04/06/2021
Today Mark Whittington, The Hill Sen. Sanders could not be clearer in his desire to tax away all of the resources Elon Musk and others are using to build and fly rockets and instead apply them to social problems. |
Umair Irfan, Vox His infrastructure plan calls for more EV chargers, incentives for buyers, and more US manufacturing. |
Gary Marshall, RealClearMarkets MMT has emerged in recent times as a supposedly feasible alternative to modern economic conventions, some proclaiming it as the answer to our economic ills. Conceded or not, what MMTers advocate is what every Marxist, socialist, or big government adherent relishes - a further loosening of the unwieldy, insatiable government beast from its financial moorings - in effect, a Soviet style monetary system and its unproductive, squandering sham of an economy. The mystical tenets of MMT are partially plausible and partially absurd. MMT is essentially Keynesian economics with a frightening twist. The... |
Paul Krugman, NYT Investments in the future don't always involve concrete. |
Joseph Calhoun, Alhambra Investments There's an old saying on Wall Street that one should "buy the rumor, sell the news", a pithy way to express the efficient market theorem. By the time an event arrives, whatever it may be, the market will have fully digested the news and incorporated it into current prices. And then the market will move |
Diane Mtetwa, Motley Fool If you're behind, here are three ways to catch up. |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments Chinese stocks' correction seems like a short-term hiccup. |
David Goldman, Law & Liberty The lagging growth of productivity despite enormous advances in information technology remains the great conundrum of economic life in the West during the past 20 years. This is the most urgent issue of our time. Disappointing productivity growth translates into substandard growth in household income and the marginalization of once-prosperous parts of the American population. […] |
Donald Boudreaux, AIER "When one weighs whatever is the quantum of tyranny that might realistically be ascribed to Trump against the quanta of tyranny that infest and fuel Covid lockdowns, mask mandates, school closures, and the Covid hysteria still being stirred up by government officials, the tyranny of the... |
John Tamny, RCM Imagine if one year ago U.S. states had been left free to craft fifty different responses to the rapidly spreading coronavirus. If so, it's not unreasonable to speculate that lockdowns, to the extent that they were imposed, would have been lifted with great rapidity. But wait, some will say, states were already autonomous. |
Sanjai Bhagat, Harvard Business Review And how to fix them. |
Chris Baecker, RealClearMarkets I like my councilwoman. In the Facebook videos I've seen, and firsthand in the candidate forums we've participated in, she seems like a genuinely nice lady. It's what she does within city council chambers that gives me pause. We have some fundamental, philosophical differences of opinion. |
Ryan Detrick, LPL Financial Research Monday, April 5, 2021 Top Story Raising Forecasts…Again |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Jeffrey Kleintop, Charles Schwab Policymakers in major economies have pointed to 2023 as the date the stimulus payback may begin. |
Ryan Detrick, LPL Financial Research Market Blog Wednesday, March 31, 2021 |
Matthew Luzzetti, Deutsche Bank Group |
Ryan Detrick, LPL Financial Research Market Blog Tuesday, March 30, 2021 |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Brian Riedl, The Dispatch It sets aside $400 billion for long-term health care for the elderly but only $115 billion for roads, highways, and bridges. |
Anna North, Vox America's child care system is broken. But Biden isn't tackling it — yet. |
Editorial, NYT Many homeowners are paying a total of billions of dollars extra because of inequities in assessing property values. |
Charles Gasparino, New York Post The full postmortem on Archegos Capital won't be written for a while, but one thing is already clear: This little-known hedge fund run by a trader named Bill Hwang has become the latest lightning r… |
Joseph Chamie, The Hill Resolving America's retirement riddle is needed due to Social Security's long-term financing problem — Social Security trust funds are projected to be insolvent by 2035. |
Trish Regan, American Consequences Biden's unleashing his $2 trillion "American Rescue Plan." But this isn't the New Deal -- it's a raw one for U.S. taxpayers and corporations. |
Richard Gunderman, Law & Liberty Richard Gunderman argues for understanding marriage as a covenant not a contract. |
Christopher Barnard, Am Institute for Economic Research "Protecting our environment deserves more attention than a prefix in a campaign slogan for a complete political and economic revolution. Especially one that has caused so much untold misery for both humans and the planet." ~ Christopher Barnard |
Kenneth Rogoff, Project Syndicate Today, it seems to be an article of faith among US policymakers and many economists that the world's appetite for dollar debt is virtually insatiable. But a modernization of China's exchange-rate arrangements could deal the dollar's status a painful blow. |
Jerusalem Demsas, Vox As Lorde said: "We live in cities." |
Susan Dziubinski, Morningstar Here's a peek at the cheapest constituents of the Morningstar Wide Moat Focus Index--as well as names that have been added and cut. |
Derek Thompson, The Atlantic mRNA's story likely will not end with COVID-19: Its potential stretches far beyond this pandemic. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Lakshman Achuthan, CNN Presidents typically get too much credit -- or blame -- for the US economy's current performance, while the unseen drivers of the economic cycle get way too little. |
Noah Smith, Noahpinion It's the end of the Age of Reagan, but it's much more than that |
Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture The dollar's demise has been predicted repeatedly and it just isn't happening. |
David Merkel, The Aleph Blog The risk of stocks is very different than bonds. |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense Since the advent of each index in 1979, the Russell 1000 Growth and Value Indexes have nearly identical annual returns through March 2021 -- 12.1% for growth and 12.0% for value. But the path to get there was very different. |
Billy Binion, Reason We don't need Biden's 21st century 'New Deal' to rebound. |
Preston Caldwell, MStar Consumers are ready to spend. |
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