07/12/2021
Today Maurie Backman, Motley Fool More than 20% of people check their investments on a daily basis. If you're in that habit, it's time to break it – before it comes back to bite you. |
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Andrew Wilford, RCM Progressive news organization ProPublica has made a great deal of hay recently by pretending that public, widely-known, and intentional elements of the tax code are secret loopholes for the rich. The game plan is always the same: take a tax deduction, find an application of the deduction used by a wealthy taxpayer, then heavily imply that it was inserted purely for the benefit of these rich individuals' checkbooks. Now it's gone back to the well with yet another "exposé," this time claiming that amortization of business expenses is somehow a nefarious handout to the well-to-do. |
Zachary Karabell, Time The Chinese crackdown on tech companies like Didi isn't all that different from what U.S. regulators want to do to Big Tech |
Alan Dershowitz, Hill The conflict between free speech and the First Amendment arises when private companies use the First Amendment as both a shield and a sword selectively to censor free speech. |
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Baggage fees, drug prices, net neutrality — Biden aims to reduce industry's control of your daily life. |
John Tamny, Forbes Biden administration insiders plainly lack an understanding of business history. |
Charles Gasparino, New York Post The nation is recovering from a horrible pandemic, which big tech helped us survive and stock prices went up. But Charles Gasparino posits the head honchos aren't happy right now. |
David Simon, RCM President Biden implores us that climate change is an "existential threat" to humanity. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry preaches to us that "[t]he climate crisis as a whole is a national security threat because it is disruptive to the daily lives of human beings all over the world." Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warns us that in 2030, "the world is going to end … if we don't address climate change." Hold on to your wallet. The Left's global warming Chicken Littles insist that the sky is falling but don't want you to know six key facts. |
Sophia June, New York Times "It's actually crazy how outdated it is." People born after AOL Mail was invented seem to prefer to communicate in almost any other way. |
Jeffrey Tucker, RealClearMarkets Life in the United States and in many parts of the world was transformed in mid-March 2020. That was when the great experiment began. It was a test. How much power does government have to rule nearly the whole of life? To what extent can all the power of the state be mobilized to take away rights that people had previously supposed were protected by law? How many restrictions on freedom would people put up with without a revolt? It was also a test of executive and bureaucratic power: can these dramatic decisions be made by just a handful of people, independent of all our slogans about... |
Trish Regan, American Consequences With a booming post-pandemic real estate market looking to bubble, here are the best ways to leverage this sector while you still can. |
Jeffrey Kleintop, Charles Schwab In the last few weeks, stock market leadership reversed back to lockdown-era defensives as the stock market made new all-time highs. |
Binky Chadha, Deutsche Bank Group |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Schwab The path to financial independence can start right now with seven important steps. |
Eric Kober, Manhattan Institute Many American metropolitan areas exhibited robust job growth in the favorable economic conditions that prevailed for most of the past decade, up to the pandemic-induced recession of 2020. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Shang-Jin Wei, Project Syndicate At-risk economies may have six months or so to implement self-help measures before any sudden US monetary-policy tightening happens. They are well advised to work on making their exchange rates more flexible, reducing their reliance on foreign-currency debt, and increasing their foreign-exchange reserves. |
Sara Morrison, Vox The president's big antitrust push could impact how much you pay for plane tickets and prescription drugs. |
Richard Salsman, AIER The CPI will probably increase by 3-5% for all of 2021. That is not nearly as bad as the 1970s, when the rate averaged 7.4% p.a. (and peaked at 13.3% in late 1979), but it's still bad for equity valuations. |
Josh Terry, VICE Pressing plants can't keep up with unprecedented demand, and big box chains are selling LPs now, resulting in devastating delays. |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar For the most part, the markets behaved in line with expectations. |
Paul B. Brown, New York Times It is easy to obsess about the smallest parts of your portfolio, like the tiny amounts of interest spun off by money-market funds today. Don't waste your time. |
Steven Greenhut, Reason Ending single-family zoning doesn't ban single-family homes from neighborhoods. It merely allows more freedom for people to build what they want. |
Jeanna Smialek & Ben Casselman, New York Times Prices climbed for years before the runaway inflation of the 1970s. Economists see parallels today, but the differences are just as important. |
Rani Molla & Emily Stewart, Vox Why are prices going up? Used cars, gas, and groceries seem more expensive because they are. |
Stephanie Krikorian, Vanity Fair Sky-high rental costs, a ban on temporary work visas, and an exploding population due to COVID have forced East Enders to mow their own lawns, iron their own sheets, and forego salon appointments. "Everyone's going for the natural look this year," says one resident. |
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Emile Warot, ProMarket Baseball's antitrust exemption is a historical curiosity. Why has a professional sports league enjoyed a legal monopoly for nearly a century? |
James Picerno, The Capital Spectator That's what the bond market seems to be saying. |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense Bull markets can last longer than you think. |
Cullen Roche, PC It's impossible to talk about interest rates without running into people who think the Fed has "manipulated" interest rates lower than they otherwise would be. As if the bond market has become nothing more than one huge completely manipulated Federal Reserve market. |
Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture The real reason retaurants and bars can't find workers. |
Tim De Chant, Ars Technica Private equity's cryptocurrency experiment pushes more costs on the public. |
Justin Webb, UnHerd They feel too weak and stupid to make a difference |
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