02/12/2021
Today Ken Fisher, RealClearMarkets The hubbub surrounding GameStop's recent boom—and bust—has many bemoaning retail investors getting the shaft. Brokerages halted trading in hedge funds' favor, allegedly. Congressional hearings loom, with opportunistic politicians from both parties screeching about markets stacked against the "little guy." As i see it, they're rigged to benefit investors big and small. Today, it's easier than ever to take advantage. Let me explain. When starting my career, 49 years ago, investors faced high hurdles. Until May 1975, the New York Stock Exchange enforced strict—and steep—minimum... |
Matthew Frankel, Motley Fool Buying stocks and building a portfolio of top-quality companies can be a great way to build wealth over time, but it isn't the only way to go. Quite frankly, buying individual stocks isn't right for everyone. Many people simply don't want to have to do investment research or depend on any one company for their investment performance. |
Vivek Wadhwa & Alex Salkever, MarketWatch As rivals start to sell electric vehicles in earnest, the market will grow and highlight Tesla's innovation prowess, protecting the planet in the process. |
Bernard Goldberg, The Hill Biden should think twice before giving in to progressives who won't suffer for what they call 'the greater good.' |
Gus Wezerek, New York Times Look at the data. |
Charles Sauer, Examiner While the political and policy divide between the Biden administration and the Trump administration is vast, there are also some policies that unite them. These areas of agreement could spell disaster for innovation. |
Alfredo Ortiz & John Motta, RCM Tax headaches have started early for American small businesses this tax season. States can help these employers and accelerate the economic recovery by clarifying that business expenses paid from Paycheck Protection Plan loans are fully tax-deductible, in-line with federal tax law. The PPP is one of the most successful government programs in American history. It distributed $525 billion worth of forgivable loans to more than 5 million small businesses nationwide, supporting over 50 million jobs. Without the PPP, unemployment would have been far higher and the economic contraction much more... |
Zachary Karabell, Time If the federal government won't use its economic powers to help ailing metropolises, then cities should be able to solve their own problems |
David Hebert & Abigail Hall, RealClearMarkets Billionaires should not exist. At least that is what Democratic leaders like Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez think. Both have argued that a society that allows billionaires to exist is fundamentally "immoral." They aren't the only ones who feel this way. Now a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, many remain jobless. People worry about keeping a roof over their heads and food on their tables. Some are quick to vilify billionaires like Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, or Microsoft's Bill Gates for earning seemingly obscene profits while millions around the... |
Paul Alexander, American Institute for Economic Research The question on whether to wear a face mask or not during the Covid-19 pandemic remains emotional and contentious. Why? This question about the utility of face coverings (which has taken on a talisman-like life) is now overwrought with steep politicization regardless of political affiliation (e.g. republican or liberal/democrat). |
Julian Castro & Dorian Warren, USA Today In January, President Joe Biden declared equity in housing as a top priority for his administration, and for good reason. Ten million people started off the new year behind on their rent payments — more than the number of people who lost their homes during the 2008 housing crisis. In addition to extending and expanding the Centers for Disease Control's eviction moratorium and providing relief to close the $70 billion backlog in missed rent payments, we need to tackle the underlying housing crisis that left more than 1 million Americans without a permanent home even before the pandemic. |
Jeffrey Snider, RCM Computing power being what it was in the eighties, still the financial system was at the leading edge of technological prowess. Big money involved, huge money, had meant the ever-expanding global monetary processing footprint had itself become big business. Not just large volumes of real economy payments to process and clear, also increasingly large volumes of securities transactions. During the decade before, the seventies, both kinds had progressively moved beyond national borders, too. One day in 1985, a computer system at the Bank of New York (BONY) found that it couldn't handle a large... |
Various, Research Affiliates By buying or overweighting characteristics-based factor exposure and selling or underweighting beta-based factor exposure, investors can position their portfolios to reap the rewards of factor investing while bearing less risk. |
David Kastner, Charles Schwab The financial sector has struggled as of late, but we think this is a potential opportunity for investors. |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, CS Take a lump sum or lifetime income from my pension? The best choice for you depends on your individual circumstances. |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Financial Network |
Brian Wesbury, First Trust Advisors |
Hayden Adams, Charles Schwab Understand tax rules to keep more of your gains. |
Cooper Howard, Charles Schwab Many municipalities are under stress, but that's not necessarily a reason to avoid municipal bonds. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Chris Isidore, CNN Business For a CEO with no base salary, Elon Musk's 2020 payday reached sky-high record levels. |
Veronique de Rugy, Reason The plan would redistribute wealth, create distortions, and grow government. |
Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica The retailer could still possibly arrange a stock-for-cash infusion in the future |
Ben Carlson, AWOCS Dollar cost averaging is boring but it works. |
Ed Yardeni, Dr. Ed's Blog In a recent Washington Post op-ed, Larry Summers trashed President Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan as too stimulative and too inflationary. He may have a point. |
Charlie Bilello, Compound Advisors It isn't either. It's 2021 and it will be different. |
Noah Williams, CJ State and local government revenues have recovered from the pandemic, and further federal aid is unnecessary. |
Editorial Board, New York Post Those bitter, now century-old lyrics from labor-movement poet Joe Hill seem to cover the Biden administration's promises of "green jobs" for all the people losing their actual jobs from the president's rabid anti-carbon agenda. |
Austin Carr, BusinessWeek Trade war? Pfft. Trump? Please. Antitrust? Zuck's prob. (Ditto privacy.) Revenue? Endless. |
Daniel Sotiroff, Morningstar The approach can struggle when the market changes direction or market volatility spikes. |
Shoshana Wodinsky, Gizmodo Amazon has been making a mint this past year. That's resulted in multi-billion dollar pay days for Jeff Bezos, and millions of the company's iconic cardboard boxes being left on doorsteps, and in lobbies and mailboxes every day. And that's a huge issue. |
Shannon Liao, CNN Over the course of his career Tim Sweeney has been unafraid to take on tech industry giants. |
Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture |
Greg Mankiw, Greg Mankiw Governments are spending a lot. |
Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund A truth that applies to many fields, which can frustrate some as much as it energizes others, is that the person who tells the most compelling story wins. Not who has the best idea, or the right answer. Just whoever tells a story that catches people's attention and gets them to nod their heads. |
Casey Taylor, Vox How shopping for everything from in-demand sneakers to Funko Pop! figures got so competitive. |
Jon, Novel Investor The key to the pendulum analogy is to be aware of the risks and behavior that come with stock market extremes and that those excesses revert. |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense Japan was the bubble that defines all bubbles. |
Climateer, Climateer Investing A very clear-eyed analysis by Deutsche Bank's automotive, climate policy, energy, transportation and German manufacturing analyst, Eric Heymann. |
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