12/07/2020
Today Charles Gasparino, New York Post It takes a preposterous leap of faith to argue that adding more women or minorities to corporate boards will miraculously lead to the end of illegal insider trading. |
Ron Lieber, New York Times Big investment managers are buying up companies that help with so-called direct indexing, which offers clients a way to boot individual companies from their portfolios. It has tax benefits, too. |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments Delisting isn't the end of the world for Chinese companies or the US investors who own them. |
John Tamny, Forbes Businesses in the spring of 2020 didn?t have cash-flow problems as much as they had lockdown problems. Money in 2020 missed the point. |
Eric Levitz, New York Magazine Friday's jobs report shows that the U.S. economy added about half as many jobs as expected in November, while permanent layoffs rose and the labor-force participation rate fell â?" all bad signs for the economy as the COVID pandemic worsens. |
James Pethokoukis, Week Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons. |
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times For the GOP, deficits only matter when there's a Democrat in the White House |
Judge Glock, National Review Congress must distinguish between wasteful 'stimulus' and targeted 'relief.' |
Jay Bhattacharya, American Institute for Economic Research The media relish negative news. “If it bleeds it leads” still holds, and perhaps it’s never been truer than in the COVID-19 era. Every day the news highlights the spread of the virus and tells the sad stories of some of its victims. And yet, much of the media does not pay sufficient attention to the good news regarding improved treatments and survival of patients with the coronavirus. In contrast with the international media, the American press has been unrelentingly negative in its COVID coverage, even when there is good news to tell. That negativity is part of... |
Kathryn Reynolds, The Hill Renters and owners across the nation need more federal funds. |
Eric Peterson, WE As many families begin their annual holiday traditions, Congress is following suit with a tradition of its own: using "must-pass" legislation and decorating it like a Christmas tree filled with unrelated amendments. But while these amendments typically involve handouts for special interests, this year's unrelated measure is a gift to our economic rivals. |
Chuck DeVore, Fox News If California's anti-jobs policies, its high taxes and more can chase out the company that launched Silicon Valley, is any business immune from pressure to move? |
John Merrifield & Matthew McGehee, Inst for Objective Policy |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Schwab What are fractional shares? This week's Ask Carrie explains how they work and how they can make stock investing easier and more accessible. |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Financial Network |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Russell Redenbaugh & James Juliano, Kairos Capital Management |
Joshua Gottlieb & Avi Zenilman, University of Chicago |
Cooper Howard, Charles Schwab We expect the municipal bond market to return to a sense of normalcy in 2021. |
John B. Taylor , Project Syndicate Former US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's forthcoming appointment to lead the Department of the Treasury is good news for advocates of rules-based monetary policymaking. Following a period of emergency measures, what the US needs now is a return to clear and predictable decision-making. |
Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund The ease of underestimating how bad things can be in the short run and how good they can be in the longer run is a leading cause of bad forecasts, bad decisions, and confused people. |
Evan Simonoff, Financial Adviser Waiting for value stocks to end their lagging performance versus glitzy growth has become as exhausting and surreal as waiting for Godot. |
Rani Molla, Vox A look at what's in store for Zoom in a post-pandemic world. |
Dirk Auer, Quillette Around the globe, governments are looking for ways to tax, fine, regulate, or break up Big Tech—part of a reaction against companies like Google and Amazon that has become known as the “techlash.” |
Max Gulker, Reason The current administration's trade policies have left the incoming president some low-hanging fruit. |
Issi Romem, The New York Times One long-lasting result of the pandemic may be innovations that make home buying faster. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Jeff Carter, Points and Figures Thoreaux's original essay needs some updating. |
Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution We should not let public policy be guided by the most risk averse, fearful, and scientifically illiterate among us. |
Ed Yardeni, Dr. Ed's Blog The Bond Vigilantes have been buried by the Fed. |
Ryan Young, Reason.com Republicans and Democrats are working together on an antitrust push against big tech. It will backfire big-time. |
J.C. Parets, All Star Charts 12 questions to ask yourself. |
Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics China has switched on its record-setting "artificial sun" tokamak. It's go time for the Far East's most formidable nuclear fusion reactor. |
Ian Frisch, Esquire The inside story of a black sheep hedge fund, their massive bet that shopping malls would crash, and how they proved Wall Street wrong. |
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