Week of June 12, 2017 Archives
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Monday, June 12
The Unsung Genius of Getting Fired
Jeffrey Tucker
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Foundation for Economic Education
'Universal Basic Income' is a Monumentally Awful Idea
Editorial
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Investor's Business
Kansas Reveals Failure of Supply-Side Economics
Michael Tomasky
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New York Times
Democrats' New Econ. Plan Will Solidify Their Minority Status
John Tamny
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Forbes
All Uncertainty from Washington Is Not Created Equal
Ray Keating
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RealClearMarkets
Don't Be Naive and Roll Over For This 401(k) and IRA Ripoff
Ken Fisher
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USA Today
Thoughts on Fixing U.S.'s Endless Infrastructure Mess
George Will
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National Review
With Its $23 Billion 'Surplus,' Is Nigeria Ripping the U.S. Off?
Allan Golombek
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RCM
Why Taking Nordstrom Private Might Be a Bad Idea
Jonathon Trugman
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New York Post
Paying the Price for Eight Days of Flying in America
Sarah Lyall
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New York Times
The Federal Reserve Needs Better Inflation Target
Narayana Kocherlakota
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Bloomberg
A Ritzy Place For World's Unlikeliest Socialists
Matthew Campbell & Alex Morales
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BBW
Don't Be Fooled, Trump's Budget Proposal Is Very Much 'Undead'
Henry Aaron
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RCM
Gary Cohn Has Long Profited From His Biggest Mistakes
Jessica Pressler
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New York
Tuesday, June 13
Cautionary CEO Tale Emerges from the Fall of Jeffrey Immelt
Ira Stoll
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New York Sun
Merger Numbers Belie Expressed CEO Optimism
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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New York Times
The Reasons Why Market Lambs Should Fear a Slaughter
Doug Kass
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RealMoney
Some Indicators That Markets Are Very Overvalued
John Mauldin
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Mauldin Economics
Infrastructure Isn't Crumbling, Nor Will More Of It 'Create Jobs'
Jeff Harding
, AIM
Why the Age of the Skyscraper In China Is Coming To an End
Adam Minter
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BBW
The Times Is Wrong, Pittsburgh Should Genuflect Before Uber
John Tamny
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RCM
Philip Roth Showed Newark, NJ at Its Best and Worst
Steven Malanga
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City Journal
Foreign Bullying of American Innovators Must Stop
David Lund & Matthew Barblan
, WT
Growing Employer Abuse of the Non-Compete Clause
Ryan Nunn
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RealClearMarkets
Get Serious, and Stop Pretending You're Not Rich
Richard Reeves
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New York Times
One Way to Think About Low-Income Housing
Kevin Williamson
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National Review
Don't Foist Kansas Tax Cuts on Rest of the U.S.
Stephen Henderson
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Detroit Free Press
Overzealous Money Laundering Rules Hurt Innocent
Richard Rahn
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Washington Times
Secrets That the Waldorf-Astoria's 'Detectives' Once Kept
Katrina Gulliver
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Slate
To Fight Warming, End Private Flight to Climate Confabs
Glenn Harlan Reynolds
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USA
Wednesday, June 14
Don't Fear Today's Market: It's Not a Late 1990s 'Bubble'
Gary Smith
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RealClearMarkets
Why Retirees Shouldn't Shun Market - Even in Retirement
Anna-Louise Jackson
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USA
Be Smarter Than Harvard, & Dump Your High-Yield Bonds
John Coumarianos
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MW
Comey's Worst Abuses Were Against Business Figures
Mollie Hemingway
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Federalist
Our Top Entrepreneurial Governor: Interview w/Doug Burgum
Rich Karlgaard
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Forbes
Why Companies Like Uber Get Away w/Bad Behavior
Randall Stross
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New York Times
Outrage-Mongers on Left and Right Empower the Censors
Charles Gasparino
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NYP
Here's How 'Green Sausages' Are Made in D.C. Swamp
Editorial
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Investor's Business
Why Donald Trump Is Way Too Late to Bring Coal Back
Justin Fox
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Bloomberg View
Optomestrists Fight the Technology That Saves You Money
George Leef
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Forbes
Brexit: An Embrace of the Global Economy's New Geography
Salvatore Babones
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NR
Today's Acquisitive Old Are Eating Future of Their Children
Satyajit Das
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Bloomberg
GOP Is Working Stealthily to Shred Financial Protection
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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TN
How Wells Fargo's Culture Allegedly Drove Its Bankers to Fraud
Bethany McLean
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VF
Thursday, June 15
This Is Not a Narrow, 'FANGs' Driven Rally
Cliff Asness and Todd Hazelkorn,
AQR Capital
The Limiting Qualities of Black Box Investment Algorithms
Gary Smith
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MarketWatch
Listen Luddites, This Market Action Is About the Machines
Doug Kass
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RealMoney
Don't Fear The Robots, Fear Low Savings And Investment
Nathan Lewis
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Forbes
The Western Economists Who Needlessly Delayed China's Rise
John Tamny
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RCM
Are Millennials Following the Simple 'Success Sequence'?
