04/09/2020
Today Edward Lampert, New York Sun America has been responding to the Covid-19 pandemic like it’s a hurricane — stay inside until it passes. A more constructive and realistic approach would be to treat it like driving a car — find rules that reduce the risk. |
Elizabeth Warren, New York Times Government action is essential to save lives and to rescue our economy. Let's get back to work. |
John Tierney, City Journal Absurd bureaucratic strictures are hindering efforts to fight Covid-19. |
Thomas Hazlett, Truth On The Market [TOTM: The following is part of a blog series by TOTM guests and authors on the law, economics, and policy of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The entire series of posts is available here. This post is authored by Thomas W. Hazlett, (Hugh H. Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics, John E. Walker Department of Economics ? |
Frank Bruni, New York Times They're pandemic partners, and that's double trouble. |
John Tamny, RCM In 2005, not too long after taking over as CEO of J.P. Morgan, Jamie Dimon made plain that proprietary trading would be de-emphasized. Some were surprised given how much the prop desk boosted firm... |
George Salapa, Worth The short-term coronavirus market dip doesn't seem to interest the Berkshire Hathaway CEO. So, what will he buy next? |
Anna Bahney, CNN With millions of people experiencing job loss because of the outbreak, people are looking for ways to cover expenses in the short term. |
Gus Van Horn, RCM Until recently, we could all laugh at California's mind-boggling array of bans. Years ago, they prohibited single-use plastic bags. Gig work was banned this year, but firms like Uber fought back in... |
Ashish Jha, Forbes To reopen our economy and keep it open, we need to make testing for COVID-19 our top priority. We are still not performing enough tests. The barriers to more widespread testing are not insurmountable but need focus and priority by the federal government. |
Jeffrey Tucker, American Institute for Economic Research Jack Reed, the American communist who was buried in the Kremlin, is the author of the extremely exciting book Ten Days that Shook the World. It’s about the Bolshevik Revolution which is witnessed first hand, and he was a huge fan who turned out to be one of many of its victims. But his book is also about any time of astonishing upheaval, times like our own when history seems to turn on a dime in ways no one expected. A quasi-free society became a fully planned one, under the control of an elite who claimed the mantle of science. |
Heather Boushey, American Prospect The coronavirus is, above all, a public-health crisis, and the economic impact could be devastating. But before any of us even heard of COVID-19, our society and economy suffered from deeply-ingrained problems, starting with economic inequality, which this crisis will undoubtedly exacerbate. The need for substantially increased public spending and investment will not diminish once the public-health crisis fades. |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Schwab Worried about selling in a down market? There's more than one way to come up with cash when you need it, says Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz. |
Kevin Fowler, Volusion See which public colleges boast the highest earnings for students post-graduation |
Ilya Gofshteyn, Standard Chartered |
Brandon Medina, Construction Coverage |
Various, Competitive Enterprise Institute |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Maryalene LaPonsie, U.S. News & World Report SAVING MONEY TO YOUR retirement fund is only part of ensuring a financially secure future. The other half involves making smart decisions about when and how to withdraw cash. |
Howard Gold, MarketWatch 15 top planners tell us what people retiring soon should do now |
Kenneth Rogoff, Project Syndicate Until there is a better sense of when and how the COVID-19 public-health crisis will be resolved, economists cannot even begin to predict the end of the recession that is now underway. Still, there is every reason to anticipate that this downturn will be far deeper and longer than that of 2008. |
James Agresti, Foundation for Economic Education Given the spread of misinformation about COVID-19, Just Facts is providing a trove of rigorously documented facts about this disease and its impacts. These include some vital facts that have been absent or misreported in much of the media’s coverage of this issue. This research also includes a groundbreaking study to determine the lethality of COVID-19 based on the most comprehensive available measure: the total years of life that it will rob from people. |
Edward Stringham, American Institute for Economic Research |
Kimberly Lankford, U.S. News NOW THAT SO MANY businesses are closed or suffering big losses because of the coronavirus, many people are interested in how business interruption insurance works and whether it can offer some relief. This type of coverage can help a business continue to pay its bills while the business is closed (or income is down) because of a disaster. Here's more information about what business interruption insurance is, how it works and whether coronavirus claims are covered. |
Susan Dziubinski, Morningstar Here are our analysts' top ideas in each sector this quarter. |
Stephen Eide, Manhattan Institute |
Matthew Yglesias, Vox The internet has been a productivity bust until now, when it's emerged as vital. |
Aaron Brown, RCM A friend commented he personally knew three people who died of coronavirus, none of whom knew or associated with each other, and none of whom had been in places with high rates of infection. The... |
Brittany Bronson, New York Times The casinos at the heart of our economy are "nonessential." How will workers recover? |
Nigam Arora, MarketWatch Investors who went all-in on stocks might sell once they recoup some of their losses, leading to a bigger decline in the market |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Cullen Roche, Pragmatic Capitalism The US economy is a lot different now. |
Julie Segal, Institutional Investor With the markets still reeling, Universa's risk mitigation investments get a big test. |
Scott Sumner, The Money Illusion The Fed seems to be trying to save Wall Street and Main Street this time around but they could do so much more. |
Nick Maggiulli, Of Dollars & Data On the movement to cash and what it means for markets. |
Jason Goepfert, SentimenTrader "Just a bear market rally" |
Lina Zeldovich, JSTOR Daily One man saw it coming and America produced 40 million doses of a vaccine. |
Jeff Carter, Points and Figures |
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