10/16/2021
Today
Steve Malanga, City Journal As businesses struggle to fill job openings, Biden touts the advantages of worker shortages. |
Katia Dmitrieva & Jill Shaw, BusinessWeek Too few hours, too little pay, and too few protections from Covid are keeping many at home. |
Mike Konczal, The Nation Critics of the American Rescue Plan made two dire predictions. Both proved wrong. |
Paul Krugman, New York Times Since the pandemic's start, Americans seem to be rethinking their lives. |
Alexander Salter, AIER Let's keep our eye on the supply side. We should be making every effort, policy-wise, to ease restrictions on production and exchange. That will help both in the short run and the long run. |
Seth Berenzweig & John Tamny, The Capitol Brief Capitol Brief with legal analyst Seth Berenzweig and RealClearMarkets author John Tamny |
Tim Ryan Williams, Vox It's not always clear what the public wants. But a new poll shows strong support for taxing the rich to pay for Democrats' Build Back Better Act. |
Catherine Rampell, WaPo If you think opposition to "big government" is high now, imagine the blowback after months of coverage about expensive, incompetently executed safety-net expansions. |
Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch A proposed fund focuses on betting, alcohol and drug (B.A.D.) companies. |
David Hay, Evergreen Gavekal This is part two of our discourse regarding green energy and its profound – and somewhat misunderstood - impact on the global economy. In this issue, we specifically home in on China and how that country's immense power needs are affecting the energy ecosystem at large. |
Ned Temko, CSM As governments prepare to pledge reduced carbon emissions at a U.N. climate summit, surging fossil fuel demand may focus minds on action, not words. |
Arvind Gupta, TechCrunch How to profit from the shift to greener industries. |
Ben Thompson, Stratechery Carlota Perez documents technological revolutions, and thinks we're in the middle of the current one; what, though, if we are nearing its maturation? Is crypto next? |
Jeffrey Kleintop, Charles Schwab Persistently going from one transitory source of inflation to the next may keep inflation elevated for longer than markets currently anticipate. |
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Schwab Here are the top five reasons people give for not having a financial plan—and why everyone needs one. |
Richard Moody, First Trust Advisors |
Martin C.W. Walker, LinkedIn With advances in artificial intelligence (AI), it seems that the range of economic activities that can and will be automated is now limitless. Not for the first time, society is both thrilled and fearful of the opportunities. |
David Heacock, FilterBuy.com Income inequality has been a major social, political, and economic issue since the Great Recession, and the uneven effects of the COVID-19 economy has only made the gaps between America's haves and have-nots even starker. These divergent economic fortunes will continue to have a major effect on housing in the U.S. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Matt Welch, Reason Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, and co. insist that the IRS needs to know about $600 bank accounts. |
Collaborative Team, Collaborative Fund How to survive a world when what's right almost always sounds crazy at first. |
Umair Irfan, Vox Insurers are getting rocked by climate disasters. They're also shaping how we prepare for the next one. |
Jeanna Smialek, NY Times Economic policymakers have said inflation will prove temporary, but rising rents may challenge that view and pressure Washington to react. |
Sheldon Richman, Free Association Inflation is insidious. |
Ryan Avent, The Bellows On stagflation, and other risks |
Stan Treger, Morningstar What makes some people more inclined to invest than their peers? |
Claire Jones, FT Alphaville Demanding the logistics industry works round the clock won't ease logjams, buying less stuff would. |
Joel Kotkin, Quillette For a generation, the Long Beach and Los Angeles harbors in California handled more than 40 percent of all container cargo headed into the US and epitomized the power of a globalizing economy. Today, the ships—mostly from Asia—still dock, but they must wait in a seemingly endless conga |
Dylan Scott, Vox The big unanswered question at the heart of Democrats' health care agenda. |
Mariana Mazzucato, Project Syndicate Now that the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the deficiencies of economic deregulation and market liberalization, a new policymaking paradigm is emerging. But its success depends on concrete reforms and the creation of new mission-driven institutions. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Scott Grannis, Calafia Beach Pundit There is no shortage of things to worry about. |
Matt Taibbi, TK News Notes from a surprise visit. |
Howard Husock, City Journal An obscure new law could help convert underutilized commercial properties into new housing. |
Nick Maggiulli, Of Dollars And Data On profound realizations and taking a different path in life. |
Charlie Bilello, Compound Advisors The 40-year decline in interest rates has put investors today in a difficult position. They are forced to either reach for higher returns or accept the reality of lower ones. |
Cullen Roche, Pragmatic Capitalism The money multiplier myth is finally officially over. |
Chris Taylor, Reuters You probably know Sammy Hagar as a music legend, either from his solo career or as a longtime frontman for Van Halen. What you might not know: The gravel-voiced 70-year-old is also an impressive business titan, with successful ventures ranging from spirits to restaurants. |
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