04/15/2021
Today Steve Hanke, National Review The recently released Consumer Price Index numbers should be seen as a harbinger of what's to come. |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments Surging CPI is more math quirkiness than inflation. |
Karen Petrou, Hill It's not often we find a win-win policy — more credit without more risk — but the few, easy changes that would sharply increase mortgage opportunity are an example. |
Adam Brandon, Newsmax Taxes invariably hurt those with the least the most. |
John Tamny, RealClearMarkets Since March of 2020 nervous, but obviously well-to-do Americans have quite literally been "quarantining" packages shipped to them, and that were dropped off at their residences by "science-denying" untouchables who were too poor to not be sheltering-in-place. The package-terrified have usually waited 48 hours before touching said box and contents. What about the Clorox wipes that were never in stock thanks to frantic science believers clearing the shelves of them? And that was just at home. |
Beth Akers, USA Today Though many are calling for debt cancellation, having a college degree gives you the advantage of higher pay and more job security. |
James Pethokoukis, Week Republicans want to be a workers party now — but the culture war keeps getting in the way |
Michael Barone, The Examiner It wasn't even close. The final count was 1,798 against and 738 for, 71% to 29%. |
Thomas Edsall, New York Times But the internal contradictions of "woke capitalism" are a mixed blessing for the Democratic Party. |
Brett Arends, MarketWatch You may be surprised what stocks you hold if you're invested in an S&P 500 index |
Rebecca Heilweil, Vox As Coinbase goes public, cryptocurrency is more mainstream than ever. |
Jim Campbell, New York Post For 12 years, business journalist Jim Campbell has interviewed members of Bernie Madoff's family and exchanged letters with the fraudster himself in prison. His new book, "Madoff Talks," comes out … |
Daniel Kern & Renee Kwok, TFC Financial Management |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Schwab Living paycheck to paycheck can feel like you're on an endless financial treadmill. Here's how to jump off. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab Over the past 70 years, rising government debt generally has been accompanied by weaker economic activity. But it's not a simple relationship. |
Russell Redenbaugh & James Juliano, Kairos Capital Mgmt. |
Liz Ann Sonders & Kevin Gordon, Charles Schwab Trendy and speculative trades have gained micro bubble status and rolled over of late, but their weakness hasn't infected the broader market. |
Rep. Jason Smith, Washington Examiner When President Joe Biden recently announced a $2.3 trillion spending plan, on the heels of the nearly $2 trillion bailout bill enacted in March, some Democrats in Washington complained. Their complaints: The price tag was not big enough, and the Washington power grab was not ambitious enough. |
Molly Kinder & Martha Ross, New York Times President Biden understands that caregiving is infrastructure, and that all families need it. |
Kalev Leetaru, RealClearPolitics RealClear Opinion Research recently conducted a poll about Biden's first 100 days in office. One of the questions asked was about changing the tax code and raising corporate tax rates to 28%. The timeline below shows monthly mentions of law enforcement on television news over the past decade, showing it was a significant topic in the aftermath of the Great Recession and again in 2016-2017 with the Trump administration's tax cuts, but there has been no major increase in coverage since Biden's election. Fox News has mentioned taxation the most of the three channels over the past decade and CNN... |
David Trainer & Kyle Guske & Matt Shuler, MarketWatch Coinbase may be a good company, but COIN, valued at $100 billion, is not an attractive stock to own. |
Brad Polumbo, Fdn. for Economic Education The reality TV star's poignant warning is borne out by the statistics. |
Jeffrey Tucker, AIER "Are we willing to throw ourselves into the intellectual battle to make things right, to restore and secure essential liberties and rights, to erect barriers that make it impossible for the ruling class ever to attempt such an experiment again? Or will we be grateful that we can at least... |
Eli Lehrer, Hill Business' rejection of so many key Republican priorities in Georgia and elsewhere shows that the party has given up standing for the most successful, entrepreneurial segments of America. |
Aaron Smith, CNN Editor's note: This story was originally published on May 16, 2013 and has been updated with Madoff's death. |
Edward Glaeser, NYT If a state wants funds for infrastructure, it should meet strict conditions about housing construction. |
Nicole Gelinas, New York Post Here's an economic-development idea for Gotham's political class: How about we stop shooting and stabbing our tourists? In the past few months, visitors from Kansas to Belgium have braved a p… |
Giacomo Tognini, Forbes Kate Wang, 39, jumped into the ranks of the world's richest when her vaping company RLX went public on the New York Stock Exchange in January. Now the Procter & Gamble and Uber veteran faces looming threats from Chinese regulators and skeptical investors. |
John Tamny, The Daily Wire Imagine a future defined by the past. For the purpose of When Politicians Panicked, imagine a future of laughing, cheering, joyous crowds at amusement |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Jamie Powell, FT Beware bond-like volatility with equity-like returns |
Scott Grannis, Calafia Beach Pundit It's fairly clear to all that the near-term outlook is rosy. But there are some potential problems developing. |
Nick Maggiulli, Of Dollars And Data On the illusionary nature of wealth and why it sometimes doesn't exist. |
Joshua M Brown, The Reformed Broker Banks are insanely profitable. |
Milton Ezrati, City Journal Using corporate tax hikes to finance the plan is self-defeating. |
Susan Dziubinski, Morningstar We think the payouts on these names are sustainable. |
Editors, The Christian Science Monitor One vision from a U.S. government think tank imagines how innovation and scientific progress could pave the way. |
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