07/28/2021
Today Jeffrey Tucker, RCM The crazy, convoluted, mixed up messaging from the CDC - it's been this way from the beginning of the pandemic until now - has taken yet another turn. Now the CDC is recommending masks not just for the unvaccinated but for the vaccinated too. This is supposedly because of the discovery that the variant known as Delta is making an end-run around the vaccines, causing not only infections but infectious spread. So we have an odd situation developing. The layperson's understanding of a vaccine is that it protects a person against infection, like measles or smallpox. In other words, you won't get... |
Michael Cohen, MSNBC America has a long history of requiring vaccinations. Why so much resistance when it comes to Covid? |
Adam Creighton, Am. Inst. for Econ. Research "We should learn from this episode, though. Worse pandemics will emerge, perhaps even where some tough restrictions are justified. But we need to learn how to fight pandemics without permanently altering our way of life." ~ Adam Creighton |
Henry Grabar, Slate Six reasons why cities and states have done a poor job getting the money out the door. |
Josh Withrow, Examiner "Break up Big Tech" seems to have become a dogmatic mantra for Republicans. |
Heather Long & Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post States that scaled back unemployment aid have seen a decline in teen employment and an increase in workers over 25, early evidence has found. |
Panna Sharma, RealClearMarkets The world of big data in the healthcare sector is vast and growing exponentially. Tools that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are critical to organizing, correlating, making sense of, and generating useful discoveries from this avalanche of healthcare and medical data. Analysts suggest that 30% of the world's data now comes from healthcare and this is growing faster than any other industry, with a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 36%. In genomics and biomarker-driven drug development, the growth rate of data is even higher, with analysts suggesting that it... |
Robert Lighthizer, New York Times Building up domestic manufacturing and innovation is important. But we also need tariffs, long an effective tool of economic policy. |
Paul La Monica, CNN Chip giant Nvidia is the ninth-most valuable company in the S&P 500. With a market capitalization of almost $500 billion, the company is now worth nearly as much as semiconductor rivals Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and Qualcomm — combined. Could Nvidia soon wind up listed on the venerable Dow, too? |
Thomas Kirchner, Camelot We have come a long way since Morningstar first introduced a long/short category in 2006. Mutual funds that used shorting had been around since the 1980s, but had been lumped in with traditional style boxes. This led many in the hedge fund industry to make the false claim that mutual funds were not allowed to sell short - a powerful, albeit completely false marketing argument. |
Kim Velsey, New York It's eclipsed One57, where apartments are selling at a loss. |
Paul Roderick Gregory, Hoover The US-German decision not to block Nord Stream 2 pipeline clears the way for Putin to tighten his grip on Ukraine and defy Europe. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Mike Brown, Breeze New research from Breeze found many employees would sacrifice some of the best benefits, or even take pay cuts, to remain remote. |
Ryan Detrick & Jeffrey Buchbinder, Realclear |
Russell Redenbaugh & James Juliano, Kairos Capital Management |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Liz Ann Sonders & Jeffrey Kleintop & Kathy Jones, Charles Schwab The spread of the COVID-19 delta variant has raised concerns of a faster-than-expected slowdown. |
Jeffrey Kleintop, Charles Schwab COVID-19 resurgences appear to be the primary driver of moves across many markets this year. |
Nelson Schwartz & Coral Murphy Marcos, NYT A generation gap has emerged between them and colleagues who value the workplace over the advantages of remote work. Bridging it may require flexibility. |
Dan Proft, Dan Proft Show John Tamny's contrarian look at oil and the dollar. |
Steve Sjuggerud, American Consequences While the CPI doesn't lie, America's rising prices aren't necessarily forever – our nation's inflation may be more temporary than runaway. |
Brian Reardon, Washington Examiner The Senate needs to decide how to pay for the massive $3.5 trillion spending plan announced this month, but according to a Punchbowl News poll, only 37% of congressional staffers believe it is likely Congress will pass a tax bill by the end of 2022. Among Democratic staffers, just half think it is likely. |
Matt Egan, CNN Home prices are climbing at the fastest pace in history, eclipsing even the boom in the days leading up to the Great Recession. Bidding wars have become common, many are forced to pay all cash and some bids are coming in $1 million over asking. |
Michael Bernick, Forbes Last week's "60 Minutes" report, like most media reports on employment for adults with disabilities, gives little attention to the severely impacted--those with little language or severe cognitive deficits. Isn't there a place in the job world for them? |
Lee Trepanier, Law & Liberty Anthony Gill explains why Pope Francis' decision to ban the Latin Mass weakens the Roman Catholic Church. |
Lyndon Haviland, The Hill The decision to remove the mask bans was hailed by most Americans, yet many public health experts were concerned the move was premature. |
Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Maybe you have a natural affinity for making and managing money. Or maybe you're just trying not to make a hash of it. Either way, someone at some point in your life likely dropped a pearl of wisdom in your lap that has made your financial life better than it would have been otherwise. |
Chris Talgo, The Hill So, showering the economy with $6 trillion in new spending (the price tag of Biden's Build Back Better plan) will lead to lower prices? That is utter nonsense. |
Dan Alexander, Forbes Tom Vilsack went straight from Obama's cabinet to a big-money position at a trade organization. Then he won the lottery (literally). |
Salena Zito, New York Post One street in a Pittsburgh neighborhood illustrates the crisis faced by small businesses in the US. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar Wage disparity is only half the story. |
Rohit, Strange Loop Canon We should radically scale genius grants |
Marc Rubinstein, Net Interest The biggest issuer of dollar denominated Chinese junk bonds is in trouble.. |
Howard Lindzon, Howard Lindzon What a mess for those that are focused on emerging markets. |
Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes After promising to sell nearly everything he owned last year including six mansions in California, Tesla's billionaire CEO has taken up residence in a studio-apartment sized rental – here's what it looks like inside and out. |
Pam Martens, Wall St. On Parade What happened on July 20 with the 56-44 vote in the Senate to confirm Kenneth Polite (pronounced Po-leet) to head the most powerful criminal law enforcement office in the United States, the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, is a cautionary tale that should concern every American. |
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