June 19, 2017 Archives

Week of June 19, 2017 Archives

RealClearMarkets Morning Edition

Monday, June 19

For NYC's Municipal Workers, a Supplementary Welfare State

Kevin Williamson, NRO

How Marx Got on Wrong Side of History

Richard Ebeling, Fdn. for Economic Education

Leaders Don't Always Make Good Managers: Int. w/Jay Walker

Adam Bryant, NYT

Amazon: Everything Store Expands Further Into Groceries

Zachary Karabell, Wired

Amazon/Whole Foods Will Change How You Buy Food Forever

Zlati Meyer, USAT

How Donald Trump Can Curb Runaway Drug Prices

Arthur Laffer, Bloomberg View

The Pollution Fallacy Behind the Fight Against Deregulation

John Tamny, Forbes

Meet Legislation Crafted to Stifle Shareholders

Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times

We're Not Smart Enought to Spot a Coming Market Correction

Scott Nations, MW

With Market Commentary, Too Many Peddlers of Nonsense

Barry Ritholtz,Bloomberg

The Border-Adjustment Tax Is No Free Lunch

Alan Reynolds, Investor's Business Daily

Federal Reserve Chairman Yellen's Very Bad Week

Irwin Stelzer, The Weekly Standard

The United States Sings the Post-Industrial Blues

Robert Samuelson, Washington Post

Get Ready, Much Faster Growth Is Around the Corner

Steve Moore, Washington Times

Tuesday, June 20

Trump's Apprenticeships Based On a Problem That Doesn't Exist

Mark Thoma, TFT

The Decline of the Baronial Chief Executive Officer

Nelson Schwartz, New York Times

Without Travis Kalanick, There's No Uber...And There's No Lyft

John Tamny, RCM

The Fed: Can World's Biggest S&L Get Back to Normal?

Alex Pollock, Law and Liberty

We Need to Bust Government's Monopoly on Money

Richard Rahn, Washington Times

Treasury's Bank Plan Tightens Regulations by Loosening Them

Aaron Brown, BBW

How Amazon Is Changing Whole Concept of Monopoly

Alex Shephard, New Republic

Conglomerates Didn't Die. They Look Like AMZN

Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times

Don't Bail Out Illinois, Let It Own Its Irresponsibility

Editorial, Investor's Business Daily

Another Part of Real Estate Market Is Beginning to Weaken

John Coumarianos, MW

It's Time For Investors to End Their Wishful Trump Thinking

Stan Collender, Forbes

It's Time to Disrupt Existing Hospital Business Model

Stuart Butler, RealClearMarkets

Riches unto Death: Poverty's the Lack of More Than Money

Micah Meadowcraft, NR

What 'The Fountainhead' Illustrates About Toxic Corporate Culture

Eric Arthur, FEE

Wednesday, June 21

Tax Data Telling An Entirely Different Economic Story

Jed Graham, Investor's Business

In This Part of Midwest, There Are Too Many Jobs

Danielle Paquette, Washington Post

In the Laboratories of IN and RI, Reform Becomes Possible

Steve Forbes, Forbes

Punishing Barclays for 2008 Would Be Strange Justice

Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg

Stocks Don't Become Less Risky the Longer You Hold On

Mair Statman, MarketWatch

How to Protect Yourself from False Investment Claims

Mark Hulbert, USA Today

How a Savings Change Could Give You Much Earlier Retirement

Daniel Sparks, MF

The Fashion Industry Depends on Immigrants Like Me

Diane von Furstenberg, USAT

We Could Have Had Cellphones 40 Years Ago

Thomas Hazlett, Fdn. for Econ. Education

Climbing Further Down Into Airline Hell, Year by Year

Joe Nocera, Bloomberg View

Trump Tried to Strong-Arm Ford, and It Expanded In China

Allan Golombek, RCM

Trump Takes Steps to Undo Obama Legacy on Labor

Noam Scheiber, New York Times

Trump Reg Reform Could Be Bigger Deal Than Tax Reform

Wayne Brough, Spectator

How the Trump Administration Will Privatize Our Infrastructure

David Dayen,Nation

Thursday, June 22

High Fees, Low Returns: Hedge Funds Are the Ultimate Survivors

Barry Ritholtz, BV

Could the Housing Market Meltdown Happen Again?

