April 3, 2017 Archives

Week of April 3, 2017 Archives

RealClearMarkets Morning Edition

Monday, April 3

An American Dream That's Not Supported By Any History

Stephen Mihm, Bloomberg

Is American Dream Killing the American People?

Robert Samuelson, Washington Post

Trump's Brilliant Treasury Pick May Head Off a Future Crisis

Steve Forbes, Forbes

Why Jared Kushner's Gov't Innovation Plans Won't Work

Joe Hadzima, Fortune

Donald Trump Foists a Big Lie About Jobs on U.S. Coal Country

Daniel Gross, Slate

If GDP Is Your Number, Obama Was Bad for Econ, Growth

Jonathon Trugman, NYP

'Fed Up' Is the Latest Book to Miss the Fed's Rising Irrelevance

John Tamny, Forbes

Are Your Retirement Savings at Risk? Some Basic Questions

Wendy Connick, USAT

How Investors Can Learn to Love a Mkt. Correction

Anora Mahmudova, MarketWatch

Giving Like a Rockefeller, Even If You're Not Superrich

Paul Sullivan, New York Times

Socialistic Tendencies of the Sports Team Owners

Jonathan Tobin, National Review

How Pence's 'Dude Dinners' Shrink Opportunities for Women

Olga Khazan, Atlantic

'Bro CEOs' and the Start-Ups That They Invariably Wreck

Dan Lyons, New York Times

Single Payer Care Is Fool's Gold For California

Sally Pipes, Investor's Business Daily

What We Can Learn From the Rhode Island Miracle

Stephen Moore, Washington Times

Tuesday, April 4

The $111 Million Reason Bill O'Reilly Is Safe At Fox News

Madeline Berg, Forbes

Elon Musk Is Trolling the Investors Who Shorted Tesla

Lucinda Shen, Fortune

Will Stellar Samsung Galaxy S8 Kill Apple's Stock Rally?

Nigam Arora, MarketWatch

The Key Which Will Determine If Stocks Rise or Fall

Anthony Mirhaydari, Fiscal Times

Falling Real Yields Are the Key to Understanding Today's Markets

When a Harvard Pedigree Won't Help You

Amanda Cantrell, Institutional Investor

This One Group Receives 70% of High-Skilled H-1B Visas

Tracy Jan, Washington Post

The Secret Monopoly Behind Outrageous U.S. Drug Prices

Ryan Cooper, The Week

Conservatives, Fracking, & the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations

John Tamny, RCM

Auditing the Fed Is Now More Important than Ever

Jonathan Newman, Mises Institute

Greece Will Stay in Debtors' Prison for Many More Years

Hugo Dixon, Reuters

It’s O.K., California. Breaking Up Isn’t Hard to Do.

Steven Greenhut, New York Times

Delivering on Middle Class Promises

Michael Spence & David Brady, Project Syndicate

Why the Rise of Autonomous Machines Could Help Workers

Ng & Tan, CNBC

Equal Pay Day Commemorates a Mythical Pay Gap

Andrew Biggs & Mark Perry, RCM

Wednesday, April 5

Stores Take Flight From Fifth Avenue in Manhattan

Rachel Abrams, New York Times

Young Americans Are Killing the Institution of Marriage

Ben Steverman, Bloomberg

Is 'Dangerous' Fed Idea Making a Comeback?

Pedro Nicolaci da Costa, Business Insider

Tick-Tock for the Cartel: The End Of OPEC Is Near

Rakesh Upadhyay, OilPrice.com

5 Alarming Facts About America's Student Loan Crisis

Eric Pianin, Fiscal Times

Window Closing for GOP Stealth Assault on Regulations

Lambert & Lynch, Reuters

Trump Foreign Policy? Shout Loud and Carry a Little Stick

Roger Cohen, NY Times

5 Ways Jamie Dimon Clashed With Trump in Annual Letter

Jen Wieczner, Fortune

How Democrats Are About to Give Trump His Groove Back

Jake Novak, CNBC

Either Way, Next President of France Will Be a Demagogue

Darrell Delamaide, MW

5 Ways Investors Can Play the Robot Revolution

Jeff Reeves, MarketWatch

$12B Startup Wants to Cure Baldness and Smooth Your Wrinkles

Lydia Ramsey, BI

You Didn't Get a Raise? It's Not Your Fault. It's Your Company.

