode... |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments Delving into a counterproductive but mostly inconsequential monetary policy. |
Hanna Ziady, CNN Dividend payouts could tumble by nearly $500 billion this year, a steeper drop than during the global financial crisis, as the worst global recession in decades is forcing companies to preserve cash. |
Howard Gold, MarketWatch The chairman of Berkshire Hathaway seems to prefer the S&P 500 to his own company?s stock |
Bernard Sharfman, RealClearMarkets The more times I read Larry Fink's (CEO of BlackRock) most recent letter to CEOs, A Fundamental Reshaping of Finance, the more concerned I become. As I now understand the letter, BlackRock... |
Binyamin Appelbaum, New York Times Our housing crisis is a symptom of America's wealth â?" and its indifference. |
Tania Tetlow, The Hill I worry that we have lost sight of the fact higher education is the fundamental infrastructure of the American economy. |
Dena Jones, The Examiner With the COVID-19 outbreak shutting down, at least temporarily, an estimated 20 major slaughterhouses and processing plants in North America, millions of farm animals are left in limbo with nowhere to go. |
Jerry Bowyer, Vident Financial |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Financial Network |
Jerry Bowyer, Vident Financial |
John Holt, Applied Finance Over the past 25 years, Applied Finance has studied market patterns and trends using millions of Valuations. The firm's live database goes back to 1998, with further data starting from the early 1990's. The two [...more] |
Rob Williams, Charles Schwab Important distinctions exist between traditional and Roth IRAs, including eligibility and contribution limits. Here's a guide to help you decide what's best for you. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Ray Dalio, CNN Business We need to reform capitalism, but certainly not abandon it, writes Ray Dalio, the founder, co-chief investment officer and co-chairman of Bridgewater Associates. |
Howard Gold, MarketWatch The chairman of Berkshire Hathaway seems to prefer the S&P 500 to his own company?s stock |
Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker The disaster has become so dire so quickly owing, in part, to the legacy of the 2008 financial crisis. |
Lawrence Summers, Financial Times The pandemic will be remembered alongside 1914 Archduke assassination and 1938 Munich Conference |
Jose Antonio Gonzalez Anaya, Project Syndicate It is impossible to say what will happen to oil prices as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and global recession. But there are signs that, though demand will take time to recover, supply may be adjusted faster than during past crises. |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar How to do something different, without doing something bad? |
Theodore Schleifer, Vox What a viral headline about Jeff Bezos becoming a trillionaire gets right and wrong |
Howard Lindzon, HL The first half of 2020 had been a great century of investing. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
John Cassidy, The New Yorker On Thursday, E-Trade, the discount brokerage, reported that its daily trading volume in April was more than three times as large as it was in April, 2019. Other discount brokers have reported similar figures. TD Ameritrade said that it did more than three million trades a day in April, compared with eight hundred and seventeen thousand a year earlier. |
Sebastian Canderle, Enterprising Investor Thanks to the mass-adoption of cov-lite structures, the manipulation of corporate earnings and government-led bailouts, private capital firms have substituted creative destruction with a more insidious process: endemic sclerosis. |
John Gruber, Daring Fireball A Washington Post story today on Apple and Google’s joint effort on COVID-19 exposure notification project, from reporters Reed Albergotti and Drew Harwell, is the worst story I’ve seen in the Post in memory. It’s so atrociously bad — factually wrong and one-sided in opinion — that it should be retracted. |
Billy Binion, Reason.com Staying inside forever and going back to normal today aren't the only choices. |
Claire Jones, FT Alphaville The lockdown dilemma is not quite as binary as is often made out. |
Cameron Kir, Which Car The Cannonball Run record was beaten seven times in five weeks |
Ben Hunt, Epsilon Theory A truth that’s told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent. William Blake (1757 – 1827) |
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