07/05/2021
Today Ryan Fazio, New York Post Why do many of us often think what we have here — wealth, freedom and safety — is normal in the course of human history or even in the world today? |
Astra Taylor, NYT The American dream used to be owning a home with a white picket fence, but now it is getting out of debt. |
John Tamny, Forbes The most effective way to reverse the Chinese Communist Party's errors vis-à-vis the Uighurs and Hong Kong would be to remain as economically and personally free as possible. |
Jerry Haar, The Hill If the U.S. is to have an HSR system, there are three ways for Congress to get private capital off the sidelines and into the game. |
Paul La Monica, CNN Stocks enjoyed a stellar first half of the year. But will the market be able to keep rallying? |
Reuven Brenner, AT This is the concluding article of a three-part series. Part 1 was When the US risks being leapfrogged, and Part 2 was How the US R&D model was weakened. Part 2 of this series showed that with t… |
Adam Chodorow, Slate The company allegedly went to incredible lengths to avoid paying taxes on a top employee's compensation. |
Jeffrey Tucker, RCM "Endemicity" is not a word that rolls off the vernacular tongue. Stil, its new prominence in the halls of governments around the world is a huge ray of hope. It means that governments have at long last begun to regard the pathogen as potentially a manageable part of our world. The word endemic is a contrast to pandemic. A new virus of the sort we've been through moves from the pandemic stage to a manageable stage - and so it has been for all of history. And by manageable, epidemiologists do not mean: does not exist. It means it is dealt with through therapeutics, natural immunity, and... |
Jeff Deist, Mises Institute Financial journalist John Tamny has written the definitive book on the disastrous political mismanagement of Covid-19—and the resulting (still unfolding) calamities. |
Alfredo Ortiz, Examiner Last Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer filed cloture on the nomination of Julie Su, California's top labor official, to become President Joe Biden's deputy secretary of labor. |
Zack Beauchamp, Vox How culture wars and the diploma divide are pushing corporate America and the GOP apart. |
Jessica Guynn, USA Today No need to check his 401k or social security before retiring. Jeff Bezos, who steps down Monday as Amazon's CEO, is the world's richest person. |
Liz Ann Sonders, Schwab Inflationary bottleneck pressures tied to the economic reopening are fading; and as suggested by the bond market and wages, a return to hyperinflation is unlikely. |
Various, Self Cities in the U.S. with the largest minority wage gap |
Wayne Crews, Competitive Enterprise Institute |
Russell Redenbaugh & James Juliano, Kairos Capital Management |
Rob Arnott, Vitali Kalesnik & Lillian Wu, Research Affiliates Tesla entered the S&P 500 Index on December 21, 2020. Over the next six months, AIV, the stock deleted to make way for TSLA, outperformed TSLA by a stupendous margin—exactly as we expected, based on our research. Index rebalances impose a variety of costs on investors. Smarter index design could go far to mitigate these costs. |
Michael Iachini, Charles Schwab An index ETF-only portfolio can be a straightforward yet flexible investment solution. |
Nouriel Roubini, Project Syndicate Years of ultra-loose fiscal and monetary policies have put the global economy on track for a slow-motion train wreck in the coming years. When the crash comes, the stagflation of the 1970s will be combined with the spiraling debt crises of the post-2008 era, leaving major central banks in an impossible position. |
Katherine Lynch, Morningstar Bond markets recover and stocks post broad gains. |
Jeff Sommer, NYT Consumers, economists and bond traders often attempt to forecast inflation, but we really are walking in the dark. |
Safal Niveshak, Safal Niveshak His best investment broke all the rules he laid out in The Intelligent Investor. |
Bryce Coward, Knowledge Leaders The ever-important payroll report came in ahead of expectations for June, but will ultimately do little to sway policy in toward the hawkish faction of the Federal Reserve Board. |
Daniel Hemel, The Atlantic The indictments of the business and its CFO allege not some minor technical mistakes, but blatant violations of the law. |
Brett Arends, MarketWatch When it came to retirement planning, the former New York Met did three things right. |
Ironman, Political Calculations Going by the U.S. stock market's dividends, both June 2021 and the second quarter of 2021 registered robust growth. |
Mebane Faber, Meb Faber Research When's the last time you made 100X on an investment? Not 100% on your initial investment, 100 times your initial investment. That means you sink $10,000 into an investment and pull out a cool $1,000,000…for many investors this could be a life-changing outcome. |
Joshua M Brown, The Reformed Broker The finish line isn't the thing, it's the route we take to get there and the milestones we celebrate along the way. |
Jamie Powell, FT Alphaville Growth is not confined to a few names at the top. |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense If you dig into the components of the consumer price index, you'll notice housing makes up a big part of the government's inflation calculation.The latest data from the BLS shows owners' equivalen |
Matt Welch, Reason Nice Racism—and the "anti-racism" consulting business—rakes in the bucks while losing hearts and minds. |
Andrew Liszewski, Gizmodo I'm not willing to jump through all the hoops needed to make my home barely smarter. |
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