11/03/2021
Today
Therese Poletti, MarketWatch Zillow Group had a wealth of data, access to millions in capital and executives with the hubris to believe they could use these tools to outsmart both a... |
Matthew Homer & Paul Watkins, RCM The President's Working Group Report on Stablecoins is an important first step for federal regulators to develop a regulatory approach. Unfortunately, the report is a slap in the face to state regulators as it ignores their years of regulatory experience. The Report rests on the assumption that stablecoins are unregulated. This opinion appears widely shared in Washington DC, and has been expressed by Federal Reserve Chairman Powell, Treasury Secretary Yellen, and SEC Chair Gensler. In commenting on the Report the Acting Comptroller of the OCC, Michael Hsu, describes stablecoins as an... |
Corbin Barthold, Law & Liberty Corbin K. Barthold describes how the FTC has been transformed under Lina Khan and how this might be an opportunity for conservatives. |
Paul Krugman, NYT Somehow, wealth beyond imagining isn't enough. |
Reuven Brenner, RealClearMarkets The media has been one of those institutions that in the past in the past was referred to as the "Fourth Estate" presumably because it was hold holding political and other institutions accountable. Many now accuse the press, Hollywood and academia of complacency in this regard; of having lost their way, and being on the "left." In one of his essays, George Bernard Shaw gave a completely different take on such a turn of events where he raised the question: "Have you ever wondered why I am a Communist?" His answer was: "Well, it is largely because of my sense of the great importance of... |
Nicole Gelinas, CJ More and more New Yorkers find noise a threat to livability. |
Kim Iskyan, AC The World Bank allowed the need to appease China to trump the objectivity of their findings, further eroding the public trust. |
Steve Moore, Washington Examiner A good friend who owns a major auto dealership in the Dallas area recently told me he typically has about 500 to 1,000 cars and trucks on his lot. Now, he has 15. That's how severe the supply chain problem has become. |
Andrew Wilford, RCM Eliminating the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap was always the worst of Democrats' ideas for the long-awaited reconciliation package. While ideas like a billionaires' tax, letting the IRS snoop on regular Americans' bank accounts, and massive corporate and capital gains tax hikes are all awful, eliminating the SALT cap had the unique distinction ofactively working against the stated progressive goal of addressing wealth inequality. When crunch time came and Democrats had to figure out what their reconciliation package could realistically include, it should have been the first thing... |
Charles Gasparino, NYP The revolving door between Washington and Wall Street always stirs passionate objections from progressive good-governance groups — except, it appears, when it involves corporate wokeism. |
Tiffany Li, MSNBC.com Regardless of what name it goes by, the company formerly known as Facebook has many problems it must fix. |
James Hanley, Am. Institute for Economic Research "If we have decided to transition to clean energy for environmental reasons, then we should hope for clean energy that requires fewer jobs. That would be a real benefit." ~ James E. Hanley |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors Investors will be focused on the Federal Reserve this week and our expectation is that it will finally announce an overdue tapering of quantitative easing. In addition, we expect Chairman Jerome Powell to make it clear in the press conference that he expects tapering to be completed by mid-2022.Inflation is clearly a problem. The CPI is up 5.4% from a year ago. When October data arrive the year-ago comparison will likely be 5.7%, the largest increase since the early 1990s. Some of this is "transitory," but not all of it, not by a long shot. Housing rents were held down artificially until... |
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Randy Frederick, Charles Schwab Help protect your position. Stop orders may help you obtain a predetermined entry or exit price, limit a loss, or lock in a profit. |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments In which we look at Q3 GDP and October inflation. |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Jerry Bowyer, VF There are lots of ways to classify stocks in various indices, but today let's look at them according to size, and their performance during high inflation. |
David Kastner, Charles Schwab Sectors tend to have different reactions to sustained inflation. |
Rani Molla, Vox Service workers are getting paid more than ever. It's not enough. |
Michael Bernick, Forbes The "Great Resignation" is a main narrative today, with worker shortages. The 1976 movie, Lifeguard, now streaming on Amazon Prime, is a starting point for how to address these shortages. |
Emily Brandon, U.S. News The new year is an excellent time to start saving a little bit more for retirement. Preparing for retirement doesn't have to be a chore. A few small changes can result in a much bigger retirement account balance, given enough time to compound. |
Roy Furchgott, New York Times The key to its revival may be a breakthrough in creating a quieter sonic boom. The challenges, though, are significant. |
Günter Kampf, Brownstone Institute Some politicians speak about the "pandemic of the unvaccinated." Social cohesion should not be jeopardized over narrow and erroneous views. |
Editorial, The Examiner Joe Biden had one job. He inherited a rapidly recovering economy and three approved vaccines for the novel coronavirus. All he had to do was sit back and watch his presidency succeed. |
Steve Benen, MSNBC.com Marco Rubio intends to champion the interests of working people by steering business leaders away from "woke" corporate values. That won't work. |
Editorial, New York Post Oy: It turns out the child-care provisions of the latest version of President Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" bill would utterly slam the middle class. |
Michael Tanner, Cato Given the political pressure that progressives in particular are sure to bring to restore the measure before the plan comes to a vote, it's not entirely certain that the measure is dead. That's why it's important to understand why paid leave — as attractive as it may sound — could actually do more harm than good. |
Karol Markowicz, New York Post With all the other problems in the country, is it time for an all-encompassing strategy on fixing a fictional gender inequality problem? |
Paul Krugman, New York Times Shortages and inflation aren't uniquely American problems. |
Pat O'Hare, Briefing.com The Treasury market is a bit of a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma these days. We say that knowing that there has been a rampant repetition from corporate America about supply chain pressures, rising input costs, labor shortages, and price increases to help offset the higher costs of doing business. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
John Cochrane, The Grumpy Economist The institutions of civil society are now thoroughly politicized. |
Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias In a future of online college classes (and tests), will we still have the same size colleges, or will much larger platforms take over? |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar Buying the fund industry's winners sure beats the alternative. |
Andrea O'Sullivan, Reason A good way to know you're living through high inflation is when you're discouraged from talking about it. |
Cheyenne Ligon, CoinDesk At the center of the case: the potential ownership of 1.1 million BTC. |
Nick Maggiulli, Of Dollars And Data On FOMO in the crypto world and why decentralization and the Metaverse will change the world less than we think. |
Jesse Walker, Reason Happy 50th birthday to Muswell Hillbillies, a concept album about nostalgia, conformity, and the evils of urban renewal programs. |
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