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- No Country Has Ever Taxed Itself into Prosperity
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- May 10, 2021
Violent protests have erupted in the streets of Bogota, Cali and other cities in Colombia. The immediate cause? Proposed reforms to the South American country’s tax system, which would have lifted taxes on everything from salaries and dividends to fossil fuels, single-use plastic items and more.
- The Top 5 Most Popular Investment Stories of 2020
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- December 30, 2020
Now that 2020 has drawn to a close, I’m revisiting my most popular investment posts of the year, based on views. It was a truly historic 12 months, to say the least, but I won’t be covering everything that happened. For many of you, that’s probably a good thing. So without further ado, below are the top five most-read stories of 2020, in descending order.
- Markets Have Outperformed When a President Seeks Reelection
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- August 12, 2020
By now you’ve all heard the news. Joe Biden, the Democrats’ presumptive nominee for president, has selected as his running mate Kamala Harris, junior senator from California and the state’s former attorney general.
- The Contrarian Investment Case for Russian Stocks
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- August 6, 2020
Russian stocks, as measured by the MOEX Russia Index, turned positive for the year on August 4 after plunging 30 percent due to the pandemic.
- A $10 Trillion Response to the Global Pandemic
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- March 23, 2020
Last week I was introduced to a board game called Pandemic. In the game, players are up against the clock to find the cure to viral outbreaks and contain them before they spread across the entire globe.
- Here's Why You Shouldn't Panic Over China's Factory Slowdown
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- March 5, 2020
Chinese manufacturing activity slumped to a record low in February as the coronavirus outbreak temporarily shuttered plants and factories and travel restrictions impacted the supply of labor.
- Where to Get Income in a Low-Yield World
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- February 18, 2020
So far in 2020, the yield on the 10-year Treasury has averaged an anemic 0.01 percent when adjusted for inflation. Since the end of January, it’s actually dipped below 0 percent, trading as low as negative 0.14 percent on January 31.
- Here's What the Trucking Industry Could Learn From Airlines
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- December 18, 2019
This year alone, nearly 800 U.S.-based trucking companies have gone bankrupt. That’s almost three times the rate as in 2018, when things were looking remarkably positive.
- Is the Fed Gearing Up for a New Round of Quantitative Easing? Here Are the Possible Signs
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- December 10, 2019
“This is not QE. In no sense is this QE.”
That was Jerome Powell in early October, answering a reporter’s question on whether the Federal Reserve’s intervention in the overnight U.S. repo market constituted another round of quantitative easing (QE).
- Will the Real Manufacturing PMI Please Stand Up?
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- December 4, 2019
It’s the top of a new month, meaning we get to see the latest manufacturing purchasing manager’s index (PMI) readings. And if you follow both the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) and IHS Markit’s reports on U.S. factory activity, you may be getting some mixed signals.
