09/03/2021
Today Paul Katzeff, Investor's Business 3 Funds That Can Boost Your Annual Retirement Income Over $100K |
Maurie Backman, Motley Fool Some 40% of 401(k) plan participants don't understand the fees they're paying, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. |
Market Minder, Fisher Investments Stocks aren't out of touch with economic fundamentals, in our view. |
Julia Horowitz, CNN Last month, Before the Bell observed early signs that the red-hot global housing market could be starting to cool, as elevated prices appeared to hurt demand and home improvement spending eased. |
Nicholas Eberstadt, RCM A natural experiment in the US labor market commences next week as pandemic benefits (including pandemic unemployment insurance) are scheduled to end on Labor Day. The US labor market suffered a terrible shock from the COVID19 pandemic in early 2020, and experienced a remarkably rapid initial recovery — a snap back of unprecedented speed and magnitude. Curiously, however, the return to pre-pandemic employment rates seemed to stall out last fall. While employment rates for men and women 20 and over remain below their Great Recession nadir, they have risen only by a mere one percentage point... |
Jeffrey Tucker, Brownstone There are periods in American history when a scientifically based frenzy sweeps all other considerations before it. Values like equality, democracy, and freedom give way toward a new theory of how society should be managed to account for some new consideration that trumps all others. |
Clayola Brown, RealClearMarkets It is no understatement that working class Americans suffered disproportionate damage from the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions of union workers performed essential functions, while most of the country was locked down, ensuring that our grocery shelves remained stocked, construction projects continued safely, and domestic workers kept our families healthy and happy. These workers were responsible for keeping our society afloat. While the fight against this pandemic is not over yet, it is essential that workers be front and center as Congress debates policy decisions that will impact our economy... |
Rebecca Heilweil, Vox Several US cities have instituted vaccine passport systems for indoor dining. |
Robert Mulligan, AIER "The Covid-19 recession was not triggered by financial causes, but the ballooning government debt the U.S. is currently pursuing, recklessly and with a vengeance, can only substitute a new unsustainable expansion for a sustainable recovery." ~ Robert F. Mulligan |
Jeffrey Snider, RealClearMarkets Fred Schultz was Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve during one of those watershed periods that come up consistently throughout history. No Economist, he was a Korean Army vet (artillery officer) before jumping into (actual) banking as well as investment services. Whether or not he was some star-crossed addition to the Fed's top-level roster, some kind of monetarily jinxed influence is probably unlikely. The possibility, however, was raised by Mr. Schultz himself at his last FOMC meeting. This was February 1 and 2 of 1982, and things were neither going well for the central bank nor in... |
Trish Regan, American Consequences From the wreckage of Hurricane Ida to our shameful Afghanistan exit, America's political incompetence will end up ravaging this country. |
Paul Krugman, New York Times It wants to prioritize low taxes over the fate of civilization. |
Ironman, Political Calculations August 2021 was another strong month for dividend paying firms in the U.S. stock market. |
Bryce Coward, Knowledge Leaders Today at the annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reiterated that the Fed is in no hurry to either taper asset purchases immediately or aggressively. |
Lee Ohanian, Cato A few ideas to enhance affordability. |
Donald Kohn, Brookings Don Kohn delivered remarks on financial stability at the August 2021 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium. |
Rob Williams & Chris Kawashima, Schwab How much can you spend in retirement without running out of money? The "4% rule" is a popular rule of thumb, but we think you can do better. Here are our guidelines for finding your personalized spending rate. |
Lauren Foster, Enterprising Investor Anything that you want to price in finance has three key inputs, Vineer Bhansali says. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Ben Inker, GMO Quarterly Letter Ben Inker addresses some of the objections we hear from investors who are hesitant to join us in betting strongly on value today. |
Kenneth Rogoff, Project Syndicate Many economists seem to view inflation as a purely technocratic problem, and most central bankers would like to believe that. In fact, the roots of sustained inflation mainly stem from political economy problems, and here the long list of similarities between the 1970s and today is unsettling. |
Terry Nguyen, Vox Supply chain delays, shortages, and delivery issues are here to stay. |
Ari David Blaff, Quillette The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the alarming extent of America's dependence on foreign countries. |
Allison Schrager, City Journal Engaging in political issues would damage the institution. |
Matthew Olex-Szczytowski, UnHerd Wealthy states treat Eastern Europe as a colony |
Charlie Bilello, Compound Advisors Calm markets don't make great investors. |
Jamie Powell, FT Alphaville The House of Mouse's parks business still has a pandemic problem. |
Christopher Lingle, AIER "Political agents can be expected to look to 'science' to provide a cover for expanded interventions or claims on resources that were previously considered to be unacceptable." ~ Christopher Lingle |
Dawn Lippert & Aimee Barnes, Hill With massive gaps in existing clean technologies to meet that goal by 2050, the time is ripe for enhanced support from the federal government for equitable clean energy innovation and entrepreneurship. |
Emily Stewart, Town & Country Finance's ancien régime may have been put on notice by a new breed of Wall Street buccaneer, but it still emerged from the GameStop frenzy unscathed, give or take a few billion. |
Matt McFarland, CNN The $1 trillion infrastructure bill appears set to give passenger and freight rail $66 billion, an infusion that will likely expand where service is offered but does little to increase the speed of train travel in the US. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
David Dayen, The American Prospect Hundreds of billions of dollars are scheduled for industries private equity dominates. Advocates want to make sure workers and families benefit, not financiers. |
Ben Thompson, Stratechery The FTC's new Facebook case isn't any better than the old one, even as there are ever more questions about the potential harm of regulatory interference |
Morgan Housel, Collaborative Fund Some small flaws I've noticed in humans. |
Eric Boehm, Reason Without policy changes, beneficiaries will receive only 78 percent of what was promised starting in 2034. |
Scott Grannis, Calafia Beach Pundit People keep asking why gold isn't going up with inflation. It already did. |
Cullen Roche, Pragmatic Capitalism Is all crypto going to zero? |
Steven Vannelli, Knowledge Leaders The economy is slowing but inflation isn't. |
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