09/07/2021
Today
Alex Pollock & Edward Pinto, Law & Liberty Alex J. Pollock and Edward J. Pinto propose reforms in the U.S. housing policy to avoid the housing and financial crises of the past. |
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Deficit hawks are trying to undermine federal spending, and they're still wrong. |
Andrew Wilford, RCM Most IRS guidance documents make for poor pleasure reading. Then again, most IRS guidance doesn't effectively impose a retroactive tax on small business owners merely for having a family. IRS Notice 2021-49, issued on August 4, includes a bizarre interpretation of the law that will effectively raise taxes for business owners with close relatives, even if their family members have no involvement in the company. A core goal of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act passed early on in the pandemic was to assist businesses in keeping employees on their payroll even as they... |
Charles Gasparino, New York Post There could be a lot of fighting between SEC Chair Gary Gensler and the popular stock trading app Robinhood. That battle could get really ugly, writes Charles Gasparino. |
Eric Wade, American Consequences John Paulson – hedge-fund billionaire who made a killing during the Great Recession claims bitcoin has no value. We're here to call his bluff. |
Vivekanand Jayakumar, The Hill Looking beyond the Fed Chair selection debate, there are three critical issues that should be of grave concern for policymakers. |
Market Minder, FI Do August's weaker-than-forecast hiring numbers mean trouble ahead? |
Dave Seminara, Washington Examiner Sixty-five years ago this month, President Richard Nixon made front-page news predicting that America was moving toward a four-day workweek. We're nowhere near Nixon's goal — and even further from John Maynard Keynes's 1928 prediction that we'd all be working 15-hour weeks by 2028. But with record… |
Sigal Samuel, Vox The Biden administration needs to factor in climate change's cost in human lives — and what we owe to future generations. |
Terri Gerstein, NYT The impact of rotten jobs radiates far beyond the workplace. |
Christy Bieber, Motley Fool Remember, Social Security only replaces 40% of your pre-retirement income. You could be left with too little money if you don't prepare yourself. |
Michelle Toh & Kristie Lu Stout, CNN Banks in Hong Kong are increasingly being squeezed by a series of changes forcing them to fall in line with Beijing's agenda. |
Jon Jones, Smartest Dollar Mortgage loan approval rates vary according to several factors including location. Researchers ranked metros by mortgage loan approval rates in 2020. |
Jeffrey Kleintop, Charles Schwab Supply chain issues are worsening, increasing the risk to sales, production, and inflation. European stocks may offer an opportunity to avoid these risks. |
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. |
J. Bradford DeLong, PS The past 30 years should have taught Democrats to put their own economic policy priorities before symbolic gestures of "bipartisanship." If US President Joe Biden does not replace Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell with Lael Brainard, he will almost certainly regret it. |
Paul R. La Monica, CNN The August jobs report was a massive disappointment, with Corporate America hiring far fewer people than expected. But investors largely shrugged off the weaker jobs gains. |
Daniel A. Gross, Vox The history of hurricanes like Katrina and Ida says a lot about America's future. |
Jakir Hossain, Morningstar Retailers posted solid numbers this earnings season, but we think their stocks are, in general, overbought--with some exceptions. |
Eduardo Porter, NY Times Offices are unlikely to be as full after the pandemic as they were before. Service businesses and their employees will have to adapt. |
Jon Petersen, Novel Investor Bernard Baruch's biggest mistake came early in his career. It was his quickest and largest loss ever and provided a lasting lesson. |
Will Knight, Wired ASML's next-generation extreme ultraviolet lithography machines achieve previously unattainable levels of precision, which means chips can keep shrinking for years to come. |
SoLightSolar, Southern Light Solar In a crisis like the one that hit the world in March 2020, only one thing will restore confidence: limitless cash. An excerpt from Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy. |
Jerusalem Demsas, Vox The worst problems are in the neighborhoods that aren't gentrifying. |
Eric Boehm, Reason How spending got out of control and words lost their meaning. |
Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense Optimism sells today. |
Nicholas Schmidle, The New Yorker The F.A.A. is investigating the ship's off-course descent. |
J.C. Parets, All Star Charts Somewhere along the way I think people forgot that we're only in the market to make money. This is a very selfish endeavor. Who cares what other people are doing with their investments? Why should it matter to me that someone else may or may not be trading recklessly in the NFT space? |
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. |
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