Peter Orszag, BV

What to Do If You Haven't Saved for Retirement By Age 50

Alicia Rose, Motley Fool

Thursday, April 6

Universal Basic Income: An Idea Whose Time Should Never Come

Marc Joffe, TFT

Wall Street and Washington: A New Love Affair

Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times

Feel Good Investing Is Most 'Sustainable' If Profits Are Only Goal

Tony Mecia, TWS

Can Pro Sports Help Us to Understand Economics?

Ray Keating, RealClearMarkets

Is Team Trump Up to the Challenges That Are Mounting?

Doug Kass, RealMoney

To Improve Jobless Insurance, Let's Revisit Old Idea

Ryan Nunn, RealClearMarkets

Trump's Anti-Trade Stance Is at Odds With Dem Priorities

Jeffrey Kucik, RCPolicy

Don't Mourn the Death of Stock-Picking Just Yet

Barry Ritholtz, Bloomberg View

Bull Markets Don't Mean Extra Jobs for Wall Street

Nelson Schwartz, New York Times

Just Which Group Gets All the H1-B High-Skilled Visas?

Tracy Ian, Washington Post

Simplifying Tax Filing May Just Be Too Easy for Government

Gus Van Horn, RCM

Germany Pays the Price for Its 100% Green Ambitions

Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes

Tesla Court Loss Obscures Its Bigger Picture Victories

Zachary Karabell, Daily Beast

With Innovation Office, Trump Forgets Gov't Isn't Papa John's

Windsor Mann, USAT

The Bill O'Reilly Scandal Has Divided the Fox News Bunker

Sarah Ellison, Vanity Fair

The Bond Market Isn't Taking the Fed Very Seriously

Caroline Baum, MarketWatch

Thoughts On Improving the Fed's Governance Structure

Charles Calomiris, E21.com

Friday, April 7

Troubles at the American Mall Are Coming to a Boil

Sarah Halzack, Washington Post

An Issue Trump, Warren May Agree On

Michael Corkery & Jessica Silver-Greenberg, NYT

'Bring Back Glass-Steagall' Sounds Bipartisan. But It Isn't

Joe Nocera, Bloomberg

Paul Ryan's Precious Tax Reform Plan Is All But Dead

Jordan Weissmann, Slate

Trump & GOP Author Rising Risk for Retirement Savers

Editorial, New York Times

Without a Doubt, The Worst Moment Of Donald Trump's Life

Ralpy Benko, Forbes

Best Assets to Own While Waiting for a Downturn

John Mauldin, Mauldin Economics

This Disequilibrium Baloon Filled With Hot, Group Think Air

Doug Kass, RealMoney

America's High Corporate Taxes Make It Smaller Globally

Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Hill

What Are Our Stable Money Alternatives to a Gold Standard?

Nathan Lewis, Forbes

Jamie Dimon Finally Sees What Bernanke Never Did

Jeffrey Snider, RealClearMarkets

You Need This Much Retirement Savings at Your Age and Income

Paul Katzeff, IBD

Why Pepsi's Kendall Jenner Ad Bombed in the Age of Twitter

Mark Laver, Fortune

How Market's Already Repealing ACA

Stewart Jones, Foundation for Economic Education

Saturday, April 8

How Middle-Class America Got Fleeced

Noah Smith, Bloomberg View

Want to See How US Is Changing? Property Taxes Hold Answer

Andrea Riquier, MW

New Numbers Show Why Trump Shouldn’t Focus on Job Growth

Neil Irwin, NYTimes

Pregnant and Broke. Signing Up for Uber Drove Her Into Debt.

Danielle Paquette, WP

Millions of Americans Desperate to Work Full-Time

Quentin Fottrell, Marketwatch

Strike on Syria Could Revive Trump's Economic Agenda

Rick Newman, Yahoo Finance

'Trump Rally' Is On Its Last Legs: What It Means For the Market

John Melloy, CNBC

Wall Street Is Back. And It Is Bigger Than Ever Before

Lucinda Shen, Fortune

The Fed Is Watching Wall Street and Stock Prices

Matthew Boesler, BusinessWeek

IPO? Why Spotify Is Considering Listing Without I, P and O

Tom Buerkle, Reuters

'Going Green' Doesn't Necessarily Protect Consumers

Peter Roff, RealClearMarkets

Trump's Mexican Border Wall: A Look at the Proposals

Chris Isidore, CNNMoney

Tactical Nuclear Option Inside Reconciliation

Larry Kudlow, National Review

Gorsuch: How Will Supreme Court Rule On Business Cases?

Daniel Fisher, Forbes

Hot Shrapnel: After Strike, Russia’s Romance with Trump Is Dead

The Economist