The Brutalist Report

MarketWatch

• The Big Move: I want to refinance my mortgage, but I’m about to turn 70. Is it wise to refinance at my time of life? [1325d]
• Outside the Box: Congress’s $76 billion plan to help U.S. chip makers is bad tax policy — and could turn into subsidies forever [1325d]
• Economic Report: Is the U.S. in recession now? Not yet — and here’s why [1325d]
• Commodities Corner: Why Goldman’s commodity guru Jeff Currie is bullish on oil despite July’s pullback [1325d]
• Commodities Corner: What’s in store for commodities after losses in July? [1325d]
• Retirement Weekly: How to make the most of your retirement [1325d]
• Brett Arends's ROI: The propaganda campaign to wreck Social Security is right on track [1325d]
• : Bill to enshrine gig work into federal labor law ‘would effectively get rid of the minimum wage and overtime compensation’ [1326d]
• Living With Climate Change: Flash floods, like in Las Vegas, are deadlier than hurricanes, tornadoes or lightning [1326d]
• Lawrence A. Cunningham's Quality Investing: Elon Musk is hitting ‘peak hubris’ with his high-risk Twitter and bitcoin plays. Tesla shareholders should be concerned. [1326d]
• MarketWatch First Take: Big Tech shows its good to be big, as growth slowdown leads to stock gains while smaller rivals find only pain [1326d]
• : The truckers’ triumph: The incredible story of how a scrappy group of blue-collar retirees rescued their pensions [1326d]
• Robert Powell's Retirement Portfolio: Are retirees worrying about the wrong things? [1326d]
• MarketWatch Premium: Most investors still don’t understand the relationship between risk and return, study reveals [1326d]
• Outside the Box: The Fed vowed to crush inflation with higher rates. Then the stock market rallied. Here’s why. (It’s not good news.) [1326d]
• : Moderna and Pfizer to start clinical trials for COVID-19 boosters that target BA.5 ‘in the near future’ [1326d]
• : Lured by record-high rents, homebuilders ramp up construction of apartments [1326d]
• : With rents at record highs, ‘it’s tough to see how renters — whether or not they want to buy a home — will ever catch up’ [1326d]
• : Is the housing market in a recession? Here’s what economists are saying [1326d]
• Earnings Outlook: Is PayPal about to cut its forecast yet again? [1326d]