Robert VerBruggen
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NRO
How To Turn A Glass Of Wine Into A $173,000 Bump In Your IRA
Paul Katzeff
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IBD
What the Latest Fed Rate Hike Could Mean for Mortgage Rates
Hal Bundrick
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USAT
Yellen's Rate Move Could Define Her Fed Chairmanship
Neil Irwin
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New York Times
Before the End of 2017, Talk Will Turn to the Fed Cutting Rates
John Crudele
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NYP
A Speculation About How This Economic Recovery Ends
Conor Sen
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Bloomberg View
The Trump Administration Uses Flawed ACA Numbers -- Again
Michael Hiltzik
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LAT
You Can't Deny Trump's Tremendous Impact on the Economy
Andy Puzder
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The Hill
Donald Trump's NAFTA Trade Imbalance Delusion
Robert Samuelson
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Washington Post
Friday, June 16
To See the Future, Look at the Cities That Are Shaping It
Carl Bildt
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Project Syndicate
Biggest Challenge Facing Cities Is a Lack of Superstars
Aaron Renn
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New Geography
Enviros Demand Trillions in Lower Pension Returns
Matt Mackowiak
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National Review
Adam Smith's Contributions Remain Crucial In the Here & Now
Fred Smith
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Forbes
While Undoing One Mistake, Is the Fed Making Another?
Editorial
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Investor's Business
Can Bond Market's Message Get Any Clearer Than It Is Now?
Scott Dorf
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Bloomberg
Another Unnecessarily Embarrassing Day for the Fed
Jeffrey Snider
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RealClearMarkets
Stocks Continue to Mirror the Dot-Com Era in Ominous Ways
Ryan Vlastelica
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MW
A Worrying Reason Active Funds Can't Beat Passive Funds
John Mauldin
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Mauldin
Economy of 2016 Weighs on Elections in 2018 and 2020
Barry Ritholtz
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Bloomberg
World Offers Cautionary Tale for Trump's Infrastructure Plan
Peter Goodman
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NYT
Increased Coal Production Doesn't Correlate w/More Coal Jobs
Daniel Gross
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S+E
Did Jack Welch Model Sow Seeds of G.E.'s Decline?
James Stewart
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New York Times
Hensarling Focused on Taking Dodd-Frank Down
Jim Puzzanghera
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Los Angeles Times
Saturday, June 17
Ignore the Critics, Amazon/Whole Foods Is Good for Consumers
Editorial
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Investor's
Amazon Isn't Just Spending Big Bucks on Grocery Chains
Justin Fox
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Bloomberg
John Mackey Finds An Unlikely Refuge
Michael de la Merced & Alexandra Stevenson
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NYT
Here's the One Glaring Problem with Amazon/Whole Foods
Craig Crossland
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CNBC
Sometimes Terrible Tragedies Can Bring Us Together
Larry Kudlow
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RealClearMarkets
Let's Turn the United States Into a Construction Zone
John Cline
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FTI Journal
Trump White House Run Made Him Richer
Lachlan Markay & Gideon Resnick
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Daily Beast
How to Win at the Long Game of Retirement Savings
Ron Lieber
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New York Times
Millennials Haven't Yet Developed Good Market Relationship
Adam Shell
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USA Today
Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out, Mr. Musk
Mytheos Holt
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American Spectator
Janet Yellen Is Her Own Best Fed Successor
Narayana Kocherlakota
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Bloomberg View
What the Critics Get Wrong About Atlas Shrugged
Nate Russell
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Fdn for Econ Education