05/30/2020
Today Courtenay Brown & Jordan Flowers, New York Times Thanks for the flattering commercials, but we?re about to lose our hazard pay. |
John Tamny, RCM On March 18th FedEx founder & CEO Fred Smith was interviewed by Fox's Bret Baier about the new coronavirus. Smith's entrepreneurial brilliance makes him an insightful interview at any... |
Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch 94% of S&P 500 stocks currently trade above their 50-day moving average |
Jeffrey Lord, American Spectator Twitter's Jack Dorsey â?" @Jack â?" has just made it plain: Twitter is now officially a publisher. Here is Florida... |
Donald Boudreaux, Cafe Hayek I’m familiar with the concept of externalities. And I agree that looming somewhere in the bowels of Oren Cass’s hostility to financial-market activities is an aching suspicion that these activities give rise to negative externalities – that is, to undesirable effects on third parties that are unaccounted for by persons whose actions create those effects. |
Raymond Niles, American Institute for Economic Research Many conservatives are upset. They are upset that they cannot post their opinions, as they see fit, on various media outlets. President Trump just chimed in, using Twitter to denounce Twitter and other social media platforms by saying, “Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives (sic) voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen.” |
Jack Markell, Hill When President Obama appointed Vice President Biden to oversee Recovery Act spending, they both made clear that the mandate would be to insist that the funds were spent effectively â?" without waste. |
Steve Forbes, Forbes Steve Forbes engages the world?s top newsmakers, politicians and pioneers in business and economics in his new podcast "What's Ahead" |
Josh Barro, New York Expect hundreds of thousands of the company's cars to show up at used car dealerships soon. That will have carryover effects for carmakers. |
Q.V. Hough, Screen Rant Directed by Lisa Bryant, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich investigates the events that preceded Epstein's 2019 arrest and sudden death. Overall, the Netflix docuseries offers little information about the psychology behind Jeffrey Epstein's predatory behavior, but does reveal plenty about how the American businessman used his wealth for sexual purposes in private situations. Based on James Patterson's eponymous 2016 book, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Richreleased in May 2020. |
JT McCormick, CNN For the companies that provide it, a dynamic work environment can lead to reduced costs without the strain on relationships and productivity. Companies can rethink the size and location of their office spaces due to having less people on-site daily. |
Binky Chadha, Deutsche Bank Group |
Thomas Kirchner & Paul Hoffmeister, CP Lufthansa's billion Euro government rescue stands in sharp contrast to the free market approach taken by U.S. airlines in raising the capital necessary to bridge the corona-lockdown. It also explains why the recovery of European stock markets lags the U.S. by substantial margins, illustrating what is going wrong in the Eurozone. |
Jerry Bowyer, Vident Financial |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Schwab New changes in the military retirement system give greater importance to the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), says Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz. Here's why. |
Stephen Rose & Robert Cherry, Manhattan Institute Average hourly wage growth of black men and women lagged behind the wage growth of non-Hispanic white men and women. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Tom Bergin, Reuters Last month Zagg Inc, a Utah-based company that makes mobile device accessories, received more than $9.4 million in cash from a U.S. government program that has provided emergency loans to millions of businesses hit by the coronavirus. |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar The pros and cons of rebalancing. |
Howard Marks, Oaktree Capital Management You can't predict the future. Get over it. |
John Taylor, Project Syndicate Policymakers around the world already recognize that they need to find a way to reopen national economies safely and in accordance with policies to keep the COVID-19 pandemic under control. Yet not nearly enough has been done to encourage new markets that can operate even under conditions of economic lockdown. |
Ben Casselman, The New York Times Emergency programs have cushioned the shutdown's impact on workers and businesses and lifted the economy, but may not outlast the coronavirus crisis. |
Karl Tomusk, Wired Expensive offices filled with perks have become ghost towns ?â?Â" and someone needs to foot the bill |
Ed Yardeni, Dr. Ed's Blog Investors also should keep an eye on the battle brewing between the US and China. |
Jaimy Lee, MarketWatch Individual investors are investing in virus stocks based on single headlines, while there has been a shift in how medical research is disseminated |
Matt Welch, Reason The bad policy and worse politics of coronavirus stimulus spending |
Theodore Schleifer, Vox Inside the experiments, data wars, and partisan news sites that Silicon Valley thinks can help Biden catch up to Trump. |
Jeffrey Frankel, Project Syndicate Once again, new economic readings from the World Bank's International Comparison Program have fed into the long-going debate over whether China is surpassing the United States as an economic and financial power. And once again, the answer to that question is a qualified "no." |
Jeffrey P. Snider, Alhambra Investments It has to be a combination of confirmation bias and rationalizations. Not even the official story finishes up with the fairy tale ending. The “V” people seem to be ignoring what the most optimistic group is actually saying. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Matt Egan, CNN Business Business leaders predict the United States will swiftly dig itself out of the deep downturn driven by the coronavirus pandemic. |
John Cochrane, The Grumpy Economist As the economy recovers, public policy faces an inevitable dilemma. How do we wean the economy from support? |
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon I am hearing a lot of ‘Shoulda Coulda’s’ from my friends and people on Stocktwits. |
Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution When vaccines or other treatments do well, all stocks do well which is why stock prices are now highly correlated |
Charu Sudan Kasturi, Ozy For Xi Jinping, the new controversial law for Hong Kong is a means to send a message to Taiwan and the West, and to regain domestic credibility. |
Nina Khrushcheva, Project Syndicate Although worries about Russian disinformation are not unfounded, they have steadily grown into an unhealthy obsession in the United States and other Western democracies. When absolutely everything is blamed on Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin has little reason not to continue misbehaving. |
The Investor, Monevator Stock markets crashed and bond yields collapsed as coronavirus ravaged the world: whatever happens next, 2020 will be one for the history books. |
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