10/09/2021
Today Editorial, Washington Examiner One would think that with his approval ratings in free fall, including his ratings on the handling of the economy, that President Joe Biden would be looking for every opportunity to stimulate the American economy. |
Jacob Lew, CNN Business Congress must act quickly to significantly extend or raise the debt ceiling for the long term, so that our nation does not lurch from crisis to crisis. |
Rebecca L. Spang, The Atlantic For political reasons, powerful people don't want the country to pay its bills. History shows all that could go wrong. |
Victoria Guida, Politico Former Federal Reserve economist Claudia Sahm sounds off on sparring with Larry Summers, Biden's blunder and the case for reappointing Jay Powell to the Fed. |
Schmidt and Bain, Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- The joke in Washington is that Gary Gensler could inspire his own version of the game, "Drink Every Time..." Most Read from BloombergNYC's Waldorf Gets Plush Renovation, Becomes Icon of China's OverreachTycoon Behind a Crisis-Era Property Crash Now Sits on a $9 Billion Debt MountainBefore Interstates, America Got Around on InterurbansHow Singapore's $50 Billion Financial District Will Change After Covid-19Amazon Delivery Partners Rage Against the Machines: 'We Were Treated Like Ro |
Lauricella & Norton, Morningstar Zuckerberg has veto power over investors thanks to Facebook's share class structure. |
Shoshana Wodinsky, Gizmodo When Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went through a six-hour outage on Monday, your immediate reaction was probably based on two things: where you live, and where your family lives. |
Charles Miller, NRO Treating the search giant as a common carrier is a reasonable solution for Ohio. |
Christy Bieber, MF Your finances could be affected if you aren't prepared for them. |
Kevin Erdmann, The Hill It is well past time to give Americans more freedom to build and own homes where they want, lend to whom they want and buy lunch from whom they want. |
Nick Romeo, The New Yorker In the nineteen-forties, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was considering adopting a new economics textbook, the school's president received warnings about the book's author: "It is perfectly obvious that the young man is socially-minded if not strictly communistic," one correspondent wrote. The young man in question was the American economist Paul Samuelson, a future Nobel laureate. Samuelson's textbook "Economics," published in 1948, would dominate the market for nearly half a century; it introduced a Keynesian vision—in which government would take a more active role in... |
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. |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles Schwab Cryptocurrency can yield big gains, but equally big losses. |
Drumetz Françoise & Pfister Christian, Banque de France In the last few years in the U.S. and especially since the publication of Stephanie Kelton's book, The Deficit Myth (Kelton, 2020) in Europe, the so-called Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has been gaining prominence in the media and the public. This paper exposes the main proposals of MMT in the light of their doctrinal sources, also confronting them with economic facts and with other currents of economic thought. |
Robin Powell, TEBI Like many other investors, you may be worried about inflation, but the best strategy is probably to stay invested and focus on your long-term goals. |
Richard M. Ebeling, AIER What is needed is a repeal of government regulations and restrictions, ending any and all government control over consumption and production, lowering taxes, the end to budget deficits, and working with a balanced budget. |
David Runciman, LROB Peter thiel is known for so many different things it can be hard to keep up. |
Steven Hill, Project Syndicate The free market has never been a free-for-all, yet tech companies have long operated with few constraints on their business models. Perhaps the latest Facebook scandal will finally provide the impetus governments need to take effective action – beginning with the implementation of digital operating permits. |
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. |
Neil Irwin, New York Times They fell far short of analyst expectations, but they reflect a steady expansion that is more rapid than other recent recoveries. |
Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker Amid an escalating crisis, the power source offers a dream—or a pipe dream—of limitless clean energy. |
Mark Harris, TechCrunch An environmental document that needs U.S. Federal Aviation Administration approval before SpaceX can begin testing the world's largest rockets is missing key details about where its fuel will come from, experts say. |
Daniel Gros, Project Syndicate Central banks become concerned, and usually start tightening policy, when higher inflation fuels higher inflation expectations among consumers. Current trends suggest that US policymakers have more to worry about than their European counterparts. |
Alicia McElhaney, II New research shows that keeping employees happy not only helps the employees, it helps the company, too. |
Susan Dziubinski, Morningstar Here are our analysts' top ideas in each sector for the coming quarter. |
Dion Rabouin, Vox Everyone's saving money, but no one is earning much interest. |
Farah Nayeri, New York Times Two economic experts from two different nations agree that the pandemic has altered the world's economy and brought capitalism and its power into question. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Eleanor Cummins, Wired It's time to reevaluate the cost of death care—and its environmental impact. |
David Merkel, The Aleph Blog I like anything that hinders the US Government from borrowing more. |
Eric Boehm, Reason What Reagan's tariffs in the '80s can teach us about today's foreign-made semiconductors |
Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund Extremes lead to extremes |
Daron Acemoglu, Project Syndicate While it is clear that cryptocurrencies are here to stay, it remains to be seen what economic role they will – or should – play. In the case of Bitcoin, the technology's success lies entirely in what it promises, rather than in what it can actually deliver. |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense Money most certainly does not buy happiness. |
Mike Lee & David Schweikert, City Journal A runaway environmental-review process bogs down improvement projects, stifling innovation and impeding clean-energy development. |
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