06/23/2021
Today Grace Chung, II Applied Finance argues that despite their prices, growth companies may very well be undervalued in terms of their intrinsic value. |
Maurie Backman, Motley Fool There are different retirement savings plans you can choose from. If you're contemplating a Roth IRA, here's what you... |
Jordan Weissmann, Slate We are a nation of fast-food workers cannonballing into the bubble-filled sink of liberation. |
James Manyika & Michael Spence, Foreign Affairs How to capture the pandemic's productivity potential. |
Susan Swain, C-SPAN John Tamny talked about the actions taken by federal and state officials during the coronavirus pandemic, the trillions of dollars appropriated by Congress for relief, government funding for vaccine development, and more. Mr. Tamny argued in his book, [When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason], that government-mandated lockdowns in the U.S. were not necessary and did more harm than good. |
Jeffrey Tucker, RCM One of the great mysteries of history yet to be fully solved is the role of President Donald Trump in the Covid pandemic and policy response. His actions, decisions, and messaging on the topic heavily contributed to dooming his presidency, from what his pollsters later said. Most people remember the part when he favored opening the economy, from late summer 2020 onward. What they forget are the two previous periods. There was the initial period in January, when he seemed to deny that the pathogen could do any real damage, as if he could know that. He treated the whole subject like a minor... |
Ryan Cooper, The Week The problem with post-pandemic economic predictions |
Harold Furchtgott-Roth & Kirk Arner, RCM Americans proved resilient during the COVID pandemic, in major part because of American broadband. In most areas of the country, American broadband is fast, reliable, competitive, privately-provided, and affordable. And thanks to American broadband, millions of Americans were able to continue to work, attend classes, receive medical attention, shop for necessities, and communicate with loved ones in ways that were unimaginable just a few years ago—and are still unimaginable in most of the world. These successes are a testament to a simple but powerful economic principle: consumers are... |
Bryce Covert, New York Times While the idiotic controversy over what constitutes infrastructure rages, the president should look to his former rivals to improve his family plan. |
Allison Schrager, City Journal We need to raise more tax revenue, but how we do it matters. |
Steve Forbes & Stephen Moore, The Hill It's very likely that the Biden tax proposal, which raises the federal tax rate from about 40 percent today to a new 55 percent tax rate, (a new 15 percent payroll tax plus a 40 percent income tax on incomes of more than $400,000) would reduce taxable income. |
Aaron Rhodes, RealClearMarkets No one should doubt the humanitarian heart of UN Secretary-General António Guterres, whose start in public service followed his engagement in the Catholic Church's "social action" channel. After his term as Prime Minister of Portugal, he served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, arguably the toughest and most heartbreaking job in any international institution, during the still-ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, the worst since World War II. What has emerged more strongly since his elevation to UN Secretary General, however, is a tendency to use that position to promote socialism. ... |
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Julie Ryan Evans, MagnifyMoney 40% of investors said they have taken on debt to invest, including 80% of Gen Zers and 60% of millennials. |
Various, ACE Cash Express Have you ever thought about how much money it costs to host the Olympics? The ACE Cash Express Knowledge Hub breaks down the estimated cost for the countries that have hosted the Olympics. |
Rob Williams, Charles Schwab Should you take a lump-sum pension payout, or a monthly income stream for life? How to decide. |
Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab It's been a highly-rotational stock market this year in terms of leadership; with aggressively-speculative themes peppered in. Remember, neither FOMO nor HODL are investment strategies. |
Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab The Fed kept rates unchanged, but updated median projections from the FOMC show two rate hikes likely by the end of 2023. |
Derek Bergen, Applied Finance While Applied Finance has long advocated for investors to consider the strategic advantages from incorporating a valuation-based discipline in portfolio construction and stock selection, this study provides compelling evidence that even passive allocations benefit when index weights are formed on intrinsic value characteristics instead of using market cap as a proxy. |
David Audretsch, RCM It's no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic devastated small businesses and that elected officials have tried mightily to help. For the first time in our history, the federal government delivered hundreds of billions of dollars directly to small businesses in their time of desperate need. This was a critically important tourniquet when the patient was bleeding out. But now Congress is poised to tear open the wounds with new digital economy policies that will undercut the recovery and leave small businesses less prepared for the next crisis. |
Myron Brilliant, The Hill The United States badly needs a forward-leaning, market opening trade agenda. |
Tammy McCutchen, The Examiner The Biden Labor Department recently blocked a regulation concerning gig workers and independent contractors, and as Bloomberg reported last week, "The Biden Administration faces mounting pressure from the left to launch an enforcement investigation against a gig power." The goal: forcing gig… |
Ira Stoll, NYS When in 2017 Bill O'Reilly was forced out of Fox News amid MeToo-era reports of complaints about his behavior, the New York Times concluded its account of his ouster by predicting, "sales of his books will almost certainly decline without the benefit |
Aaron Tao, Foundation for Economic Education Some continue to argue that cancel culture is just the "free market at work." The claim is both wrong and disingenuous. |
David Eifrig, American Consequences Instead of working forever, here are some simple, sage tips on how to make your money work for you as you approach your golden years. |
Paul Krugman, New York Times Don't worry: Lumber is falling and the Fed is on the case. |
Andrew Graham, U.S. News & World Report Earlier this year, politicians, pundits and everyday consumers debated whether higher inflationwould materialize as 2021 played out. Many believed that with unemployment still well above pre-pandemic levels, prices would remain stable, even as vaccinations increased and economies reopened. |
Sydney Ember, New York Times With new opportunities and a different perspective as the pandemic eases, workers are choosing to leave their jobs in record numbers. |
J.W. Verret, Hill The blanket ban on felons in the federal securities laws was adopted in 1934, long before the nation's failed over-prosecution strategy in the war on drugs. |
Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN For much of the past 16 months, Amazon's warehouse workers have faced grueling pressure to keep up with the demand from households for online goods during the pandemic. Now, workers must endure the stress of meeting a spike in orders from Amazon's summer shopping holiday, which kicks off Monday. |
Seth Berenzweig & John Tamny, The Capitol Brief Seth Berenzweig & John Tamny discuss taxes on billionaires |
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Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
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Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic And how "The Mandalorian" can restore the true power of George Lucas's galaxy |
Christine Romans, CNN Johnny Paycheck sang "Take this job and shove it" in 1977. Today, it may well be the mantra for the post-Covid workforce. |
Eric Compton, MStar We examine the biggest contributors to -- and detractors from -- the performance of the index during the past year. |
Brian Doherty, Reason Prices are up all over the economy. Here are scenarios about what might happen next. |
James Picerno, The Capital Spectator Inflation has surged recently, raising concern that the US economy faces its biggest threat to pricing stability since the 1970s. |
Nick Bilton, Vanity Fair Welcome to the new space race, as the world's richest men compete over who has the biggest rocket—and the ability to win lucrative contracts. |
Carl Bildt, Project Syndicate China's leaders clearly understand the critical importance of trade linkages to their country's global clout. Unfortunately, US President Joe Biden's administration needs to relearn that lesson. |
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