07/10/2020
Today Ken Fisher, RCM How can you gain an investing edge? That timeless question has confounded investors almost forever. Many fixate on data, thinking quick data access mines magical statistical relationships.... |
Vasant Dhar, MarketWatch Here's why you should stay away from 'free' digital trading platforms |
Justin Danhof, RCM Liberals used to abhor "big business," railed against monopolistic markets, and complained about allegedly rigged votes. But now that big business regularly supports liberal causes and a... |
Marc Morial & Janet Murguia, The Hill The worsening economic outlook will, unfortunately, lead to even higher unemployment, lower wages, and significantly less income for working families nationwide. |
Rainer Zitelmann, The Examiner Over the last 100 years, the world has seen more than two dozen socialist experiments. It has failed in every country every time it has been tried: in the Soviet Union they implemented one form of socialism, in Yugoslavia another; Chinese socialism differed from the socialism of North Korea; Venezuelan socialism was not the same as Cuban socialism â?" but every single one of these experiments failed. In response to this catalog of failures, socialists complain, "The idea was right, it was just never properly executed!" |
Jeffrey Snider, RealClearMarkets Each time it was tried, they were rushed. Revolutionary leadership may be many things, but one thing they haven’t been historically is patient. There’s a whole lot of “seizing” to go along with radicals; the day, the opportunity, the situation. Whether or not any of those are truly ripe becomes an afterthought; tear everything down first and then sort out its mess in the aftermath. Bolshevik or Menshevik? Modern history’s great irony is that the Bolshevik name is derived from the Russian word for majority (большинство). The truth is they never had... |
Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times Why do American cities waste so much space on cars? |
Maurie Backman, Motley Fool Social Security is an important income source for the millions of seniors who collect benefits during retirement, and while there's nothing wrong with factoring those benefits into your long-term financial plans, you shouldn't make the mistake of thinking those benefits alone will be enough to get you through your golden years. Here's why. |
Justin Davidson, New York Magazine In the COVID-19 Epidemic, Theaters and Malls Are Empty. Fill Them With Spread-Out Classroom Desks When School Reopens. |
Editors, Issues & Insights There are plenty of organizations that help minorities succeed in this country but aren't bent on turning the U.S. into a socialist hellhole. |
Brad Polumbo, Foundation for Economic Education |
Damon Linker, 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. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Michael Townsend, Charles Schwab Here's what we're keeping an eye on in the weeks ahead. |
Mickey Levy, Manhattan Institute |
Turner & Walker & Moore, PERC |
Jerry Bowyer, Vident Financial |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Schwab If you've lost your job, Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz offers a step-by-step approach to taking advantage of all your available resources. |
Ryan Detrick, LPL Financial Research Market Blog What a quarter the second quarter was, with the S&P 500 Index adding 20.0%, for the best quarter since 1998 and the best second quarter since 1938. Of course, stocks fell 20% in the? |
Robert J. Shiller, Project Syndicate The worse economic fundamentals and forecasts become, the more mysterious stock-market outcomes in the US appear. At a time when genuine news suggests that equity prices should be tanking, not hitting record highs, explanations based on crowd psychology, the virality of ideas, and the dynamics of narrative epidemics can shed some light. |
Emily Stewart, Vox Regular investors are piling into the stock market for the rush. Wall Street titans say they're making a grave mistake, but it's not so simple. |
Nathaniel Popper, New York Times Its users buy and sell the riskiest financial products and do so more frequently than customers at other retail brokerage firms, but their inexperience can lead to staggering losses. |
Jesse Felder, The Felder Report Just like 1999 people are paying ridiculous prices for stocks. |
Veronique de Rugy, Reason When COVID-19 arrived in America, Uncle Sam was already deep in debt. |
Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic Moving in with your parents is often seen as a mark of irresponsibility. The pandemic might show the country that it shouldn’t be. |
James Picerno, Capital Spectator The 10 year Treasury yield has been suspiciously stable recently. |
Michael Brush, MarketWatch These lessons from Amana Growth Fund can make you a better investor |
Liz Alderman, New York Times The pandemic is propelling a shift toward a cashless society in ways that no other single event has. Experts say that's not necessarily a good thing. |
Donald Boudreaux, American Institute for Economic Research Some truths cannot be stated too often, including this one: the most important public service performed by economists is to bring to light – to haul, heave, push, pull, or drag into people’s line of intellectual vision – that which is unseen. Competent economists have performed this service from the start. |
Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch Believe it or not, there are some circumstances in which it's OK to try |
Coryanne Hicks, U.S. News & World Report MORE THAN ONE IN FOUR investors have experienced a financial loss in the stock market, according to Ameriprise Financial's January 2020 survey "Financial Comebacks." Today, that percentage is likely even higher given the recent economic disruption. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Michael Batnick, The Irrelevant Investor Tech stocks aren't crazy like they were in the late 90s, but that doesn't mean they're not a little nuts |
Brett Arends, MarketWatch There may be a bigger chance of losing than Wall Street tells you |
Matt Egan, CNN Americans' credit card debt is shrinking rapidly during the coronavirus recession. That's a sharp contrast with the last two economic downturns. |
Christine Benz, Morningstar Treasuries have been effective ballast, but that's not certain to continue. |
Corey A. DeAngelis, Reason Don't force schools to re-open but don't force families to pay for closed schools. |
William Cohan, VF In a Biden administration, Wall Street will feel pain: Hello, 28% top tax rate. Hello, continued deficit spending and addressing inequities. But every bit will be worth it. |
Jim O'Neill, Project Syndicate Given the sheer scale and unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 economic shock, it is not surprising that most commentators believe the outlook for recovery is bleak. But key weekly and monthly indicators suggest that a sharp return to growth remains more likely than not. |
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