Terry Jones, Investor's Business

Economic Realities Have Pushed GOOG Into Housing

Daniel Gross, Strategy+Business

The American People Are Living As Large As Ever

Stephen Mihm, Bloomberg View

What Do You Give the Wolf of Wall Street for His Birthday?

Thomas Craughwell, TAS

Let Us Plunge Into Our Fast-Unfolding Economic Future

George Will, National Review

Books: Jared Meyer's 'How Progressive Cities Fight Innovation'

John Tamny, RCM

What Travis Kalanick Leaves Behind at Uber

Reeves Wiedeman, New York Magazine

Don't Repeal NAFTA, Just Bring It Into 21st Century

Steve Simchak, RealClearMarkets

Trade 'Deficits' Signal Immense Investor Interest In the U.S.

Donald Boudreaux, PTR

How Much Is Saudi Aramco Really Worth? It Depends

Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes

With CA Budgeting, the Dems Have Pseudo-Dictatorial Powers

Carson Bruno, RCM

Gov't Has Rationalized a Lot of Dubious Lending

Robert Samuelson, Washington Post

Thoughts on Why Some Cryptocurrencies Fail, and Others Don't

Larry White, FEE

United Video Causing Longer-Term Crisis in Airline Community

Sam Jefferies, IBD

How the Pill Made the American Economy Great

Bryce Covert, The New Republic

Mistress-Dispellers: China's Boom Creates a Whole New Industry

Jiayang Fan, TNY

Friday, June 23

Thoughts on Why the Stock Market Keeps Going Up, Up, Up

Charles Gasparino, NYP

Burton Malkiel: Straying from His Index-Fund Gospel

James Stewart, New York Times

Is It Possible for Investors to Outlast the Stock Market?

Wayne Duggan, U.S. News

The Stock Market's Advance Narrows, a Worrying Sign

Doug Kass, RealMoney

Forget Equities, Bonds Are Where the Real Action Is

Jeffrey Snider, RealClearMarkets

Donald Trump Hiring Crisis Means the Feds Have No Talent

Brian Klaas, USA Today

The Senate Health Care Bill Really Is Meaner Than House's

Jordan Weissmann, Slate

So, You Want a Swiss-Style Health-Care System?

Kevin Williamson, National Review

Just As Downtowns Reinvented Themselves, So Can Malls

Conor Sen, Bloomberg

When "Helicopter Parents" Hover, Even in Workplace

Noam Scheiber, New York Times

How Traditional Econ. Models Must Account for Emotions

Milton Ezrati, City Journal

Nat'l Tax Reformers Should Look to Alaska for Landmines

William Shughart, RCM

Kalanick's Legacy Is One of Brilliance

Robert Colvile, Foundation for Economic Education

The CEO That Uber Needs Was Forced Out the Other Day

Megan McArdle, Bloomberg

Saturday, June 24

Ronaldo May Leave Real Madrid, and Spain's High Taxes

Steven Malanga, City Journal

San Bernardino Exits Bankruptcy, But More Distress Is Ahead

Steven Greenhut, TAS

Austin's Impressively Failed War Against Uber

Mark Hemingway, The Weekly Standard

Puerto Rico's Actions Will Make Future Borrowing Difficult

Ike Brannon, Investor's

Does Passive Investing Surely Herald the Decline of Active?

Justin Fox, Bloomberg

Economic Growth Can't Be Captured by Numbers

Charles Baird, Fdn. for Econ. Education

Jeffrey Gundlach Talks Robots, Stocks, Culture

Amanda Gordon & John Gittelsohn, BV

Critics Of The Senate Health Bill Aren't Playing Fair

Editorial, Investor's Business Daily

The Slow, Secret Death of the 6 String Electric Guitar

Geoff Edgers, Washington Post

Would You Trust Tom Selleck w/Your Life Savings?

Joanne Kaufman, New York Times

Is $1 Million Really Enough to Fund Luxury Retirement?

Wendy Connick, Motley Fool

Want to Be Green? Forget Mass Transit, Work at Home

Joel Kotkin,Los Angeles Times