03/18/2021
Today Jeff Deist, Mises Institute Niall Ferguson holds a PhD in philosophy from Oxford, taught history at Harvard and NYU, and wrote perhaps the definitive biography of Henry Kissinger. So, naturally, Bloomberg hired him to write on economics. |
Jeet Heer, The Nation The stimulus bill shows how much Sanders has changed the Democratic Party on domestic policy. Foreign policy is the next hurdle. |
John Tamny, RCM "Besides," added Papa, "sometimes the price of things goes up, like gas. The price of gas for our car went up twenty cents just last week! Maybe the same thing happens with teeth." - Jan & Mike Berenstain, The Berenstain Bears and the Tooth Fairy, p. 8 Sister Bear has just lost a tooth. It had been loose for a time, and it finally came out in this children's book series about first experiences. Mama and Papa Bear tell her to put the tooth under her pillow so that the Tooth Fairy can replace it with money. There's quite a bit of economic learning that can be had from this simple story. It's... |
James Bovard, AIER In the Biden era, federal competence has been defined down to mailing government checks to people who didn't earn them to buy votes for politicians who don't deserve them. AWashington Post headline whooped that Biden's American Rescue Plan Act "showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty and favoring individuals over businesses." On Monday, President Biden boasted of "100 million shots in people's arms" and "100 million checks in people's pockets" in the next ten days. The Biden administration is launching a nationwide "Help is Here" victory tour promoting its achievements. |
Dean Obeidallah, MSNBC Why did most Republicans vote against Biden's $1.9 billion Covid-19 relief bill? |
Paul Brandus, MW Under the new president, it could get more expensive to live in Florida and other areas besieged by rising temperatures and tides. |
Paul La Monica, CNN Mortgage rates have been steadily rising this year, but that doesn't seem to be slowing demand for housing â?" yet. |
Editorial, Issues & Insights Raising taxes on the wealthy has a way of backfiring. Why? It leads to lower wages and fewer jobs for those who need them most. |
Veronique de Rugy, The American Spectator Trump is gone, but realize that many of his policies are still firmly in place in the Biden administration. |
Harold Furchtgott-Roth & Kirk Arner, RCM On the campaign trail, the Biden campaign voiced its support for network neutrality—"net neutrality" for short. The topic has resurfaced in recent weeks and months thanks to a few key events. These include the appointment of a new acting FCC chairwoman, the DOJ dropping a lawsuit against the state of California, and Biden's choice of Tim Wu, the so-called "father of net neutrality," for a National Economic Council role. How exactly will the Biden administration act on the issue of net neutrality? How will these decisions affect AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Comcast, Charter, and countless... |
Gabriel Winant, NYT Health care workers are crucial to our society, yet we reward them with low wages and dangerous conditions. |
Mark Whittington, Washington Examiner Since the deep freeze that brought down the Texas energy grid, causing millions of Texans to freeze in the dark, a variety of fixes have been proposed to ensure that such an event never happens again. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Adam Phillips, BMO Global Asset Management |
Martin Pring, Pring.com A bubble develops when the price of an asset, such as a stock or commodity, has been advancing for many years. The process culminates with an almost exponential rise that push prices to levels that cannot be sustained by the underlying fundamentals, eventually resulting in exhaustion and the bubble bursting. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Steven Malanga, Manhattan Institute New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio took office amid an economic expansion and immediately increased spendingâ?"granting raises to tens of thousands of workers, adding new programs, and increasing the size of the city workforce by tens of thousands of new positions. He will leave office amid a... |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Jordan Schachtel, AIER The economic results of America's ongoing experiment with COVID-19 top-down authoritarianism are in, and they provided for the clearest picture to date about the very real, devastating side effects of lockdowns. |
Bryce Covert, New York Times There are better ways to follow the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s call for a guaranteed income. |
Vivekanand Jayakumar, The Hill There are a few serious headwinds that are likely to pose a threat to the US economy, especially over the medium to long run. |
Will Hild, Washington Times In what has become an increasingly rare occurrence, there appears to be growing bipartisan consensus forming that America's "Big Tech" industry needs regulatory reform. |
Maryalene LaPonsie, U.S. News Here's what you should know about the new tax credit. |
Dan Mitchell, International Liberty Thanks to globalization (as opposed to globalism), jobs and investment are now very mobile. This means the costs of bad policy are higher than ever before, and it also means the benefits of good policy are higher than ever before. Which is why it's very useful to look at various competitiveness rankings, most notably the? |
Bill Carter, CNN Are the movies over? |
Edward Stringham, Am. Institute for Economic Research One year ago, between March 13 and 16, 2020, began what most of us would agree were the most difficult days of our lives. We thought our rights and liberties were more or less secure or could only be hobbled on the margin. We took certain things for granted, such as that our governments would not - and could not - order us to stay home, close most businesses and schools, shut down travel, padlock churches and concert halls, cancel events, much less lock down society in the name of virus control. |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments This week's successful bond auctions suggest rumors of Treasury demand's demise are greatly exaggerated. |
Jennifer Horn, USA Today Finally, in Joe Biden, we have a president who cares. "I know it's been hard. I truly know," he said, reflecting on a year of loss of both life and living. "I will not relent until we beat this virus, but I need you, the American people. I need you. I need every American to do their part, and that's not hyperbole." |
Ira Stoll, New York Sun No sooner had the ink dried on the American Rescue Plan Act signed into law by President Biden than calls began to make permanent the expanded child tax credit that the law provides as a one-year emergency measure for 2021. |
Cade Metz, The New York Times When Google forced out two well-known artificial intelligence experts, a long-simmering research controversy burst into the open. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Eric Boehm, Reason The White House is reportedly considering hiking the corporate income tax to 28 percent and raising individual income taxes on high earners to pay for more federal spending. |
Christine Benz, Morningstar The author and financial advisor on popular mass delusions and whether we're in a bubble. |
Jack Forehand, Validea The rise of high quality within value |
Charlie Bilello, Compound Advisors What a difference a year makes. |
Frances Coppola, Coppola Comment The world is transitioning from a carbon-intensive to a metals-intensive economy. |
Robert McCauley, FT Alphaville A deadline approaches for bank leverage. |
Izabella Kaminska, FT Alphaville Is this how liberty dies? With the transparent tokenisation of people? |
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