07/23/2021
Today
Beau Draghiciu, Worth Brazilian mega retailer Magazine Luiza—known in its home country simply as Magalu—is pioneering a new type of shopping, s-commerce. |
Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC.com Bezos took things to new heights by thanking Amazon workers for paying for his space flight. People were not impressed. |
Charles Cooke, National Review Extremely rich people have precisely no obligation to consider how you would use their property if you were in their position. |
Bernard Sharfman & Marc Moore, RCM In a new article, Liberating the Market for Corporate Control, we recommend that state corporate law statutes be amended to include a safe harbor for hostile bidders who make all-cash, all-shares tender offers that include a guarantee of the same or higher price if a back-end or squeeze-out merger occurs. Thus, in the face of a non-coercive hostile bid, a board cannot use takeover defenses, such as a poison pill or other statutory defense, unless specifically provided for in the corporate charter. In this way, if the board and shareholders agree, a company can always use private ordering to... |
Gary Dushnitsky & Daniel Sokol, The Hill If proposed legislation becomes law, it will foreclose many merger and acquisition exits and thus lessen the incentives for founding and growing a business. |
Maurie Backman, Motley Fool You could earn much better returns in a Roth IRA than with a savings account, especially given today's interest rates. Here are the pros and cons. |
Paul Krugman, New York Times Why is the G.O.P. objectively pro-tax evasion? |
Brian Riedl, The Dispatch The Democrats are poised for the largest permanent expansion of government in at least half a century. |
Editorial, The Washington Times After Richard Nixon resigned, many pundits pronounced the Republican Party finished. Instead, by a careful recalibration and transformation under Ronald Reagan into the party of limited government, the GOP regained control of the White House in six years and earned a congressional majority in 20. |
Cindy Adams, New York Post You want to be a part of it New York, New York. Greatest city on Earth . . . capital of the world . . . center of civilization's gravity . . . and we're turning into Al Capone's Chicago. But we're … |
Joakim Book, American Institute for Economic Research "If you think science is when people of authority agree, you're not just naïve but heavily deluded. Stop venerating science in the singular and start embracing its core, plural, and contentious ethos: that plenty of people are wrong about almost everything, all the time. Even – perhaps... |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments With more coins circulating and regulation on the horizon, here is the lowdown on three main digital currency arenas. |
Jeffrey Kleintop, Charles Schwab COVID-19 resurgences appear to be the primary driver of moves across many markets this year. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Financial Network According to NBER, the COVID recession is over. But is it? Commonwealth CIO Brad McMillan weighs in. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Neil Irwin, New York Times The economy is a riddle, but clearly it's having a harder time rebooting itself than had seemed possible in the spring. |
Chris Taylor, Reuters In this manic era of meme stocks, cryptocurrencies and real-estate bidding wars, studying the history of financial markets might seem a little dry and old-fashioned. Except to Jeremy Grantham. |
Sandeep Vaheesan, The American Prospect So it can't buy off competitors to keep prices high |
John H. Cochrane, Project Syndicate The idea that climate change poses a threat to the financial system is absurd, not least because everyone already knows that global warming is happening and that fossil fuels are being phased out. The new push for climate-related financial regulation is not really about risk; it is about a political agenda. |
Susan Dziubinski, Morningstar These undervalued wide- and narrow-moat names were recently added to the Morningstar Global Markets ex-US Moat Focus Index. |
Howard Davies, The Guardian Central bank policies have enriched the wealthy – bold politicians must start redistributing wealth |
Emily Stewart, Vox Olympic athletes are the stars of the show. Why aren't they paid like it? |
Pete Buttigieg & Marty Walsh, CNN If you have walked into a store and seen items missing, or wondered why home improvement contractors are backed up, or found your business waiting for vital orders -- then you have witnessed just some of the effects of America's challenges with truck driver capacity. |
Richard Ebeling, AIER "If Joe Biden's Executive Order is fully implemented we will be that much closer to a comprehensively managed economy, with nothing done by any private enterprise free from the intrusive hand of government. Welcome to President Biden's Orwellian newspeak – 'freedom of enterprise' really means... |
Eduardo Porter, New York Times The sharp rebound in hiring, especially in service industries, is widening opportunities and prompting employers to compete on pay. |
Geoff Williams, U.S. News & World Report It would be easy to assume that it's rare to encounter counterfeit money. After all, plenty of people rely on credit and debit cards and even cryptocurrency, and go long stretches of time without touching a dollar bill or quarter. |
Samuel Gregg, Law & Liberty The gold standard's history reminds us that not every economic challenge demands a centralized political solution. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Robert Gast, Scientific American Researchers are taking a closer look at this science-fiction staple—and bringing the idea a little closer to reality |
macromon, Global Macro Monitor What if bonds rally on technical issues and everyone takes it as a real signal? |
Ben Carlson, AWOCS Interest rates have impacted the housing market but emotions have a bigger impact. |
Christine Benz, Morningstar Grant us investors the wisdom to know the difference. |
John Lim, HumbleDollar ARE THERE TIMES when a near 100% international stock allocation makes sense? I believe there are—and that today is just such a moment. |
Paul Benjamin Osterlund, Rest of World How a baby faced CEO turned a Farmville clone into a massive ponzi scheme. |
Veronique de Rugy, Reason As inflation increases, we need a low-debt environment. |
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