10/12/2021
Today
John Tamny, American Consequences If the Fed were omnipotent, FANNG stocks wouldn't exist and you'd be streaming on Blockbuster and tightly holding onto your AOL shares. |
Emily Stewart, Vox Think you're investing ethically? You might be surprised. |
Hester Peirce, CNN Investor protection means enforcing antifraud and disclosure rules, but it also means protecting an investor's right to make investment decisions for herself, to take risks and to use the latest technology to trade and invest. |
Joseph Calhoun, Alhambra Bonds sold off again last week with the yield on the 10-year Treasury closing over 1.6% for the first time since early June. The yield is now down just 16 basis points from the high of 1.76% set on March 30. But this rise in rates is at least a little different than |
Bethany Mandel, New York Post 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help." Ronald Reagan called them the nine most terrifying words in the English language. |
Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post The effects of covid are all over this report. |
Samuel Gregg, Law & Liberty Samuel Gregg reviews Vivek Ramaswam's Woke, Inc. about woke capitalism and how it hurts American business and politics. |
Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine The Florida Republican gives a master class in political philosophy. |
Aaron Mak, Slate They're not worried about harms to teens. They're worried about their traffic. |
David Clement, RCM British showman and comedian John Oliver, known for his punchy and thorough rants on public policy, has set his sights on a new target: man made chemicals, known as PFAS. In his now viral rant, Oliver explains how PFAS chemicals are problematic for human health and wants all of these chemicals to be declared hazardous by law. This is, in fact, what Congress is attempting to do via the PFAS Action Act, which has passed the House and is waiting for a final vote in the Senate. |
Christy Bieber, Motley Fool A seven-figure net worth is in reach in the long run if you begin investing $737 a month – or about 15% of your income – starting at age 37. |
Donald Boudreaux, AIER "Only someone who is convinced that government will undertake only economically worthwhile projects regardless of the means of financing – or someone who doesn't understand economics – can look favorably upon deficit financing by government." ~ Donald J. Boudreaux |
Hayden Adams, Charles Schwab The IRS allows taxpayers various tax deductions for investment-related expenses if those expenses are related to producing taxable investment income. Do your expenses qualify? |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab September's end brought some key winning streaks to an end courtesy of elevated risks associated with myriad economic, inflation and policy related uncertainties. |
Duncan Weldon, Value Added Inflation is the biggest debate in macro. The models don't work. |
Ironman, Political Calculations September 2021 closed out a strong quarter for dividend paying stocks in the U.S. stock market. |
Neil Shearing, Capital Economics Fuel shortages, tax increases and a whiff of stagflation have prompted comparisons between the economic situation today and that of the 1970s. But for the UK at least, the similarities with the period immediately following the Second World War are arguably more striking. |
Editorial, NYS Now that Congress has kicked the debt ceiling down the road a few months, what of the idea of minting a $1 trillion coin made of platinum? Supposedly our leaders would smelt this trillion dollar slug from a bit of platinum and deposit it at the |
Dylan Matthews, Vox Let us now praise Beowulf, perhaps the most influential blog commenter of all time. |
Paul Brown, New York Times You don't need a lot of mutual funds or exchange-traded funds to build a solid portfolio. |
Dan Alexander, Forbes Trump's fortune plunged at the outset of the pandemic, but unlike the overall stock market, his real estate empire hasn't come roaring back. |
Paul La Monica, CNN Corporate profits soared in the first half of this year, largely because of favorable comparisons to last year's weak earnings. The Covid shutdown of the economy hit major companies hard in the first half of 2020. |
Jonathan Turley, The Hill We may want to consider what we would lose in this Faustian free-speech bargain. |
Eric Spitznagel, New York Post Experts weigh in on what governments can — and should do — about Facebook, and how to learn from the past. |
Ja'han Jones, MSNBC.com The news surrounding AT&T, Facebook, the Pandora Papers and the stalemate in Congress has me ready to eat the rich. |
David Runciman, LROB Peter thiel is known for so many different things it can be hard to keep up. |
Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture These days, the labor market is even more unusually dynamic than usual. It is not an exaggeration to suggest it is in the midst of a radical transformation. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Jamie Catherwood, Investor Amnesia Throughout history, states and sovereign entities have utilized debt as a mechanism for control and influence, wielding the financial instrument like another weapon in their arsenal. |
Eddy Elfenbein, Crossing Wall Street Sometimes American history can be downright surreal. |
Matthew C. Klein, The Overshoot Four quick thoughts on what looks like unpleasant news |
Mike Harris, Price Action Lab Retails traders have a significant advantage over small to medium size funds: they have more freedom to adjust risk and trade a wide variety of strategies and products. |
Jeanne Sahadi, CNN If you don't have a four-year college degree, you're hardly alone. The majority of US working age adults do not. |
Aleh Tsyvinski, Project Syndicate This "mainstreaming" of blockchain applications marks the end of the first stage of the technology's development. Now, with the help of regulators in a range of countries, cryptocurrency is entering the next phase of its evolution: becoming an investable asset. |
Jennifer Liu, CNBC Zoom, which ranked No. 1 for happiest employees in 2019 and 2020, slipped in this year's ranking. |
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