09/30/2021
Today
Rachel Siegel & Jonathan O'Connell, Washington Post Eviction filings have fallen or remained flat in many areas after the federal eviction moratorium was struck down. |
Market Minder, Fisher Headlines are overreacting to short-term events, in our view. |
John Tamny, C-SPAN.org John Tamny, vice president at FreedomWorks, argued that politicians from both parties overreacted in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This event was hosted by the Mises Institute in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
Nathan Vardi & Hank Tucker,Forbes For most financiers, "government" is a four-letter word. But private equity billionaire Ramzi Musallam has turned tragedy into a Forbes 400 fortune by distilling the motivations of the largest player in the global economy. |
Liesel Pritzker Simmons & Ian Simmons, Time Taxing America's wealthiest citizens is productive and patriotic, not punitive, Liesel Pritzker Simmons and Ian Simmons write. |
Andrew Stuttaford, NRO Such a tax is really a tax on wealth. |
Anna Held, Vox When values are at odds with a company's bottom line, all too often they won't win out. |
Richard Salsman, AIER "Today's U.S. labor shortage is both uneconomic and unnecessary, yet nonetheless what appears to be a deliberate policy aim. Sadly, the same can be said about a wide range of other anti-capitalist policies being advanced by the Biden administration." ~ Richard M. Salsman |
Heather Boushey, NYT For decades, politicians have rewarded wealth over work, putting big corporate interests above working families. That has to stop. |
Rep. Kevin Hern, Washington Examiner When I first came to Congress in 2018, I knew that I could provide a valuable voice for small businesses at the heart of our government. I campaigned on the notion that small business owners lacked a voice in Washington, D.C., which I knew to be true after 35 years as a small business owner. I never felt represented or understood by my government. |
Paul Steidler, RealClearMarkets Effective Friday, October 1, mail service will be slower in the United States than it was in the 1970's as slower delivery standards officially go into effect. Mail service is getting worse despite the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) receiving $10 billion as part of the December COVID relief package and potentially up to $9 billion from the $3.5 trillion spending package to purchase electric vehicles and install related infrastructure. |
Haley Zaremba, OilPrice.com Though the nuclear power industry has received mixed criticism and praise in recent years, new innovations could transform the sector's safety and viability to bring it back into the mainstream |
Servaas Storm, INET Going Down the Rabbit Hole at Jackson Hole |
Jeff Troutner, Equius Partners We've learned a lot about investing over the past 60 years, a period that has seen many breakthroughs in the world of finance. What we know comes from studying public markets and is grounded in serious academic research. The lessons are clear: Investing in markets is an excellent plan for meeting long-term goals, like maximizing your retirement income. When you develop a deeper understanding of public markets, you can cultivate a sense of optimism about investing. |
Lawrence Gillum, LPL Financial Research Market Blog Tuesday, September 28, 2021 |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Scott Lincicome & Huan Zhu, Cato |
Bill McBride, Calculated Risk These indicators are mostly for travel and entertainment. It will interesting to watch these sectors recover as the pandemic subsides. ... |
Graham Allison, The Hill The U.S. needs bold initiatives on legal immigration to sustain its lead over China in the technology race. |
Alberto Mingardi, AIER "Few of us would endorse the idea of marriages mandatorily arranged by parents for their kids. Why would we be happier with state paternalism deciding how society should be formed?" ~ Alberto Mingardi |
Jim Tankersley, New York Times The president canceled a trip to Chicago in an attempt to salvage a pair of bills containing trillions of dollars in spending on infrastructure, education, climate change and more. |
Steve Feinstein, The American Thinker Despite their supposed apolitical nature, some issues develop along hyper-partisan fault lines and become a litmus test in identifying where someone rests along the ideological spectrum. One might never think topics like patriotism or meri... |
Tom Joyce, Washington Examiner How should professional sports teams pay to build their stadiums? |
Dana Peterson, CNN Many were relieved to see that consumer prices rose by less than expected in August. But this unfortunately isn't the beginning of the end of inflation for American households. In fact, consumers may not see lower prices until the latter half of 2022. |
Kelly Anne Smith,Forbes Many Americans turn to bankruptcy when their debt becomes overwhelming and unmanageable. But there's one form of debt that most believe is almost impossible to discharge through bankruptcy: student loans. Melissa Loe, a 47-year-old who lives in Los Angeles, knew that—but decided that hard didn't |
Jennifer Stefano, The Examiner A picture is worth a thousand words — maybe even 300,000, which was the dollar cost for a table at the Met Gala this year. And there's no denying just how powerful the imagery of that evening was. This year's Met Gala theme was "In America," the irony of which was not lost on most of the nation:… |
Neil Irwin, New York Times One concern is that political leaders will mismanage things in the world's largest and second-largest economies. |
Steve Benen, MSNBC When the president insists the Democrats' $3.5 trillion plan will cost "nothing," he has a point. It all comes down to net and gross costs. |
Editorial, Issues & Insights A wealthy president who has apparently avoided his full tax liabilities wants to make sure the rich pay their fair share. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Susan Dziubinski, Morningstar These are the cheapest names in the Morningstar Wide Moat Focus Index--plus stocks the index has recently added and dropped. |
Peter Suderman, Reason Under Biden, Democrats have decided that their agenda has no costs and no tradeoffs. |
Howard Rohleder, HumbleDollar IMAGINE YOU PLAN to retire next year. What can you do beforehand to gain the most later on? Here are some ideas to consider before you log off at work for the last time. |
Louis Sykes, All Star Charts We finally got a major resolution in the US 10-year yield, which has reclaimed that critical 1.40% level this week. This begs the question as to what a rising rate environment might mean for investor portfolios. |
Paul Tomlinson, Immersed VR Productivity in (or Above) a WFA World |
Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture What does it mean when markets go long periods of time without a meaningful pullback? |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar The latter is worse, but neither are helpful. |
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