05/28/2021
Today Jack Ryan & Lynley Sides, RCM Zillow made home shopping easier with its ubiquitous search tools. But the Seattle-based company recently broke with its long-time role as an independent platform when it joined the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and agreed to follow the powerful trade group's rules. Many of those rules prop up the legacy models of NAR's own members at the expense of consumers who are forced to pay thousands—if not, tens of thousands of dollars—in excessive realtor commissions every time they buy and sell a home. That's why our company, REX, is challenging one of those rules in Zillow's backyard,... |
Paul Krugman, NYT The bad news is a byproduct of extraordinary good news. |
Liz Peek, The Hill In just four months, the Biden economic wizards have made several major economic mistakes, some of which were contained in the American Rescue Plan. |
Kevin Williamson, NRO Acting like our house is on fire when it isn't is foolish and dangerous. |
Jeffrey Tucker, RCM The case of Uruguay - that inauspicious, high-income utopia south of Brazil - seemed like everything of which the lockdown lobby had dreamed. A hard imposition of lockdown policies early in the pandemic. No one leaves their homes. No travel. Mask up. Keep the virus out. Crush it with coercion. No crowds! No fun allowed! And boom: it worked. Covid stayed away! For the world press, Uruguay was the ideal. It was not Brazil with its Trump-like president and federalist chaos. Uruguay officials behaved with intelligence, pushing the most extreme lockdown policies recommended by the WTO. By... |
Corey McLaughlin, AC Investing legend Marc Chaikin details why he left Wall Street a decade ago, turning his efforts to help everyday retail investors. |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments Declining fertility rates don't spell doom for stocks, in our view. |
Hayes Brown, MSNBC.com Anti-immigration Republicans are teeing the U.S. up for big problems in a global baby bust. |
Kristen Osenga, RCM At first blush, the Biden administration's decision to support waiving international intellectual property protections for coronavirus vaccines seems like a laudable act of humanitarian largesse, but the waiver is really a wolf in sheep's clothing. The change would do little to speed up the production and distribution of vaccines in the countries that need them most, and the long-term ramifications would chill innovation domestically and globally. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) recently revealed what many on the Left hope to accomplish through this waiver. "Special [IP] protections for... |
Brent Orrell, USA TODAY What employers are seeking most, and not finding as often as they'd like, are workers who have what are known as "noncognitive" or "soft" skills. |
Brad Polumbo, Washington Examiner Big Tech bias and social media censorship is a serious concern. But Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis needs to realize that any conservative "solution" that violates the First Amendment is no solution at all. |
Rani Molla & Peter Kafka, Vox It probably won't look like this for long. |
Jeffrey Kleintop, Charles Schwab While it's very early to say the rise in inflation has passed, there are signs that the fastest part of the rebound in inflation might soon be over. |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Financial Network Happy birthday to the Dow! Commonwealth CIO Brad McMillan celebrates the index and what it has meant for the stock market and investors. |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Schwab Retirement planning is important for everyone, but retiring military have unique planning challenges. Here's why. |
Ethan Yang, AIER "Unilaterally and arbitrarily shutting down all of economic and social life was never part of the solution, nor should it ever be. Covid-19 has been the first test for these experimental lockdown policies and no rational observer should look back at the results and conclude that this is all... |
Russell Redenbaugh & James Juliano, Kairos Capital Management |
Jeffrey Buchbinder, LPL Financial Research Monday, May 24, 2021 Top Story Stock Market Gains Likely To Slow |
Eric Compton, MStar Several funds see value in technology, energy, and communication services. |
Stephen S. Roach, Project Syndicate The US Federal Reserve is insisting that recent increases in the price of food, construction materials, used cars, personal health products, gasoline, and appliances reflect transitory factors that will quickly fade with post-pandemic normalization. But what if they are a harbinger, not a "noisy" deviation? |
Rebecca Leber, Vox Exxon, Shell, and Chevron are under siege in the courtroom and the boardroom. |
Marshall Auerback, The Nation China's warnings on the use of digital currencies suggest that the long-awaited official sector crackdown has begun—and it's a good thing too. |
William Voegeli, Claremont Review Activist government's crisis of competence. |
Arielle Pardes, Wired It's never been easier to invest in startups, and Gen Z is taking full advantage. |
David Dayen, The American Prospect The company wants to control pricing on everything, and funnel as many transactions to itself as possible. Here's how the MGM deal does that. |
James Gannon, The Hill Thanks to a swift vaccine rollout, the situation on the home front has improved enough to allow the administration to pivot to the global fight. |
Bruce Yandle, Washington Examiner It was with a feeling of deep disappointment, as well as some deja vu, that I read Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is still pushing to form an international cartel of governments that would implement a minimum corporate income tax rate across borders. Now, instead of 21%, Yellen is calling for a… |
Linsey McGoey, New York Times The Gates divorce is prompting people to ask hard questions about the foundation. That's good. |
Hans Bader, Foundation for Economic Education Kim Kardashian has expressed a desire to become a lawyer without going to law school. As it happens, many of the finest lawyers in American history never attended law school. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Jana Kasperkevic, ProMarket Economist Daniel Cohen explores the emergence of the digital society and its never-ending pursuit for growth. |
Adwait Patil, Digg "It has been hard to convey, through anecdotes or data, how bizarre the US housing market has become," Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman said on Twitter. |
Caroline Delbert, PM These aren't your average reactors. |
Ian Birrell, UnHerd Scientists and the media eagerly denounced credible evidence as a conspiracy theory |
Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund Long-term thinking is easier to believe in than accomplish. |
Christine Benz, Morningstar These three maneuvers will tend to deliver a higher tax benefit than writing a check and deducting it, and may even improve your portfolio. |
Nick Maggiulli, Of Dollars And Data Clearing up misconceptions on Millennial wealth and who is actually struggling in the generational divide. |
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