10/27/2021
Today
Ken Fisher, RealClearMarkets What happened to all those SPACs? Earlier this year, special-purpose acquisition companies were market darlings—and symbols of stocks' building emergent froth. These "blank-check" firms appealed to investors seeking quick, easy windfalls, starting to echo 2000's IPO boom-a-thon turned bust-a-vortex. Today? Poof! Former President Trump's new eyeball-grabbing deal aside, SPACs have nearly disappeared due to big blowups and regulatory woes. No surprise—SPACs never held market magic. Viewed correctly, though, they do help foretell stocks' future. Here is why their about-face is actually... |
Paul La Monica, CNN What a difference a month makes. |
Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine Conservative judicial activism to the rescue! |
Allison Schrager, Bloomberg It's being called the Great Resignation. |
Zachary Karabell, Time Even though the Build Back Better bill looks likely to pass, the Democrats blew their moment by focusing on taxes rather than spending |
Patrick Hedger, RCM One of the basic rules of childhood is you do not accept candy from strangers. Yet, every year this rule is effectively ignored on Halloween. While the risks are never zero, children go door to door to ask for candy because of some commonplace safeguards. Parents usually accompany small children, set rules for how long their older kids can be out and how far they can go, and most parents will look through the haul at the end of the night for anything suspicious. There's also the fact that a lot of trick or treating doesn't occur amongst strangers, but rather amongst neighbors. Even if kids... |
Maya MacGuineas, The Hill Policymakers will need to choose what to keep, what to shrink, what to better target, what to set aside, and how to pay for it all. |
Rob Smith, RCM The most important job of a father is to teach his son how to be a man and to teach his daughter how a man is supposed to be. Nothing is more sacred to a father than protecting his little girl. The day my first daughter was born, I made a promise to myself. I kept this promise. On her very first date, I had a double barrel shotgun broken over my lap. I was stroking the barrel with gun oil and giving the boy the steely eye when he walked in the room to meet me. The message was clear, don't mess with my little girl. Brothers have a similar duty. A few years back, that same daughter was living... |
Will Fried, Boston Herald Earlier this month, the Boston Herald editorial board called on the National Association of Realtors to change a set of rules that it believes is anticompetitive and serves to keep real estate comm… |
Paul Krugman, New York Times Democrats' plans aren't "Marxism." They're as American as apple pie. |
Charles Gasparino, NYP To pay for the $5 trillion love letter to progressives, the Democrats have floated taxing "unrealized capital gains." |
Michael Ennis, Texas Monthly Architect John Staub, the forgotten genius of River Oaks, transformed a few nondescript Houston streets into Millionaires' Row. |
Jerry Bowyer, Vident Financial Let's zoom in and look at some indices during periods of high and low inflation. |
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, First Trust Advisors |
Richard Moody, Regions Bank |
Lee Bohl, Charles Schwab Find out why you should have a trade plan—and the five elements that may help you put it to work successfully. |
Jerry Bowyer, Vident Financial High inflation doesn't just raise prices; it raises an important question for investors: Which investments historically tend to do relatively well during periods of elevated inflation? |
Marko Csokasi, Commodity.com Learn which states depend most on securities trading. We explain the total share of securities trading as part of state GDP and more. |
Shirin Ghaffary, Vox Facebook's numbers are doing fine for now — but not its reputation. |
Jay Caspian Kang, New York Times What does it mean now that cryptocurrency has joined proper society? |
Lewis Uhler & Joseph Yocca, I&I Biden's combination of higher unemployment and inflation is reminiscent of 1970s-era 'malaise.' |
Vivekanand Jayakumar, Hill There is a need to use this window of opportunity to initiate fundamental structural reforms in order to put American workers on a firmer footing. |
Hayes Brown, MSNBC.com Taxing billionaires should be the easiest part of the Democrats' agenda to pass. |
Emma Kerr, U.S. News & World Report Remote work continues to be commonplace amid the coronavirus pandemic, which experts say has only served to speed up the trend of increased teleworking. Remote work is often appealing to employees seeking more flexibility, but in some cases remote work can also offer tax advantages alongside reduced housing and transportation costs. |
David Waugh, AIER "If progressives such as Elizabeth Warren extended their publicly held values of 'fearless consumer advocacy' to also apply to those outside the western world, they would see the value of Bitcoin." ~ David Waugh |
Paula Froelich, New York Post Why don't these hyper-aware eco-gazillionaires, many of whom have claimed they will give all their money away before they die, simply go for broke and use their own cash to plug holes, build reefs,… |
Tatiana Walk-Morris, Vox Banks charge customers for not having enough money. It's a tax on the poor. |
David Harsanyi, New York Post The $3.5 trillion bill that Biden and Democrats are now attempting to cram through Congress via reconciliation is meant to create a European-style, cradle-to-grave welfare state. |
Santura Pegram, Foodprocessing Business consultant and member of the AFL-CIO / International Longshoremen's Association Santura Pegram offers this first-person perspective of the supply chain issues affecting US goods right now. |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, Fisher Investments |
Brian Chingono, Verdad Profitability and value are two sides of the same coin and ought to be considered as complementary peers or jointly in a combined strategy. |
Bill McBride, Calculated Risk One of my favorite models for business cycle forecasting uses new home sales (also housing starts and residential investment). |
Tyler Cowen, MR What would The Party of Science say? |
macromon, Global Macro Monitor Who will buy the new issuance of Treasuries when the Fed backs out of the market. |
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar An observation, not a recommendation. |
Charlie Bilello, Compound Advisors "The Market is always right." One of the most popular sayings which can also be one of the most dangerous. |
Neal Freyman, Morning Brew Flexport CEO's tweetstorm leads to policy change that could help alleviate port backlog |
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